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Amsterdam, August 27th, 2010 - Elsevier and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam announced on 26th of August the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding providing 150 researchers working in least-developed and low-income countries with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus...The new agreement will expand access for five years while sharing best practice in research and training...read more
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