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Research4Life: reducing the scientific knowledge gap

Discover how Research4Life, including programs like Hinari, OARE, ARDI, AGORA, and GOALI, is reducing the scientific knowledge gap in low-income countries by providing free or low-cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.

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Research4Life: reducing the scientific knowledge gap

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  1. Research4Life: reducing the scientific knowledge gap Dakar, September 2019

  2. Research4Life: Hinari, OARE, ARDI, AGORA and GOALI • Who can access Research4Life? • ACE centre access and use • IP-based access • Retrieving a full-text article • Related initiatives

  3. Challenges of many libraries in low-income countries • Lack of access to current scientific literature • No budget for important peer-reviewed journals • Up-to-date research needed for discovering evidence, sharing findings, and informing teaching, practice and public policy • Research4Life can help …. if known.

  4. What is Research4Life? Collective name for five programmes – Hinari, AGORA, OARE, ARDI and GOALI – that provide developing countries with free or low-cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online. A public-private partnership of WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, ILO, Cornell and Yale Universities, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and up to 155 international publishers.

  5. Access to leading academic publishers

  6. Research4Life at a glance More than 8,900 institutions Up to 155 publishers More than 120 countries

  7. Programmes • Hinari (Research for Health), managed by WHO • AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture), managed by FAO • OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment), managed by UNEP • ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation), managed by WIPO • GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information), managed by ILO

  8. Eligibility Group A Countries Group B Countries Free Access Low-cost Access

  9. Who can register for Research4Life? • national universities • professional schools (medicine, agriculture, pharmacy, public health, engineering, etc.) • research institutes • teaching hospitals and healthcare centers • government offices • national libraries • agricultural extension centers and • local non-governmental organizations.

  10. The value of Research4Life An average journal subscription costs approx*: US$ 1,731 Research4Life provides access up to: 20,000 journals** Total monetary value provided to each institution: up to US$ 34,620,000 * Based on LJ Periodicals Price Survey 2017 https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=new-world-same-model-periodicals-price-survey-2017 **Publishers have the option to choose whether provide access or not to specific content in specific countries

  11. Most ACE centre institutions registered for Research4Life • Most universities are registered • Most ACE centre countries have free access (except Nigeria) HOWEVER • Not all universities share credentials across faculties • Some ACE centres do not know they have access • Usage statistics could be higher • Librarians often gatekeepers: ask them! Or us! It is OK to share the Research4Life credentials with colleagues, students, professors or other members of the institution (not outside your institution)

  12. IP-based access • Improves access to R4L • No login with password needed on campus • Register the IP address in the IPRegistry (theipregistry.org) • Registration at IPRegistry is free for all libraries. • Once registered in the IPRegistry, send your request for IP registration to r4l@research4life.org • Several ACE centres have implemented this

  13. Temporary guest access login.research4life.org user name: ag-sen011 password: 72f25BSE

  14. Retrieving a full-text article

  15. Article opens up in PDF. Yu can save it or print it.

  16. Google Scholar: add Research4Life as a library link

  17. Registrationhttp://registration.research4life.org

  18. Capacity development Workshops: Research4Life training around the world with the collaboration of UN agencies and university libraries. Now, more online training: Free modules on how to use the different programme platforms, advocacy and information literacy. New Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Research4Life coming late 2019.

  19. Related initiatives: publications and datasets AGRIS agris.fao.org Multilingual bibliographic database with over ten million records, facilitates access to publications, journal articles, monographs, book chapters, and grey literature in agriculture and related sciences. Some full text, some datasets. GARDIANhttps://gardian.bigdata.cgiar.org/ The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture aims to harness of big data capabilities to accelerate and enhance the impact of international agricultural research. Explore over 155,500 publications across CGIAR and beyond: over 19,000 datasets.

  20. Related initiatives UN Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries https://www.un.org/technologybank Helps LDCs build the science, technology and innovation capacity. INASPhttps://www.inasp.info/ Works to strengthen the capacity of individuals and institutions to produce, share and use research and knowledge. Has initiative aimed at improving research access. AuthorAIDhttps://www.authoraid.info/ Support, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in low and middle income countries.

  21. r4l@research4life.org http://www.research4life.org/ Twitter @R4LPartnership AGORA@fao.org http://www.fao.org/agora/ Twitter @AGORA_R4L

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