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July 12, 2010US-IRAQ: Keys to a digital revolution
Five Years Later, an Ambitious Virtual Library is Turned Over to Iraqi Researchers and Scholars
In sign of Growth, Iraqi Scientists Now downloading 30,000 Papers Each Month
After years of conflict that has wreaked havoc on Iraqi higher education and research, scientists and scholars in the country appear to be slowly rebuilding Iraq's scientific enterprise. One sign, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials, is the rising number of papers published by Iraqi researchers, which went up from a miniscule 80 publications in 2005 to 250 in 2008. Another indicator is the nearly 30,000 papers being downloaded every month from the Iraq Virtual Science Library, a Web portal created in May 2006 to give Iraqi researchers and students free access to thousands of journals.
Iraq Receives Control of Online Science Library
As Americans work toward a military handoff to full Iraqi control, they are making an intellectual handoff as well. Iraqi people today gained control of an online library built in 2006 to bolster the country's scientific research.