New free online services launched
The content of the charity's leading information website Down Syndrome
Online is now freely available under an Open Access licence.
Free access to reliable information on Down syndrome
A key element of the charity's recently announced
Strategy for 2007-2012
is a new 'Open Access' publishing initiative. This will offer free
access to all of the charity's research papers, books, teaching materials
and more for families, education and health professionals and
researchers.
Through this initiative, the charity aims to share its accurate,
reliable, up-to-date and evidence-based information as widely as
possible, to benefit the maximum number of beneficiaries worldwide.
As a result, the charity's extensive
Down Syndrome Online
website at will be getting even bigger.
The charity's online resources are already among the most extensive on the
World Wide Web. Now we are adding even more content to better inform
families, teachers, other professionals and researchers about effective
intervention techniques and the latest research.
And for the first time, most of these materials will be freely available
under an 'Open Access' licence that will permit individuals and
organisations to freely copy and re-distribute the information subject
to certain restrictions.
Converting the charity's leading catalogue of printed materials, books and
journals will be a major undertaking, that will take significant time
and funding.
We plan to add this new, free content to the
Down Syndrome Online
website web
site over the coming months, although the speed with which we will be
able to do this is subject to securing the necessary funding.
If you think you can help finance this important new work, please let us
know.
New grant kick-starts conversion
The Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation has provided a perfect start to the
Trust's new 'Open Access' initiative by recently awarding a grant of
£10,000. Click here to find out
more...
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