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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’s “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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