Open Archiving Opportunities for Developing Countries: towards equitable distribution of global knowledge

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ICT4D | Open Access

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Although the World Wide Web is less than a decade old, it already has had a profound impact on scientific publishing and scholarly communication. In particular, open standards and low-cost networking tools are opening many possibilities for reducing and even eliminating entirely the cost barriers to scientific publications.