Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture

The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of 1278 journals to institutions in 107 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world.

July 2010. AGORA featured at the 5th African Agricultural Science Week
AGORA and Research4Life were highlighted at the 5th African Agricultural Science Week (AASW) and the 5th FARA General Assembly at Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, aimed at focusing on advances in agricultural research for development in the continent. [Read more...]

Updated Training Materials now available
July 2010. Please refer to the HINARI and OARE For more information, visit Training pages for a list of updated training materials, including a presentation on using SCOPUS, a training Module in Arabic, and a series of articles on Authorship Skills. [Read more...]

Learn more about Research4Life at the IAALD World Congress
Learn about one of Research4Life’s partnerships, AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) at the IAALD World Congress in Montpellier 27-29 April. AGORA will be joining TEEAL in the conference as part of the main exhibition. [Read more...]

IFIS – FSTA Abstracts joins AGORA
The International Food Information Service (IFIS) Publishing has made available to AGORA subscribers in selected countries the FSTA/Direct- the Food Science and Technology Abstracts database. [Read more...]

SCOPUS now available on AGORA
Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has made available its Scopus database to AGORA subscribers. [Read more...]

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Guatemala, September 2009 We are very pleased to have discovered AGORA since one of the main limitations that we face in Guatemala is lack of valid scientific information and of course the financial means to acquire it. [Read more...]

Myanmar, July 2009 AGORA is a godsend: there are no well-resourced libraries in the country! [Read more...]

ITOCA 2009 Training Calendar The Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA) www.itoca.org is mandated to carry out training and outreach work for Research4Life programmes. [Read more...]

ITOCA training 2008 calendar ITOCA has trained over 5,000 information professionals, scientists and students in electronic information programs in over 30 Sub-Sahara countries in the last nine years. [Read more...]