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A librarian in Myanmar is modernizing the way of delivering literature to students, a physiotherapist in Ethiopia is finding better ways to treat his patients and a researcher in Zimbabwe is tackling the burden of diabetes. These are just some of the many stories we hear from Research4Life user. Read more below on this page, and discover other stories from the community.

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New nonprofit launched to support Research4Life

Friends of Research4Life, a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in the United States, was launched to support the critical mission of Research4Life to enable full participation in the global information environment. Organizations and individuals can now make contributions that directly benefit Research4Life programs.

From playing cricket to supporting health researchers: Research4Life’s user representative talks about his work as a librarian in Nepal
To make sure users’ needs are well-represented, Research4Life has two user representatives. Read our interview with one of them: Chandra Bhushan Yadav from Nepal.
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Register now for the 2020 Research4Life online course
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Research4Life users can now register for the second edition of the Research4Life Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The free course, which is taught in English, will run from 20 April to 24 May 2020.
Elsevier opens up Embase to Research4Life
Elsevier is making its biomedical database Embase available to Research4Life users with immediate effect. Researchers and healthcare professionals in developing countries now have access to one of the world’s most comprehensive biomedical literature databases.
How Research4Life helps medical researchers perform systematic reviews
Librarian Xan Goodman travelled to Nigeria for a workshop on using Research4Life for health research. The impact she made with those workshops is still noticeable today.
First Research4Life MOOC: “I now have a clearer concept of the hidden world of academia”
2,207 people from 95 countries joined the first Research4Life MOOC. The next edition will run in 2020.
Research4Life in Papua New Guinea: “This will make my life much easier!”
Research4Life visited Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, to teach local researchers how to get the most out of the Research4Life platform.
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