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LONDON, November 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 18,000 resources available to the developing world via the HINARI, AGORA, OARE, and ARDI programs The Research4Life [http://www.research4life.org ] partners announced today that they have agreed to extend their partnership through 2020. Research4Life ( http://www.research4life.org) currently provides over 6,000 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low...

AMSTERDAM, September 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, now offers its entire collection of books and journals on its online platform ScienceDirect, as well as access to its abstracts and citation database Scopus to innovators in 105 countries for free or little cost through the ARDI [http://www.wipo.int/ardi/en ] (Access to...

A 17-year investigation into the discovery of the fragile remains of a small "ground ape" discovered in Ethiopia is described today in a special issue of the journal Science.The report includes 11 papers about the discovery of the Ardipithecus fossils, which include a partial skeleton of a female nicknamed "Ardi", the earliest known skeleton from the human branch of the primate family tree.  The branch includes Homo sapiens as well as species closer to humans than to...