What is Research4Life?
Research4Life is the 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.
Research4Life is 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 160 international publishers. The goal of Research4Life is to reduce the knowledge gap between high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries by providing affordable access to scholarly, professional and research information. Since 2002, the five programmes – Research in Health (Hinari), Research in Agriculture (AGORA), Research in the Environment (OARE), Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) and Research for Global Justice (GOALI) – have provided researchers at more than 9,000 institutions in more than 120 low- and middle-income countries with free or low-cost online access to up 100,400 leading journals and books in the fields of health, agriculture, environment, applied sciences and legal information.
Five librarians from Research4Life countries will build capacity in their region
Published: Monday 30th March 2020, Category: News
The Medical Library Association (MLA) and the Elsevier Foundation have announced the recipients of the 2020 MLA Librarians without Borders®/ Elsevier Foundation/ Research4Life Grants. Read all about their projects below.
The grants enable information specialists to provide Research4Life trainings in emerging and low-income countries. The goal is to develop a community of librarians that can continue to train researchers at their institutions and beyond, to make sure researchers in eligible countries are equipped to use Research4Life effectively. The grants are funded by
the Elsevier Foundation.
From playing cricket to supporting health researchers: Research4Life’s user representative talks about his work as a librarian in Nepal
Published: Monday 16th March 2020, Category: Blog
To make sure users’ needs are well-represented, Research4Life has two user representatives. They serve two-year terms and have a crucial role in the Research4Life Advisory Group and Executive Council. Currently, the representatives are Edda Tandi Lwoga from Tanzania and Chandra Bhushan Yadav from Nepal. Earlier this year, Bhushan conducted a Research4Life training in his country – high time for an interview!
research4life eligible institutions of the country:
Research4Life is designed to enhance the scholarship, teaching, research and policy-making of the many thousands of students, faculty, scientists, and medical specialists, focusing on health, agriculture, environment and other life, physical and social sciences in the developing world. It does this by providing free or low-cost online access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content.
Eligible institutions are:
- national universities
- professional schools
- research institutesk
- teaching hospitals and healthcare centers
- government offices
- national libraries
- agricultural extension centers
- local, non-governmental organizations
Meet our new Research4Life user representative Chandra Bhushan Yadav: Research4Life Partners Newsletter May 2017
We’d like to introduce our new user representative Chandra Bhushan Yadav. Mr. Bhushad serves as the Library and Information Officer for the Nepal Health Research Council, a governmental organization that promotes scientific study and quality research. Mr. Bhushan has conducted numerous Hinari training sessions for PhD, MPH, Masters of Pharmacy, Nursing and undergraduate students and health practitioners across health-related academic institutions in Kathmandu and other regions of Nepal. Several of the larger regional workshops have been supported by funding from Research4Life, The World Health Organization, South-East Asia Regional Office – SEARO or Nepal’s National Health Education, Information and Communication Centre (NHEICC).
Welcome to the partnership!Governance and Code of Conduct
The Research4Life governance is as simple and as efficiently structured as possible, with progress monitored and future developments agreed at the annual General Partners Meeting (GPM). The GPM is the governing and authoritative body of Research4Life where decision are taken. The meeting designates temporary teams to address particular strategic and tactical issues.
In addition, the Executive Council represents the major contributing partners and takes ongoing operational decisions between General Partners Meetings. Several Teams are assigned by the executive council and report back to it: Capacity Development, Communications and Marketing, Eligibility, Finance, Fundraising and Technology.
The Research4Life Partnership established a Code of Conduct that applies to all those conducting work for Research4Life and is intended to act as guidance alongside employers’ codes of conduct.