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Science and Development Network
News, views and information about science, technology and the developing world
Definitions
List of terms for Science publishing
Scientific information is crucial for a variety of stakeholders, but communicating science poses a challenge for all.
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Differential pricing
A policy of selling products, such as journal subscriptions, at different prices to different users according to how much they can afford. Several publishers offer differential pricing according to a country's gross national product per capita through schemes such as the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) [link: http://www.who.int/hinari/en/] and Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA). [link: http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/]
Digital divide
The disparity between the rich and the poor in their access to computers, digital information, and the benefits these make possible.
[Source: Guide to the open access movement [link: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/guide.htm] , Peter Suber]
Information Services
Reporting risk: what can we learn from Vietnam?
There is much to learn from Vietnamese approaches to reporting science and risk, says Son Kim Phan
PCST conference blog
Daily insights from the tenth public communication of science conference in Sweden
