The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (aRDi) programme provides free online access to major scientific and technical journals to local, not-for-profit institutions in the least-developed countries as well as low-cost access to industrial property offices in developing countries across the world.
The result of a public private partnership aRDi is administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with a number of publishers including Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Royal Society of Chemistry, Sage Publications, Springer and Taylor & Francis.
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