Research4Life and INASP present “Information in Action: Celebrating Research Advocacy Champions” a booklet made in partnership with INASP that showcases the best stories from the 2016 Research4Life/INASP Advocacy Competition In 2016, Research4Life and INASP launched…
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Elsevier Adds ClinicalKey to Research4Life Access Program for Developing Countries
Physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals in under-resourced communities around the world to receive access to the latest clinical information Philadelphia, PA, May 25, 2017 – Elsevier, the information analytics company specializing in science and…
Call for Applications ! Online Course on Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture (ASIRA) for Low-Income Countries
Please find below a Call for Applications to attend the Online Course on Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture (ASIRA) for Low-Income Countries. We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 3rd edition…
Research4Life Partners Newsletter May 2017
Table of Contents Note from the Editor Next Research4Life Partners Meeting Launching the “Stories of Change” Meet our new Research4Life user representative Chandra Bhushan Yadav ECS Partners with Research4Life Capacity Development Team Highlights ITOCA delivers…
Finding AGORA resources by keyword – Literature Research with Summon
(Image credit: pixabay.com, CC0 license) We are pleased to announce three upcoming webinars in English, French and Spanish about how to search AGORA with Summon. Summon facilitates literature research on the AGORA portal enabling the user to search…
AGORA : Tracking Usage Growth : April 2017
AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) is one of the four programmes making up Research4Life (R4L) facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. AGORA’s goal is to provide free or low cost access (complementary to open access) to peer-reviewed journals…
Join the Webinar! Literature Research on Nutrition – Browsing AGORA
(Image credit: Unsplash, CC0 license) We are pleased to announce three upcoming webinars in English, French and Spanish about how AGORA can be browsed to facilitate information searching in the area of nutrition research. AGORA’s main purpose is to…
ECS Partners with Research4Life to Help Close the Knowledge Gap in the Developing World
All ECS content will be accessible to over 8,200 institutions ECS is partnering with Research4Life to provide accessibility to over 132,000 articles and abstracts published in the ECS Digital Library. All papers published by ECS…
ASIRA Online Course Webinars: Recordings and slides are available online
A.S.I.R.A. (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) online course for low-income countries – started on 13 February, 2017 – is in its last week. The course was enriched by a number of webinars designed to strengthen the…
Webinar: Introduction to Using TEEAL to Access Agricultural Journals
A.S.I.R.A. (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries started on 13 February, 2017. Throughout the course, several webinar sessions will be held based on the subjects taught in the units. These webinars are open to anyone…
Join the third A.S.I.R.A.’s free Webinar !
A.S.I.R.A. (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries started on 13 February, 2017. Throughout the course, several webinar sessions will be held based on the subjects taught in the units. These webinars are open to anyone…
Join us for ASIRA’s online course First Webinar!
A.S.I.R.A. (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries starts on 13 February (Monday), 2017. Throughout the course, several webinar sessions will be held based on the subjects taught in the…
Online Course on Access to Agricultural Data is Now Open for Registration!
ASIRA online course for low-income countries is delivered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Research4Life. The course registration is open from 11th to 27th January, 2017. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________…
Zimbabwe workshop on Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO of the UN) in conjunction with several partners has organized a series of training workshops in 2016 across Asia and Africa focused on access to research…
Research4Life Partners Newsletter November 2016
Table of Contents Note from the Editor R4L/INASP Advocacy Competition Winners Highlights from the General Partners Meeting New Research4Life’s Strategic Plan The 2016 MLA Research4Life grant winners Winners of the Research4Life Draw announced PortSys to…
Why Should We Care About Information Access?
The spread of diseases is not limited by geographic boundaries, people everywhere must be able to use the most recent research to better manage diseases. Held at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, “Information Access in…
New 1,209 journals on AGORA since July 2016!
Massive new input onto Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) platform gives researchers access to 1,209 new journals. This latest addition represents an enormous boost to the online collection, with over six thousand…
AGORA adds SHARE to its databases: Get access to 125 additional data providers!
AGORA has added SHARE to its database. SHARE is a collection of open-access data and enriches AGORA with data from 125 additional data providers. AGORA provides a collection of 20 databases that are listed on…
Research4Life Chooses PortSys’ Total Access Control to Ensure Critical Access and Authentication
PortSys announces adoption of its Total Access Control product by the Research4Life partnership to replace end-of-life Microsoft authentication system. Marlborough, Mass. October 4, 2016 – Research4Life and PortSys today announced the adoption of Total Access…
Winners of Research4Life prize drawing announced
King Hussein Cancer Center is the lucky winner of the First Prize Research4Life provides access to tens of thousands of online books and journals daily, but it is a rare occasion when it can offer…
2016 MLA Hinari/Research4Life Grant Recipients
The Medical Library Association (MLA) and the Elsevier Foundation have announced the recipients of the 2016 MLA HINARI/Research4Life Grants. Funded by the Elsevier Foundation, these grants will support HINARI/R4L training activities that promote the use of the programs’ scientific research…
New Hinari Master Trainer Online Course
We are pleased to announce the new Hinari Master Trainer course. On the next October 1st, a new 4-week free online Hinari Master Trainer Course will start thanks to the collaboration with our partners Librarians…
Research4Life is now part of Oxfam’s Digital Searching and Access Guideline
In November 2012, Oxfam -one of the biggest international organizations working to fight poverty-, launched a series of guidelines to help development practitioners conduct high-quality research. The “how-to” guidelines are available in the Oxfam Policy and…
Research4Life General Partners Meeting 2016
The Research4Life Annual General Partners Meeting was held at Cornell University’s Weill Cornell Medical College on 20 and 21 July 2016 in New York City. The meeting brought together more than 30 delegates and observers representing our publishing community,…
Research4Life Partners Newsletter July 2016
Table of Contents Note from the Editor Hinari 15th anniversary and new look Research4Life Annual General Partners Meeting, July 20, New York Our Vision for 2020 and Beyond INASP/Research4Life Advocacy Campaign Update on number of…
Research4life/INASP Advocacy competition on Elsevier Connect
To highlight the critical role that doctors, researchers, librarians and policymakers play in advocating their leaders to support research in their institutions and countries, Research4Life joined with INASP to launch an advocacy competition. The aim…
Forum on Open Data, Open Science and Open Access to Agricultural Information, Accra, Ghana
The final of three Open Data and Open Science Forums in Africa is set to take place July 11 2016, followed by the last in a series of training workshops, July 12-13 Organized by FAO in conjunction with…
INASP and Research4Life Launch Research Advocacy Competition
Global case study competition spotlights how users in the developing world have successfully advocated for a sustainable research culture. London, United Kingdom June 28, 2016 – INASP and Research4Life have announced today a competition to recognize…
A total of 69,000 online resources now available in Research4Life
The total online resources available in Research4Life is going up We are pleased to announce a new update in the number of online resources available through the Research4Life programes. In the last 18 months, the total…
Total resources on AGORA swells to 28,000
Huge new input onto the platform gives researchers access to 15,000 new books New resources are being added to Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) all the time but this latest addition represents…
