UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS LAUNCHES CHICAGO EMERGING NATIONS INITIATIVE

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For Embargoed Release: November 1, 2006
Contact: Suzanne Wu / 773-834-0386 / swu@press.uchicago.edu

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS LAUNCHES CHICAGO EMERGING NATIONS INITIATIVE

CENI provides journals in a wide range of disciplines to 
institutions in developing nations

The University of Chicago Press is delighted to announce the 
launch of the Chicago Emerging Nations Initiative (CENI), 
facilitating scholarship throughout the world with free or 
very-low-cost subscriptions to the University of Chicago Press 
portfolio of journals. A program of partnerships with select 
not-for-profit organizations, CENI ensures that readers at higher 
education and research institutions in more than 110 low- and 
lower-middle-income nations receive access to vital journals 
content in a wide range of disciplines.

"The University of Chicago Press is committed to broadening 
access to knowledge and strengthening the intellectual exchange 
on which it thrives," says Licensing and Permissions Manager Kate 
Duff. "In light of rapidly improving technological 
infrastructures, CENI helps our colleagues worldwide connect to 
the research and data they need to join a vibrant, informed 
conversation about important intellectual ideas."

Participation in CENI -- which provides both print subscriptions 
and electronic access -- will replace the University of Chicago 
Press' B rates, greatly expanding the number of journals 
available for free or little cost to institutions in low- and 
lower-middle-income nations. Individual scholars in emerging 
nations remain eligible for a discount to the individual 
subscription price.

By offering access to scholarship in the social sciences, 
physical sciences, humanities, and biological and medical 
sciences, CENI reflects the University of Chicago's long-standing 
support of communication among and across traditional 
disciplines. Organizations providing journal content published by 
the University of Chicago Press to eligible institutions in 
developing nations include Access to Global Online Research in 
Agriculture (AGORA), founded by the United Nation's Food and 
Agriculture Organization; the Association of Commonwealth 
Universities Low-Cost Journals Scheme; the Health InterNetwork 
Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), sponsored by the World 
Health Organization; JSTOR's Open Africa Initiative; and the New 
School for Social Research's Journals Donation Program.

The University of Chicago Press is also proud to be a founding 
partner of the newly launched Online Access to Research in the 
Environment (OARE) program. For more information on CENI and its 
partners, or to recommend the program to a colleague, please 
visit www.journals.uchicago.edu/CENI.

About the University of Chicago Press: Founded in 1891, the 
University of Chicago Press is the largest American university 
press. The Journals Division currently publishes forty-seven 
award-winning periodicals and serials in a wide range of 
disciplines, including several journals that were the first 
scholarly publications in their respective fields. Online since 
1995, the Journals Division has also been a pioneer in electronic 
publishing, delivering original, peer-reviewed research from 
international scholars to a worldwide audience.

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