Washington, D.C. and Warsaw, Poland: The Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM), University of Warsaw, has partnered with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in a national site licensing agreement to provide 922 research and scientific institutions throughout Poland with site-wide access to Science , the flagship publication of AAAS.
The ICM is coordinating a program entitled "Virtual Library of Science" which is aimed at providing the academic community in Poland with access to basic scientific databases and e-journals. The program is funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland. As part of this program, the national academic site license to Science will provide site-wide access to all institutions in Poland which are entitled to benefit from the budget of the Ministry, including, public and private higher education schools, Polish Academy of Sciences, the research and development institutes and other institutions with the official scientific status in Poland.
Professor Marek Niezgódka, Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, emphasizes that "access to Science , which is open to all researchers and students in Poland within the "Virtual Library of Science" program, is a key component of the national scientific competitiveness policy."
"International research cooperation has become an increasingly critical step toward addressing global issues, from climate change to disease prevention and food security," says Bruce Alberts, Science Editor-in-Chief. "I'm delighted that Science will be able to provide Poland's leading scientific institutions with improved access to peer-reviewed research, thanks to this new partnership."
Science is a leading weekly general scientific journal, publishing original research, commentary and breaking science news. A site license to the online version of Science magazine provides access to the journal from 1997 through the current issue. To access Science Online, visit ScienceOnline.org.
About the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM) of the University of Warsaw is the leading scientific high-end computing centre in Poland. Beyond serving the whole academic community within the country by offering multi-level services and advanced infrastructure, ICM has developed high-rank competence in new concepts of distributed data processing and large-scale computing within grid technology paradigms. http://www.icm.edu.pl/web/guest/home
About AAAS
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journals Science (ScienceOnline.org), Science Signaling (ScienceSignaling.org), and Science Translational Medicine (ScienceTranslationalMedicine.org). AAAS was founded in 1848, and serves 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, reaching 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million. The non-profit AAAS (AAAS.org) is open to all and fulfills its mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert! (EurekAlert.org), the premier science-news website, a service of AAAS.