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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.

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Hinari Train the Trainers workshop in Egypt
Hinari Train the Trainers workshop in Egypt
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A total of 50 participants including 5 from Djibouti and Libya were present at a Hinari Sub-regional workshop in Cairo, Egypt. The majority of the Egyptian participants were from health-related academic institutions. The workshop was jointly organized by WHO EMRO, the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) and the Librarians Without Borders/Medical Library Association, USA (LWB).
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GLL Webinar 6: Strengthening the knowledge base about quality of care – an overview of Hinari: Research for Health.
Advancing on the promise of universal health coverage (UHC) requires access to critical information to strengthen the knowledge base around quality of care. This webinar will provide an overview of the WHO programme, Hinari Access to Research for Health. The
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Rice paddies in Kiroka with the Uluguru Mountains in the distance
Call for Applications for free AGORA Online (English) Course is now open!
AGORA Team is pleased to offer AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) Online Course again in English. AGORA is one of the five programmes of Research4Life. The online course entitled AGORA : Fundamentals of Information Literacy and Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture is provided by the Partnerships and South-South Cooperation Division (DPS) at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN), in collaboration with Research4Life.
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Rome, Italy - Ten Years On: 10th Anniversary of AGORA
Appel aux candidatures cours en ligne AGORA : Principes fondamentaux de l’alphabétisation informationnelle et de l’accès mondial en ligne à la recherche en agriculture – 14 au 25 Mai 2018
L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), en collaboration avec Research4Life, a le plaisir d'annoncer un cours en ligne en français sur la plateforme AGORA (Accès à la recherche mondiale en ligne sur l'agriculture), qui se tiendra pour la première fois du 14 au 25 mai 2018.
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SAGE Publishing has made its e-book collection available to Research4Life
In April 2018, SAGE Publishing opened its e-book collection to Research4Life. Thanks to this addition, AGORA’s (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) collection now includes 3,325 new e-books! About AGORA and Research4Life Founded in 2003, by FAO of the UN in partnership with Cornell University and 65 world leading
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From AGORA Workshop in Nepal (29 -30 March, 2018)
Participants of the AGORA workshop, Lalitpur, Nepal, 30 March 2018 INTRODUCTION The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held a two-day national workshop on Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture
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