Betsy Like Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Tufts University April 2016
Presentation Outline Background Partners AGORA HINARI
Research4Life is a public-private partnership between the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), Cornell University, Yale University and several technical partners including Microsoft. The partnership’s goal is to contribute to the attainment of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, reducing the knowledge gap between industrialized countries and developing countries by providing affordable access to critical scientific research. Since 2002, the four programmes – Research in Health (HINARI), Research in Agriculture (AGORA), Research in the Environment (OARE) and Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) – have provided researchers in developing countries and territories with free or low-cost access to up to resources in the fields of health, agriculture, and environment. Background
AGORA: Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture Led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the goal of AGORA is to improve the quality and effectiveness of agricultural research, education and training in low-income countries, and in turn, to improve food security. HINARI: Access to Research in Health Set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature, thereby contributing to improve world health. Background
Online access to major journals Online access to books Access to databases and reference sources Online training materials All permanent staff members, students and faculty are entitled to access and can use the institutional Username and Password Background
Who is Eligible for R4L Programmes?
Partners Key Publishers Elsevier Springer Wiley Sage Taylor & Francis Lippincott/Williams & Wilkins BioOne Oxford University Press Nature Publishing Other science/technical/ medical publishers Program Partners World Health Organization Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations United Nations Environment Programme World Intellectual Property Organization International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers Yale University Library Cornell University Mann Library National Library of Medicine Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa Librarians Without Borders®/MLA
AGORA Online portal to access information on food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. Set up by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 2,900 registered institutions in more than 100 countries 6,100 journals and 5,800 books [April 2016]
AGORA Website
AGORA Training Materials
HINARI Online portal to access information on health and related social sciences Coordinated by WHO and Yale University More than 5,600 registered institutions 15,000 journals and 47,000 books and 100 other information resources [April 2016]
HINARI Website
HINARI Training Materials
R4L Resources – Share! usernames and passwords may be shared with: Authorized Users: an institution’s employee, permanent or visiting faculty or student Walk-in Users: anyone who comes to the institution’s premises and is permitted by the institution to access services there
R4L Resources – Do Not Share usernames and passwords with people from outside the institution supply documents to individuals or organizations outside the registered institution charge a fee for supplying documents except to recover cost of printing use R4L programmes when outside the country upload or post the material to a publicly available website or elsewhere post usernames and passwords to websites or blogs that are publically accessible
Thank you !! On behalf of the Research4Life programs