Through Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), a new international public-private partnership, the world?s most prestigious scientific publishers, societies and associations are now offering one of the world?s largest collections of peer-reviewed natural and environmental science literature to more than 1500 national institutions in 106 least-developed nations of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.

Launched October 30, 2006 in New York, OARE has a mission to improve the quality and effectiveness of natural and environmental science research, education and training in low-income countries. In doing so, OARE will help achieve four primary development objectives:

Growth in the number of national scholars and experts who will, through their knowledge and reputation, integrate into and facilitate the development of more progressive science-driven policy development processes, regulatory frameworks, and governance structures.

Strengthen the intellectual foundation of universities and research institutions so as to enable faculty to perform research on a par with peers in industrialized countries, develop their own publishing record, and enable students to conduct research and seek education in new and emerging subjects.

Build the capacity of independent national organizations to gather, interpret, and disseminate and use global scientific research. Local rather than foreign organizations will engage/empower end-users of information.

The average annual US institutional subscription fee of each title provided through OARE is approximately $1,500. Each institution enrolled in OARE will receive access to more than 1200 serial titles and search engines with a US annual retail subscription value of more than $1 million. The total US annual retail subscription value of scholarly literature and scientific search engines to be provided through OARE to all enrolled institutions is more than $200 million per year.

Research is provided in a wide range of disciplines, including biotechnology, biology, botany, climate change, wildlife conservation, ecology, energy, environmental chemistry, environmental economics, environmental engineering and planning, environmental law and policy, environmental toxicology and pollution, forest and fisheries sciences, geography and population studies, geology, meteorology, natural disaster prevention, natural resource management, oceanography, urban planning, water and hydrology, zoology, and many others. In addition to obtaining direct access to vast quantities of scientific findings, developing countries will be provided access to the world?s most powerful scientific abstract and information databases and indexes, critical intellectual tools the scientific community uses to identify information located in tens of thousands of articles across thousands of international publications.

Major Groups:
International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
CSIRO PUBLISHING (Australia)
Science in China Press (China)
Terra Scientific Publishing Company (Japan)
Elsevier Science (Netherlands)
Springer Science+Business Media. (Netherlands)
BMJ Publishing Group (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Blackwell Publishing (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Cambridge University Press (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Company of Biologists, The (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
EBSCO Publishing (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
John Wiley & Sons (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Nature Publishing Group (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Public Library of Science (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Sage Publishing (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Taylor & Francis (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
United Kingdom Serials Group (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Vathek Publishing (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Annual Reviews (United States of America)
BioMed Central (United States of America)
Bioline International (United States of America)
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (United States of America)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (United States of America)
Environmental Information Coalition (United States of America)
Horizon International (United States of America)
Johns Hopkins University Press (United States of America)
Landes Bioscience (United States of America)
MIT Press (United States of America)
MedKnow Publishers (United States of America)
Thomson Scientific (United States of America)
University of Chicago Press (United States of America)

UN System::
United Nations Environment Programme (Kenya)
Food and Agriculture Organization (Italy)
World Health Organization (WHO) (Switzerland)
Other intergovernmental organizations:

Other:
Yale University (United States of America)
Association of Australian Palaeontologists (AAP) (Australia)
Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (Australia)
Australian Entomological Society (Australia)
Australian Society for Parasitology (Australia)
Ecological Society of Australia (Australia)
Geological Society of Australia (GSA) (Australia)
Institute of Australian Geographers Inc. (Australia)
International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC) (Belgium)
International Association for Mathematical Geology (Canada)
International Association of Sedimentologists (Canada)
National Research Council Canada (Canada)
l'Association canadienne des géographes (Canada)
Beijing Forestry University (China)
Botanical Society of China (China)
Chinese Society of Agriculture Engineers (China)
Entomological Society of China (China)
Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (IBCB), Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Zhejiang University (China)
Institute of Experimental Botany,Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
African Development Bank (Côte d'Ivoire)
Federation of European Biochemical Societies (Denmark)
International Association of Geodesy (Denmark)
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (Denmark)
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (Denmark)
Scandinavian Physiological Society (Denmark)
Scandinavian Society for Plant Physiology (Denmark)
Veterinary Associations of the Nordic Countries (Denmark)
International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) (Finland)
Académie des Sciences de France (France)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France)
European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (France)
French Society of Plant Physiology (SFPV) (France)
Institut Pasteur (France)
International Organization for Biological Control of Noxious Animals and Plants (IBOC) (France)
Societe francaise de Biochimie et Biologie Moleculaire (SFBBM) (France)
Société Française de Chimie (SFC) (France)
Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (Germany)
Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft (Germany)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Meeresforschung (Germany)
Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft e.V. (Germany)
Deutschen Wissenschaftliche Kommission für Internationale Meeresforschung (DWK) (Germany)
Deutscher Verband für Angewandte Geographie (Germany)
Deutschsprachige Mykologische Gesellschaft (Germany)
Eidgenössische Anstalt für Wasserversorgung (Germany)
Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. (Germany)
European Association Of Development Research (Germany)
Geologische Vereinigung (Germany)
Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) (Germany)
Institute of Paleontology, Erlangen University (Germany)
International Mine Water Association (IMWA) (Germany)
Stiftung Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (Germany)
World Sturgeon Conservation Society (WSCS) (Germany)
European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia (Greece)
Akadémiai Kiadó (Hungary)
Indian Association of Medical Microbiology (India)
Indian Association of Occupational Health (India)
International Association of Volcanology & Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (Israel)
Societa Botanica Italiana (Italy)
Societa Italiana di Biologia Marina onlus (Italy)
Società Italiana di Statistica (Italy)
Stazione Zoologica di Napoli (Italy)
Unione Zoologica Italiana (Italy)
Mycological Society of Japan (Jamaica)
Botanical Society of Japan (Japan)
Ecological Society of Japan (Japan)
Entomological Society of Japan (Japan)
Geological Society of Japan (Japan)
Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (Japan)
International Consortium of Landscape and Ecological Engineering (ICLEE) (Japan)
International Consortium of Landslides (Japan)
International Lake Environment Committee (ILEC) (Japan)
International Society for Economic Theory (Japan)
Japan Association for Quaternary Research (Japan)
Japan Ethological Society (Japan)
Japan Society of Waste Management Experts (Japan)
Japanese Association of Forensic Toxicology (Japan)
Japanese Association of Mineralogists, Petrologists and Economic Geologists (Japan)
Japanese Forest Society (Japan)
Japanese Monkey Centre (Japan)
Japanese Photochemistry Association (Japan)
Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists (Japan)
Japanese Society of Fisheries Oceanography (Japan)
Japanese Society of Fisheries Science (Japan)
Japanese Society of Grassland Science (Japan)
Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Reclamation Engineering (Japan)
Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy (Japan)
Japanese Society of Phycology (Japan)
Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (Japan)
Oceanographic Society of Japan (OSJ) (Japan)
Palaeontological Society of Japan (Japan)
Phytopathological Society of Japan (Japan)
Primate Society of Japan (Japan)
Showa Foundation for Economic Research (Japan)
Society for the Study of Species Biology (Japan)
Society of Population Ecology (Japan)
Society of Resource Geology (Japan)
Tokyo International University (Japan)
Weed Science Society of Japan (Japan)
East African Wildlife Society (Kenya)
European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (Netherlands)
European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) (Netherlands)
European Weed Research Society (Netherlands)
Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (Netherlands)
Koninklijke Nederladse Plantenziektenkundige Vereniging te Wageningen (Netherlands)
Netherlands Entomological Society (Netherlands)
Wageningen University (Netherlands)
New Zealand Geographical Society (New Zealand)
International Permafrost Association (IPA) (Norway)
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Norway)
Norwegian Polar Institute (Norway)
Entomological Society of Korea (Republic of Korea)
Korean Society of Agriculture Engineers (Republic of Korea)
Maik Nauka Interperiodica (Russian Federation)
Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation)
Development Bank of Southern Africa (South Africa)
Real Sociedad Espaniola de Qimica (RSEQ) (Spain)
Sociedad Espaniola de Qimica Analitica (SEQA) (Spain)
Nordic Pharmacological Society (Sweden)
Nordic Society OIKOS (Sweden)
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Sweden)
Swedish Geophysical Society (Sweden)
Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (Sweden)
International Organization for Migration (IOM) (Switzerland)
International Society of Matrix Biology (ISMB) (Switzerland)
Schweizerische Botanische Gesellschaft (Switzerland)
Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Ukraine)
Agricultural Economics Society (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Association for the Study of Animal Behavior (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Association of Applied Biologists (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Association of Chemistry and the Environment (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
British Ecological Society (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
British Geomorphological Research Group (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
British Ornithologists' Union (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
British Phycological Society (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
British Society for Plant Pathology (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
British Society of Soil Science (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Chartered Institution of Water and Env. Mgmt. (CIWEM) (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Federation of European Microbiological Societies (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Geological Society of London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Geologists' Association (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Institute for Public Policy Research (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Institute of British Geographers (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Institute of Physics (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
International Association of Hydrogeologists (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
International Development Centre, Oxford U. (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
International Federation for Cell Biology (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
International Peat Society (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
International Society for Animal Genetics (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Linnean Society of London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Mammal Society (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
New Phytologist Trust (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Oxford University, Department of Economics (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Palaeontological Association (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Physiological Society (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Population Geography Research Group (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Quaternary Research Association (QRA) (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Royal Entomological Society (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Royal Geographical Society (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Royal Microscopical Society (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Royal Society of Chemistry (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Royal Statistical Society (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Silsoe Research Institute (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Society for Applied Microbiology (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Zoological Society of London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Academy of Veterinary Technician Anaesthetists (United States of America)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) * (United States of America)
American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Health and Safety (United States of America)
American Feline Practitioners Association (United States of America)
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) (United States of America)
American Microscopical Society (United States of America)
American Physiological Society (United States of America)
American Society of Naturalists (United States of America)
American Society of Plant Biologists (United States of America)
Association of American Geographers (United States of America)
Association of Field Ornithologists (United States of America)
Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists, (United States of America)
Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, SUNYBuffalo (United States of America)
Botanical Society of America (United States of America)
British Grassland Society, (United States of America)
Ecological Society of America (United States of America)
Environmental Research Press (ERP) (United States of America)
International Association for Engineering Geology & the Environment (United States of America)
International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) (United States of America)
International Society of Biometeorology (ISB) (United States of America)
International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) (United States of America)
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (United States of America)
Mitochondria Research Society (United States of America)
National Academy of Sciences, The (United States of America)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (United States of America)
Policy Studies Organization (United States of America)
Population Council (United States of America)
Regional Science Association International (United States of America)
Royal Astronomical Society (United States of America)
Society for Cryobiology (United States of America)
Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) (United States of America)
Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIM) (United States of America)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (United States of America)
Society for Mathematical Biology (United States of America)
Society of Integrative Biology (United States of America)
University of Chicago Law School (United States of America)
University of Chicago, School of Business (United States of America)
Willi Hennig Society (United States of America)
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (United States of America)
World Aquaculture Society (United States of America)
World Association of Veterinary Anatomists (United States of America)
Yale, Center for Industrial Ecology (United States of America)
Information and Training Outreach Center Africa (ITOCA) (Zimbabwe)