Nonprofit Academic Permission Request

[Jennifer Mills]

subject: Nonprofit Academic Permission Request

to: gramene at gramene.org   

body: 

Dear unknown:

After reviewing Gramene: A Comparative Mapping Resource for Grains,
published on the internet at http://www.gramene.org/, the WiderNet Project
would like to ask your permission to include this web content in the
eGranary Digital Library. Before you decide, please let us tell you about
The WiderNet Project and the eGranary Digital Library.

The WiderNet Project, a non-profit organization, aims to improve digital
communication and access to information for students and scholars in
developing countries. You can find more information about the WiderNet
Project at http://www.widernet.org. 

Many of the institutions we work with do not have Internet connections or
have slow, unreliable and very expensive service. Often, professors and
students must pay per minute while online and it literally takes days to
search a website. The eGranary Digital Library delivers digital information
directly to Web servers inside the institution, bypassing the problem. With
the eGranary Digital Library, students and scholars access the information
over their local area networks quickly and at no cost. 

If you consent, your materials will appear in the eGranary Digital Library
without modification, retaining all citations, copyright information, author
information, and credits - exactly as they appear on the Internet now. You
can find more information about the eGranary Digital Library, including a
list of authors and organizations already donating materials, at
http://www.widernet.org/digitallibrary.

Specifically, we would like permission to:

-- Mirror (copy) the following materials for future versions of the eGranary
Digital Library:

--http://www.gramene.org/ 

--Distribute the Internet content you donate to participating educational
institutions via hard drive installation and/or satellite transmission (when
that becomes available), 

--Allow project participants to make your materials available to their
educational community without cost, via their intranets (but not on the
Internet,)

--Create an archive copy of your material on our password-protected intranet
server (for use in the event that your publicly available link ceases to
function.)

 

Please reply directly to this email, and tell us if you give: 

FULL PERMISSION (Donate requested materials and updates as they become
available)

PARTIAL PERMISSION (Donate only materials that you specify, or limit our
delivery of your content to only hard drive installation or only satellite
transmission.)

NO PERMISSION (Prefer not to help institutions in developing countries at
this time.)


We hope that you will join our efforts to provide students and scholars
around the world with access to educational information and resources.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Mills

jenn at widernet.org

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The WiderNet Project 
University of Iowa 
226 International Center
Iowa City, IA 52242 

USA
tel: (319) 335-2200 
fax: (319) 335-0820

 

 

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