Providing Access to Those Who Need It Most

May 21, 2015 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Providing Access to Those Who Need It Most

INASP is a registered UK charity that works to support global research communication through innovation, networking and capacity strengthening, focusing on the needs of developing and emerging countries. They work with publishers to enable affordable and sustainable access to online resources to developing countries and with national library consortia or equivalent to help them meet the information needs of researchers. This interesting information came to us from Information Today Europe in their article, “INASP: publishers must engage responsibly with developing-world libraries.”

Affordable access to research is still a major challenge. INASP works with library consortia or other national bodies to ensure that researchers and students have the journals and books they need. I, for one, am inspired by the efforts to strengthen research and higher education systems across Africa, Asia and Latin America. 

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.