Research4Life Overview for Users from Eligible Countries

2013 03

Presentation Outline

Background Eligibility Partners Contents Registration Research4Life Programmes

Research4Life (R4L) provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences, agriculture, environmental health and innovation and development to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries.

HINARI was launched in January 2002 for “free access” countries (Group A). The “very low cost’ option was added in 2005 (Group B) and the groups apply to all programmes

AGORA was launched in 2003 OARE was launched in 2008 ARDI was launched in2009 and became a R4L partner in

2011

Background

Partners Major Publishers

Elsevier Science Springer Wiley-Blackwell Sage Taylor & Francis Lippincott/Williams &

Wilkins BioOne Oxford University Press Nature Publishing Other science/technical/

medical publishers

http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/partners.php

Program Partners World Health Organization – WHO Yale University Library International Association of Scientific,

Technical and Medical Publishers – STM Food and Agriculture Org. – FAO United Nations Environment Programme –

UNEP World Intellectual Property Organization –

WIPO Information Training and Outreach Centre

for Africa National Library of Medicine Mann Library/Cornell University Microsoft Librarians Without Borders/MLA

http://www.research4life.org/

Eligibility for all 4 programmes (1)

• Country eligibility is based on four factors: Total GNI (World Bank figures), GNI per capita (World Bank figures), United Nations Least Developed Country (LDCs) List and Human Development Index (HDI). Detailed information: http://www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/en/

• If your institution is in a Group A (free access) country, area, or territory, then HINARI is free.

• If your institution is in a Group B (low-cost access) country, area, or territory, HINARI/AGORA/OARE costs US$ 1000 per institution per calendar year (from January through December).

• More than 100 countries, areas, and territories are eligible

• For more information, go to: http://www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/en/

Eligibility (2) Eligible categories of institutions are: national universities research institutes professional schools (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public

health, dentistry) teaching hospitals government: ministries and agencies national medical libraries locally based non-governmental agencies

All permanent and visiting faculty, staff members and students are entitled to access and can obtain the institutional User Name and Password.

Who is Eligible for R4L Programmes?

Registration Guidehttp://www.research4life.org/howtoregister2/

Registration*http://www.who.int/hinari/faq/registration_and_eligibility_registered_universities/en/index.html

*Institutions can register for HINARI, AGORA and OARE on this page; ARDI registration is separate

Registration (2)

HINARI(HINARI Access to Research in Health

Programme)

Online portal to access information on health and related social sciences

Coordinated by WHO/Yale University More than 5300 institutions Up to 11,400 journals / up to 18,500 books /

Other info resources up to 70 / up to 380 publishers

http://www.who.int/hinari

HINARI Portal

AGORA(Access to Global Online Research in

Agriculture)

Online portal to access information on agriculture and related sciences

Coordinated by FAO/Cornell University, USA 2200 institutions Up to 3400 journals / up to 2000 books / up to

20 information resources / up to 95 publishers

http://www.aginternetwork.org

AGORA Portal

OARE (Online Access to Research in the

Environment)

Online portal to access environmental information

Coordinated by UNEP/Yale University Up to 4800 journals / up to 8300 books / up to

110 publishers 2300 registered institutions

http://www.unep.org/oare

OARE Portal

ARDI (Access to Research for Development and

Innovation ) Online portal to access development and

innovation research Launched by WIPO 2009 Over 2000 journals / 5000 books / 14 publishers supports researchers in developing countries in

creating and developing new solutions to technical challenges faced on a local and global level

http://www.wipo.int/ardi

ARDI Portal

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