Elsevier is proud to be one of the founding health publishers of   HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative), a UN-based initiative providing online access to the major journals of the biomedical and related social science fields, without charge, to public institutions in developing countries.

• Elsevier is the largest contributor and provides over 1,000 journal titles.
  
  
• In 2006, 1.45 million downloads were made from Elsevier journals, representing 35% of the over 4 million downloads made through the entire HINARI collection.

Inspired by HINARI's success, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization established   AGORA (Access to Global Online R esearch in Agriculture) – providing researchers, policy makers, educators, technical workers and extension specialists with access to high quality information in agriculture and related fields.

• Elsevier is one of AGORA's founding publishers and provides over 1,000 titles to the program. 
  
  
• Since the launch of AGORA, ScienceDirect has experienced significant growth in usage. In 2006, there were over 140,000 downloads for 1,100 registered institutions.

Through   OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment), a new global partnership was launched in October 2006. Managed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Yale University in association with the International Association of Science, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), 35 leading science and technology publishers and 100 of the world’s most prestigious scientific societies, associations, and foundations.

• Provides access to 375 public and non-profit institutions in more than 49 of the poorest countries to over 1,000 peer-reviewed journals in the environmental sciences.