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Date: 29 Mar 2018 to 30 Mar 2018Venue: ICIMOD, KathmanduContact Persons: Anil Kumar JhaType: WorkshopsProgrammes: KMC The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing a National Workshop on Access to

AGORA Curso en línea: Fundamentos de Alfabetización Informacional y Acceso Global en Línea a la Investigación en Agricultura – 9 Abril hasta 20 Abril 2018 ¿Cómo aplicar para participar en el curso? La convocatoria de la primera edición del curso

Researchers, law students, policymakers, judges and legal experts in low- and middle-income countries can now get free or low-cost online access to legal information and training from the world’s leading academic publishers. GENEVA, March 6th, 2018 – Research4Life, The ILO

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and its partners will launch a new Research4Life programme called “Global Online Access to Legal Information” (GOALI), on Tuesday, 6 March. Recognizing the importance of access to legal information, the new programme gives free or low-cost

The Research4Life team has been working on improving our portals and services and is pleased to announce several enhancements for Research4Life programme users: From the beginning of this year, all institutions registered for any of the Research4Life programmes  (Hinari, AGORA, OARE and ARDI) get access to all portals with their credentials.

Upon request of the National Technical Institute of Agriculture and Fisheries (INTA) in Nicaragua, the AGORA team of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with FAO Nicaragua, organized a four-hour online training for the INTA team at the central level and their remotely connected colleagues from the six regions. In total 38 staff members of the Institute participated to jointly discover the AGORA platform and collection for the first time. At the central level 15 colleagues followed the training together on a big screen, while at the same time practicing on their laptops.

As per January 2018 Research4Life has reached more than 80,000 journals, books and other resources through its four programmes: AGORA, Hinari, OARE and ARDI.   [su_row class=””] [su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=””] Hinari Journals: up to 14,000Books: up to 56,000Other info

OBJECTIVE: Knowledge sharing & experience capitalization on how to use the AGORA platform to access an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. WHEN : 27-28 November 2017 WHERE : Chisinau, Republic

(Image source: Open Educational Resources: Global Report 2017, CommonWealth of Learning, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License) AGORA Online Course entitled “Fundamentals of Information Literacy and Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture” was held between 23 October- 5 November

The Medical Library Association (MLA) has announced the Hinari/Research4Life (R4L) Grants for 2018. Funded by the Elsevier Foundation, up to five awards, will support Hinari/R4L training activities that promote the use of the programs’ scientific research resources in emerging/low income

A new Hinari Users course will be available for free to users in registered institutions. The two-week distance learning course focuses on the basic skills needed to effectively access and download full-text material from Hinari. You will also learn how

We are pleased to announce that REGISTRATION is now OPEN (till October 15th; Sunday 23:00 CEST) for the 4th edition of the online  Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture (ASIRA) course ! This course edition runs for 3 weeks between 30th October and 19th November 2017. The main goal of the course is to