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Now in French - AGORA Short Course – March 2013
25/Mar/2013The updated version of the AGORA Short Course and Workbook are now available in French [Read more...]
The Research4Life partners announced that they have agreed to extend their partnership through 2020
05/Dec/2012Research4Life (www.research4life.org) currently provides over 6,000 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low cost access. [Read more...]
Research4Life is now on Facebook and Twitter
08/Oct/2012Keep up-to-date on the latest news and activities of Research4Life [Read more...]
Updated AGORA Training Materials now available – September 2012
17/Sep/2012The English version of the AGORA Training Materials are now updated. Use them as training materials on “How to use AGORA”, or simply as personal teaching guides. The 2012 Training materials include exercises, handouts, and presentations [Read more...]
Strengthening Research4Life Customer Registration and Assistance – June 2012
02/Jul/2012The Research4Life User Registration Systems and Help Desk Facilities which service the HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI programmes [Read more...]
Research4Life greatly expands peer reviewed research available to developing world
16/May/2012Research4Life partners announced today that the content available through its collaborative public-private partnership has dramatically increased since 2011 to reach 17,000 peer reviewed scientific journals, books and databases. Research4Life provides over 6,000 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed online content from the world’s leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. [Read more...]
Stories From the Field: How Access to Scientific Literature is Improving the Livelihoods of Communities Around the World - 2011
04/Apr/2012To celebrate Research4Life’s 10th anniversary in 2011, we asked users to share with us how HINARI, AGORA or OARE has improved their work, life and community. We received 60 entries from countries in all five continents which revealed a wealth of positive impacts brought about by Research4Life. This book celebrates these stories. [Read more...]
Beyond the 2015 Horizon: Research4Life’s Strategic Plan - 2011
04/Apr/2012Beyond the 2015 Horizon, Research4Life’s latest strategic plan, was published in 2011 and has built its content and structure from the findings and recommendations of detailed external reviews conducted during the previous year. The document outlines the five strategic goals behind the strategy and also summarizes the basic information behind Research4Life. [Read more...]
Elsevier Offers 950 New Health Titles to Research4Life
02/Feb/2012October 12, 2011 - Leading health sciences publisher makes key Mosby, Saunders, Churchill Livingstone electronic titles freely available through UN developing world research access program [Read more...]
WIPO’S ARDI Research for Innovation Programme joins Research4Life
18/Oct/201113 October 2011 -The Research4Life partnership, which enables free or low cost online access in the developing world to vital scientific research, is joined today by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), making its ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation) programme the fourth programme in the partnership. Launched in 2009, ARDI was developed together with 12 major scientific and technical publishers in close cooperation with the Research4Life programmes [Read more...]
AGORA Short Course
22/Sep/2011The AGORA Short Course is a compilation of the key points from several modules used for the extensive ‘Train the Trainers’ workshop. This course highlights the baseline skills necessary to use the AGORA program effectively and efficiently. This course is accompanied by a Workbook with 16 exercises that corresponds to each of the key sections in the Short Course. This is a collaborative effort of ITOCA and the Librarians Without Borders®/Medical Library Association (USA) ‘E-library Training Initiative’ that is funded by the Elsevier Foundation. In addition to this version of the Short Course, there is a distance learning version that aims to reach individuals who cannot attend regular workshops. For further information on the distance learning version, please go to the Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA) website at: http://moodle.itoca.org. [Read more...]
Is your research being communicated effectively? Take a short survey!
23/May/2011A major challenge faced by researchers today is how to communicate their research outputs more effectively.
The CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research), FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and GFAR (Global Forum on Agricultural Research) are conducting a global survey to gather evidence from researchers on potential gains and concerns of a wider communication of research results, and promote innovative pathways for better sharing their outputs. [Read more...]
AGORA distance learning course
17/May/2011The AGORA Short Course is designed to give registered users the necessary skills to effectively and efficiently use the AGORA resources. The course consists of a PDF presentation and a Word document with 15 exercises which can be used for training at registered institutions. [Read more...]
LAUNCH OF NEW AGORA VIDEO
14/Sep/2010A new video launched today illustrates how INERA (Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles), Burkina Faso's leading institute for agricultural and environmental research, is using the Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) programme.... [Read more...]
July 2010. AGORA featured at the 5th African Agricultural Science Week
28/Jul/2010AGORA 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
23/Jul/2010July 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
23/Apr/2010Learn 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
02/Feb/2010The 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
03/Dec/2009Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has made available its Scopus database to AGORA subscribers. [Read more...]
Release of updated Resources CD
04/Sep/2009The second version of the Research4Life Resources for Uers and Trainers CD was published in March 2009. [Read more...]
Notice to Band 2 subscribers
31/Jan/2007Some titles may not yet be accessible to Band 2 users [Read more...]
OARE Launch Announced
30/Oct/2006The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation help UNEP, Yale and many leading publishers, societies and associations launch OARE in New York. [Read more...]
Top French Scientific Publishers Join AGORA
26/Jan/2006Francophone scientists in 69 of the poorest countries of the world will now be able to access scientific journals in their own language [Read more...]
The AGORA initiative celebrates its first anniversary
03/Feb/2005Its first year of existence has seen significant increase in user participation as more publishers have agreed to provide online access to scientific journals on food and agriculture. [Read more...]