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AuthorAID is the name given to a number of initiatives that provide support to researchers from developing countries in preparing academic articles for publication in peer-reviewed journals. Phyllis Freeman and (Anthony Robbins ), co-editors of the ''(Journal of Public Health Policy (JPHP) )'', first suggested the name and concept in 2004 and published "Closing the ‘publishing gap’ between rich and poor" about AuthorAID on the Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net),〔() Science and Development Network〕 in 2005.〔Freeman P, Robbins A. (Closing the ‘publishing gap’ between rich and poor. ) ‘‘SciDev.Net’’ 2 September 2005. Accessed 4 May 2008〕 Development aid programs of international organizations, industrial countries, and charitable foundations have invested in strengthening research capacity in developing countries to help those countries solve their own problems. Scientists from developing countries, however, remain under-represented as authors in the published scientific literature. AuthorAID was proposed because unless research results from authors anywhere are available through publication, the full benefit of investment in research is not achieved. AuthorAID programs engage senior scientists and author’s editors〔Shashok K. (Author’s editors: facilitators of science information transfer. ) ''Learned Publishing'' 2001; 14(2): 113-121. Accessed 1 April 2008〕 as mentors to help developing country researchers overcome barriers to publication in scientific journals. The internet connects mentors and authors where it is not possible to have face-to-face contact. The funded AuthorAID program at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications also organizes workshops in various developing countries,〔Walker J. (The AuthorAID project at INASP: building on a holistic approach to research communication. ) ''Serials'' 2009;22(3):220-223. Accessed 4 July 2012〕 in addition to hosting an online mentoring scheme and e-resources.〔() AuthorAID at INASP. Supporting developing country researchers in publishing their work〕 AuthorAID at INASP is independent of the other AuthorAID programs and is described below. == The problem == Scientific research is conducted all over the world, and increasingly in developing countries. In an effort to help countries solve problems and speed development, development aid has been invested in research capacity, notably by Sweden〔() Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency〕 and Canada.〔() International Development Research Centre〕 The results of this research must be available through publication to be useful in economic development and to other researchers. Yet only an extremely small fraction of the scientific literature is written by developing world authors, even in fields such as health and environmental studies, where it is universally recognized that the world’s dominant problems manifest themselves in developing regions.〔 An analysis, published in ‘‘Science’’ in 2005, of 4061 health-related journals from 1992 to 2001 showed a growing gap in scientific publications between low-income countries and the rest of the world.〔 Similarly, Athula Sumathipala and her colleagues found under-representation of developing world authors in leading medical journals such as the ''BMJ'', ''Lancet'', ''New England Journal of Medicine'', ''Annals of Internal Medicine'', and ''JAMA'', in 1999 and 2000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「AuthorAID」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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