Publication initiatives: -Supporter and Member
The Journal Donation Project (JDP) was launched by Arien Mack, Marrow Professor of Psychology at the New School's Graduate Faculty in 1990. It aims to rebuild major research and teaching libraries in countries that have fallen victim to political or economic deprivation by working with publishers such as Palgrave Macmillan to provide them with current subscriptions and back issues of academic and research journals.
HINARI Access to Research in Health Programme provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries.
HINARI was launched in January 2002, with some 1500 journals from 6 major publishers: Blackwell, Elsevier Science, the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group, Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science, Springer Verlag and John Wiley, following the principles in a Statement of Intent signed in July 2001. Since that time, the numbers of participating publishers and of journals and other full-text resources has grown continuously. Today more than 150 publisher partners are offering more than 15,000 information resources in HINARI and many others are joining the programme.
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is a charity registered in the UK, concerned with the integrity of peer-reviewed scholarly publications . It was established in 1997 and meets in London but has over 5200 members from all continents. Its membership is composed mostly of Editors-in-Chief of journals, with publishers like Palgrave Macmillan signing up their entire catalogue of journal titles as COPE members.