1. reducing the scientific
Research4Life:
reducing the scientific
knowledge gap
Dakar, September 2019

2. Research4Life: Hinari, OARE, ARDI, AGORA and GOALI
Who can access Research4Life?
ACE centre access and use
IP-based access
Retrieving a full-text article
Related initiatives

3. Challenges of many libraries in low-income countries
Lack of access to current scientific literature
No budget for important peer-reviewed journals
Up-to-date research needed for discovering evidence, sharing findings, and informing teaching, practice and public policy
Research4Life can help
…. if known.

4. What is Research4Life?
Collective name for five programmes – Hinari, AGORA, OARE, ARDI and GOALI – that provide developing countries with free or low-cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.
A public-private partnership of WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, ILO, Cornell and Yale Universities, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and up to 155 international publishers.
The goal of Research4Life is to reduce the knowledge gap between high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries by providing affordable access to scholarly, professional and research information.

5. Access to leading academic publishers

6. Research4Life at a glance
Research4Life also incorporates open access publications in its five subject-based programmes to help institutions manage their resources for users.
Online access through Research4Life to up to peer-reviewed international scientific journals, books, and databases
Full-text articles which can be downloaded for saving, printing or reading on screen
Searching by keyword, subject, author or language
Training in information literacy
More than 8,900 institutions
More than 120
countries
Up to 155 publishers

7. Programmes Hinari (Research for Health), managed by WHO
AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture), managed by FAO
OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment), managed by UNEP
ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation), managed by WIPO
GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information), managed by ILO
An ACE centre might use one, two, or all all five R4L programmes. Access to one gives access to all five.

8. Eligibility
Group A Countries Group B Countries Free Access Low-cost Access

9. Who can register for Research4Life?
national universities
professional schools (medicine, agriculture, pharmacy, public health, engineering, etc.)
research institutes
teaching hospitals and healthcare centers
government offices
national libraries
agricultural extension centers and
local non-governmental organizations.

10. The value of Research4Life
An average journal subscription costs approx*: US$ 1,731
Research4Life provides access up to: 20,000 journals**
Total monetary value provided to each institution: up to US$ 34,620,000
Institutions in 72 of the world’s low-income countries receive free access to journal and book content via Research4Life.
Institutions in a further 45 countries pay US $1,500 per year for a subscription to the Research4Life content – an effective discount of over 99.9%. Fees go to Research4Life capacity development.
* Based on LJ Periodicals Price Survey
**Publishers have the option to choose whether provide access or not to specific content in specific countries

11. Most ACE centre institutions registered for Research4Life
Most universities are registered
Most ACE centre countries have free access (except Nigeria)
HOWEVER
Not all universities share credentials across faculties
Some ACE centres do not know they have access
Usage statistics could be higher
Librarians often gatekeepers: ask them! Or us!
It is OK to share the Research4Life credentials with colleagues, students, professors or other members of the institution (not outside your institution)
Benin
Burkina Faso #
Cape Verde
Côte d’Ivoire ^
Gambia
Ghana *
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Mali ^#
Niger *#
Nigeria
Senegal #
Sierra Leone
Togo

12. IP-based access Improves access to R4L
No login with password needed on campus
Register the IP address in the IPRegistry (theipregistry.org)
Registration at IPRegistry is free for all libraries.
Once registered in the IPRegistry, send your request for IP registration to
Several ACE centres have implemented this
Consult with an IT focal point at your institution to check what your institutional IP is, or check external websites such as whatismyip.com

13. Temporary guest access login.research4life.org user name: ag-sen011
password: 72f25BSE
Type in user name and password exactly as provided. Passwords are case-sensitive. Click LOGIN.Passwords being case-sensitive means you will have to type them in upper or lower-case otherwise you will not be able to login.
Site: R4L login
What password are you using? AGORA will check institutional user name and password , to make sure that contents accessible for your institution (those marked with a green square) are accessible.
Please remember that the password and username are case sensitive, and must have correct spacing

15. Retrieving a full-text article
Site: AGORA journal portal
Find the journal and click on the title to open journal homepage in a new window

16. Article opens up in PDF. Yu can save it or print it.
Once a full-text article opens you can go on to save it on your local computer (PDF) or print it for a hard-copy. Search and download works well on cellphones, download when online and read offline later.
Article opens up in PDF. Yu can save it or print it.

17. User interface needs work, planned when we have resources
User interface needs work, planned when we have resources. New authentication system was higher priority to improve, made a big difference.

18. Google Scholar: add Research4Life as a library link

19. Registration http://registration.research4life.org
Registration is available in En / Fr / Es
Only eligible countries can register.
Individuals are not eligible to register, only institutions.
Only one registration is required per institution.
Your institution may already be registered, ask your librarian first.
More than one contact is required to register an institution (Librarian, director and preferably a technical support contact).
All registered institutions need to sign a user agreement that defines the rules that Research4Life users agree to:
It is ok to
Share the Research4Life credentials with colleagues, students, professors or other members of the institution
Download or print up to 15% of a journal issue or book.​
Use material for educational purposes (course packs or reserves) or make copies for institution members.
It is not ok to
Share the credentials outside the institution
Publish contents accessed through Research4Life or the credentials online or download all articles from a single issue.

20. Capacity development Workshops:
Research4Life training around the world with the collaboration of UN agencies and university libraries.
Now, more online training:
Free modules on how to use the different programme platforms, advocacy and information literacy.
New Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Research4Life coming late 2019.

21. Related initiatives: publications and datasets
AGRIS agris.fao.org
Multilingual bibliographic database with over ten million records, facilitates access to publications, journal articles, monographs, book chapters, and grey literature in agriculture and related sciences. Some full text, some datasets.
GARDIAN
The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture aims to harness of big data capabilities to accelerate and enhance the impact of international agricultural research. Explore over 155,500 publications across CGIAR and beyond: over 19,000 datasets.

22. Related initiatives
UN Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries
Helps LDCs build the science, technology and innovation capacity.
INASP
Works to strengthen the capacity of individuals and institutions to produce, share and use research and knowledge. Has initiative aimed at improving research access.
AuthorAID
Support, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in low and middle income countries.
UN Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries: Helps LDCs build the science, technology and innovation capacity needed to promote the structural transformation of their economies, eradicate poverty and foster sustainable development. Working with UNECA and NASAC to establish academies of science where they don’t exist and strengthen those that are already established.
INASP works to strengthen the capacity of individuals and institutions to produce, share and use research and knowledge, in support of national development. Has an initiative aimed at improving research access.

23. Twitter @R4LPartnership