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Mario Heredia is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) of the University of Aveiro in Portugal. When researchers are working for a country they love, they can do amazing things. When they are backed
Knowledge is power
Lui Philip Kame is Technical Services Librarian at the PNG University of Natural Resource and Environment in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Lui Philip Kame believes in giving people power by giving them information. “I decided to become a librarian
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Access to research results in policy advocacy to address the burden of diabetes in Zimbabwe
Gaining access to Research4Life equipped Dr. Alice Matimba and her team with up-to-date and reliable information to advocate for a policy of investment in the advanced technology and services needed to tackle the burden of diabetes in Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe,
A journey to knowledge
Rosemary Thiongo is a librarian at the Faculty of Sciences of the Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya. Rosemary Thiongo bought her first ever car in order to visit the library. At the time, she was working full-time as a
Accessing Digital Resources in Ghana
Dinah Baidoo is an assistant librarian at Ashesi University College in Berekuso, Ghana. Dinah is also a member of the “advocacy/marketing of eResources” sub-committee of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH). She received an honorable mention
To go beyond research
Dr. Enitome E. Bafor is a senior lecturer at the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Benin, Nigeria. Enitome Bafor has faced many hurdles during her research career: from developing a unique application for a metabolomic-pharmacology model to more
AGORA Webinars: Effective Search Strategies for Researchers. Finding resources on AGORA and other platforms (EN/FR/ES)
  We are pleased to announce three upcoming webinars in English, French and Spanish about developing search strategie for researchers. We will demonstrate how a well formulated search strategy can facilitate literature search on the AGORA platform via Summon and on other platforms. AGORA provides access to
Putting ClinicalKey in doctors’ hands through Research4Life’s developing country access
Medical search engine lets doctors and nurses find evidence-based answers while treating patients Whether they are based in Boston, Beijing or Botswana, doctors everywhere struggle with information overload. Treating patients and keeping up with their administrative work and the latest
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 resources by keyword, filter 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 (to date: 9.020) and e-books
What you need to know about AGORA
Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) is one of the four Research4Life programmes that provides free or low cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences to public institutions in developing countries.
How information access is changing the biggest academic library in Myanmar
Research4Life helps the Universities' Central Library n Yangon to transform a traditional library into an e-library.
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