About OARE

Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world’s largest collections of environmental science research.

Launched in October 2006, OARE has a mission to improve the quality and effectiveness of environmental science research, education and training in low-income countries. In doing so, OARE seeks to support the efforts of low income countries to achieve the following four development objectives:

• Build the capacity of environmental professionals to manage fragile ecosystems, protect human health, and manage natural renewable resources more sustainably.
• Build the capacity of national experts to facilitate – through their knowledge and reputation – the development of more progressive, science-driven state policies, regulatory frameworks, and governance structures.
• Strengthen the intellectual foundation of universities so as to enable scientists to conduct scientific research on a par with peers in industrialized countries and establish their own publishing record; help faculty to better educate the next generation of leaders; and enable students to seek education in new and emerging scientific disciplines.
• Build the capacity of local media to gather and disseminate to the public new scientific knowledge of importance to the welfare of developing nations.

Many organizations are participating in the OARE consortium. Partners providing scientific content through the program include the world's leading publishing houses and the world's most prestigious scientific societies and associations. Today, over 1,300 peer-reviewed scientific journal titles owned and published by over 340 OARE partners are now available in 107 eligible low income countries.

Research in a wide range of disciplines is available through OARE, including Biology; Biotechnology, Genetics & Genetically Modified Species; Botany & Plant Biodiversity; Climatology, Climate Change & Meteorology; Ecology & Wildlife Conservation; Energy Conservation & Renewable Energy; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental & Natural Resource Economics; Environmental Engineering; Environmental Law, Policy & Planning; Fish & Fisheries; Forests & Forestry; Geography, Population Studies & Migration; Geology & Earth Sciences; Natural Environmental Disasters; Oceanography & Marine Biology; Pollution & Environmental Toxicology; Satellite & Remote Sensing Technologies; Soil Sciences and Desertification; Waste Management; Water, Hydrology & Wetlands; Zoology & Animal Biodiversity. OARE also provides access to important Abstract and Index Research Databases (A&I Databases), intellectual search tools that scientific and professional communities around the world use to search for articles on specific topics within thousands of scientific publications.

OARE leverages proven information and communication technologies, recent digitization of vast quantities of proprietary scientific literature, and an international public-private co-operative structure to help reduce the North-South scientific gap, an objective of both the United Nations Agenda and Millennium Development Goals (MDG's), with unparalleled efficiency and scale. The OARE portal is built and managed in close cooperation with HINARI, an initiative launched by the World Health Organization and Yale providing scientific research to the medical and health community, and AGORA, an initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization and Cornell University providing scientific research to the agricultural community.

Enabled by technology and guided by shared vision, the OARE consortium is increasing in the number and diversity of its participating organizations and in the richness of its scientific holdings. The partners encourage developing-country organizations to explore the resources available in OARE, and encourage institutions interested in joining the consortium to contact them to learn more about how they can contribute to the OARE mission and UN millennium development goals.

Discourses on OARE

PASSWORDS and REGISTRATION

Institutions that would like to access full-text articles and use OARE search tools must register with OARE and receive an institutional user name and password. Upon successful completion of the registration process, all employees, staff, faculty, administrators and students of that institution should be provided the name and password so that they may access OARE resources directly. A user name and password are not required to access journal abstracts, but they are required to access the full-text articles and search tools.

USING OARE

Users can find basic guidance on how to access and use scholarly resources available through OARE in the Using OARE section of the website.