Re: Free download

Originally Posted by
Jeff
I would hope that the BNF was part of
Washington DC Principles fo Free Access to Science
or something similar and allow free downloads to poorer countries.
The same should go for any other publication that our society has a hand in.
It's probably a false hope.
Jeff
You can create a BNF online account from a number of 'the poorest countries' but many who are still poor do not benefit, its done by IP address similar to the way NHS access is controlled so obviously can get aroud it or be denied acess if you use a proxy server. I think there are details on Enabling Cookies: BNF.org but not sure if you can see them from in the UK as it allows any UK ip address to create an account.
It used to work in Zimbabwe when the internet worked: very useful but due to connectivity issues not very reliable.
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