The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO of the UN) in conjunction with several partners is organizing a series of training workshops across Asia and Africa focused on access to research in…
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Namibia hosts Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Agriculture in Africa in the context of Sustainable Development Goals, 18 April 2016
The second of four forums organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and partners, the forum is targeted at experts from senior government, academia and NGOs. Strengthening access to agricultural science…
Myanmar Universities Hosting Training Workshop on Access To Global Online Research in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 25-29 April 2016
FAO of the United Nations in conjunction with WorldFish and Research4Life is organizing two workshops at the University of Yangon and Yezin University in Myanmar this month. The workshops are aimed at raising awareness of…
Grants now open to train LIS professionals and users in developing countries on how to use Research4Life
During the past decade, I have had the privilege of conducting 60-plus workshops in 35 countries to teach individuals in developing countries how to access Research4Life resources. As the key advocate behind Librarians without Borders® (LWB),…
Communication channel: AGORA now has an active discussion forum on DGroups!
The new group on the e-mail based dialogue platform is a place to stay informed about AGORA and to network At its heart DGroups is a dialogue platform that connects a partnership of groups working…
MLA HINARI/Research4Life Grant
The Medical Library Association (MLA) has announced the HINARI/Research4Life (R4L) Grant for 2016. Funded by the Elsevier Foundation, up to five awards, will support HINARI/R4L training activities that promote the use of the programs’ scientific…
Research4Life Partners Newsletter November 2015
Table of Contents Note from the Editor Research4Life Annual General Partners Meeting, July 21, Geneva Research4Life in the News Training Workshops Highlights Kimberly Parker Wins MLA Lifetime Recognition Award Mendeley Blog Publisher of the Month:…
WHO’s HINARI program partners with Wolters Kluwer to provide UpToDate to Ebola-affected African countries
Waltham, Massachusetts September 9th, 2015 – The World Health Organization (WHO)-hosted HINARI program announced a partnership with Wolters Kluwer to provide free access to UpToDate®, its evidence-based clinical decision support resource, to the three countries…
JoMI Joins Research4Life to Bring High-Quality Surgical Teaching Videos to over 100 Countries
Boston, Massachusetts July 2nd, 2015 – The Journal of Medical Insight (JoMI, www.jomi.com) announced a partnership with Research4Life that will make the journal’s video articles accessible in over 100 developing countries. Research4Life will provide access…
Research4Life’s HINARI Wins MLA’s 2015 Louise M. Darling Medal for Outstanding Health Science Collection
HINARI Program Manager, Kimberly Parker receives the T. Mark Hodges International Service Award Austin, Texas May 18th 2015 – The Medical Library Association and Research4Life partnership announced today that the HINARI program has received…
Research4Life Partners Newsletter March 2015
Table of Contents Note from the Editor New “Unsung Heroes” video launched with Nasra Gathoni HINARI wins MLA’s 2015 Louise Darling Medal New AGORA Website 5 Years on: How Are We Doing? Spotlight on IFIS,…
Research4Life – “Unsung Heroes”: Nasra Gathoni video-story
A new video by Research4Life – in collaboration with Springer, Elsevier, Oxford University Publishing, SAGE and Taylor & Francis – shows the story of Nasra Gathoni, librarian at the Aga Khan Hospital University Library in…
HINARI Impact survey 2014
Launched in January 2002, HINARI is the oldest programme of the Research4Life partnership. This programme focuses on bringing peer-reviewed access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. Today, after…
Revised version of the HINARI Training Portal
A revised version of the HINARI Training Portal was recently launched. The reorganization had two goals: to update and streamline the basic and advanced Hinari training modules and move the cross-programme Research4Life materials to a…
Scientific Research in Africa is Gathering Momentum
AFRICA has a poor reputation for scientific innovation. But when South Africa jointly won a bid in 2012 to host the world’s largest science project, for a radio telescope called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA),…
Public Access: Getting More Research to More People
While open access (OA) is by far the most well-known form of public access, it is not the only one. Having spent two days last week at Research4Life meetings in Washington, DC and with today’s announcement that…
New Research4Life Training Portal
We are pleased to announce the launching of the Research4Life Training portal (www.research4life.org/training). The goal of this resource is to centrally locate the inter-discipline training material and other training related information from all four Research4Life programmes…
Empowering Agricultural Researchers through the Internet
Scientific research is a vital component of development, but often academics from developing countries have to struggle in order to have access to up-to-date scientific literature, such as international journals, books and databases. Read more on…
Research4Life’s HINARI featured at World Health Organization
WHO recently featured HINARI, with special interviews with Research4Life user and Director-General of Sudan’s Central Medical Supplies Public Corporation, Gamal Khalafalla Mohamed Ali, who heads the national agency responsible for getting medical supplies to all…
Africa doubles research output over past decade, moves towards a knowledge-based economy – Research Trends
Ylann Schemm looks at the factors contributing to a promising trend of African research output. The author cites many : increased funding, significant policy changes within countries, improved research infrastructure, both human and physical and…
Watch the FAO webcast on the 10th Anniversary of AGORA from Rome, Italy – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva
AGORA, a programme that brings key scientific literature on food, agriculture and related fields to students, researchers and scientists, has become a crucial tool for some of the world’s poorest countries. Access to information is…
Research4Life: A User Experience Review
In January 2010, R4L contracted Edmond Gaible of The Natoma Group to conduct a User Experience Review, which was to assess key factors that affect the influence of Research4Life on developing-country participation in the activities…
United Nations – Food and Agriculture Organization Radio: 10th anniversary of Research4Life’s AGORA agricultural program
10th anniversary of Research4Life’s AGORA agricultural program African librarians win the Research4Life competition 18 September 2013, Rome— This week marks the 10th anniversary of Research4Life’s AGORA agricultural program – a program coordinated by…
FAO Press Release: Bridging the information gap in agriculture
AGORA makes online scientific literature available to over 100 poor countries – Tenth anniversary celebrated in Rome 16 September 2013, Rome – AGORA, a programme that brings key scientific literature on food, agriculture and related fields…
Elsevier Connect: Q&A with Stephen Rudgard as AGORA celebrates its 10th anniversary
Equipping agricultural scientists in the developing world with the research they need Stephen Rudgard is the Chief of Knowledge and Capacity for Development at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome. He heads a global…
CABI Boosts Contribution to Research4Life with 77 New Titles on Agriculture, Plant and Veterinary Science
Access to Research in the Developing World Press Release 10 September 2013 – CAB International (Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International) announced today they will be provide free access to 77 recently published CABI books through Research4Life,…
Research4Life featured in the WHO World Health Report 2013
The World health report: research for universal health coverage focuses on the importance of research in advancing progress towards universal health coverage. In addition, it identifies the benefits of increased investment in health research by…
Research4Life Announces Winner of “Unsung Heroes” Library Impact Competition
Onan Mulumba, of Makerere University, is awarded First Prize in the global case study competition to raise awareness about the essential role of librarians powering research in developing countries. London, United Kingdom 1 July…
