70-80% of world scientific literature to be available to Armenian scientists till 2015

Yerevan/Mediamax/. From now on, world e-journals and databases will be available to Armenian scientists.

The presentation of “Armenian Virtual Scientific Library” program was held in Yerevan today, Mediamax reports.

“Armenian Virtual Scientific Library” comprises over 3mln articles and over 8 thousand journals of UN Reasearch4Life program.

President of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences Radik Martirosyan noted in his speech that establishment of “Armenian Virtual Scientific Library” is an important initiative as the Armenian scientists currently don’t often have the opportunity to get subscribed for scientific journals.

““Armenian Virtual Scientific Library” will help solve this problem. On the other hand, the resource will boost development of e-journals which are more affordable and interesting as compared to paper ones”.

Chairman of the State Scientific Committee at the Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia Samvel Harutyunyan reported that 70-80% of the world scientific literature will be available to Armenian scientists till 2015. According to him, some measures have already been taken up in this respect and corresponding agreements have already been reached.

“Armenian Virtual Scientific Library” will also allow introducing the Armenian scientific journals to their foreign colleagues”, noted Samvel Harutyunyan.

During the presentation, U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern noted that “we have recently signed a cooperation memorandum which envisages deepening of our cooperation with the Armenian National Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education and Science”.