Research4Life and AGORA provide free or low-cost access to academic and professional content online to reduce the scientific knowledge gap between higher and lower income countries. Research4Life includes four programs covering health, agriculture, environment and development. AGORA specifically focuses on agriculture, fisheries, food and related topics, providing access to up to 6,500 journals and 22,000 books. Eligible institutions in lower income countries can register for free access to Research4Life resources, while those in higher income countries pay a nominal $1,500 annual fee.
4. 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
5.
6. RESEARCH4LIFE
§ Four programmes that provide lower income countries with
free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-
reviewed content online.
§ Cover research in health, agriculture, environment, and
development and innovation
§ Goal:
reduce the scientific knowledge gap
between higher income and lower income countries
13. AGORA is like your library
Registered users can…
§ Browse the collection
§ Search for journals or books in a specific subject area
§ Track down a citation
§ Use Summon or Scopus as powerful tools for discovery
Note: Anyone can browse AGORA’s collection of journals
without logging in and get to the publishers’ websites and
abstracts of journal articles. However, only students, faculty
and staff at eligible, registered institutions can access full-text
articles, with institutional credentials. AGORA log in does not
give access to all services offered on publishers’ websites.