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Online Access to Research in the Environment

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.

Over 2,990 peer reviewed titles (as of 4/2009) owned and published by over 340 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies are now available in more than 100 low income countries. Research is provided in a wide range of disciplines, 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; and Zoology & Animal Biodiversity.

NEWS

OARE Impact in Africa: SUMAWA
Research for Life Achieving Sustainable Watersheds: Research4Life’s OARE platform helps researchers in Kenya address local environmental challenges. OARE is an international public-private consortium coordinated by UNEP, Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers. Download and view the video: SUMAWA

2009 New publishers:
We welcome the following new publishers: The American Metereological Association, the Revista Geografica Academica, and the Madagascar Wildlife Conservation.

OARE Band II begins:
37 new countries eligible to access global scientific research through OARE.

Press Release November 6, 2007.

Bridging the Digital Divide:
Publishers Commit to Bring Free and Low Cost Access to Critical Research to the Developing World

Press Release July 2, 2007.

Inaugural Training,
Sergio de Mello Library at UNEP organizes first OARE training in Kenya
Press Release Jun 5, 2007 .

Launch of OARE
Hewlett and MacArthur help 300 partner organizations launch OARE in New York

Press Release October 30, 2006.

Discourses on OARE
Listen to some of our partners talk about OARE

:: Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UNEP - [mp3 1.6M]
:: James Gustave Speth, Dean of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies - [wma 451k]
:: Jonathan F. Fanton, President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation - [mp3 1M]


JOIN THE OARE NETWORK

If you are interested in receiving information about free training opportunities through OARE, please send an e-mail to oare@oaresciences.org indicating that you would like to be added to our communications network. In your message, please remember to include your name, the country in which you are residing, your preferred e-mail address, and the name of the institution with which you are associated.

FEEDBACK FROM USERS

"OARE will greatly improve scientific environmental research in developing countries and contribute to more effective policies and actions to safeguard our natural resources. We congratulate you for this outstanding initiative."

Programa de Asuntos Internacionales y Biodiversidad
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental, Peru

“Thank you very much. The number and quality of information we can now access is just incredible. Nowhere in this part of the world could we have found so much information. It will really improve the speed and quality of our work. Thanks again.”

Cameroon Centre for Environment & Development

OARE SUCCESS STORIES

Please share with us how we can improve the effectiveness of our program. We are also interested in stories of how the OARE program has helped your institution achieve its mission. Click here to write to us.



Visit our sister programme HINARI: Access to Research Initiative
Click here to view a brief video about HINARI.


Visit our sister programme Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture


OARE Information Sheet [pdf 142kb]


OARE poster [pdf 915kb]


OARE Leaflet [pdf 1mb]


Contact OARE

OARE
United Nations Environment Programme
P.O. Box 30552
Nairobi, Kenya
Email: adminunep@oaresciences.org


Contact OARE

OARE
Yale University
P.O. Box 207101
New Haven, CT 06520
USA
Fax: 203-432-8527
Email: adminyale@oaresciences.org





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