Research4Life is the collective name for the four programmes – Hinari, AGORA, OARE and ARDI – that provide developing countries with free or low cost access (for free to institutions in group A countries and for a small fee to group B countries) to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.

The AGORA programme, 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 up to 8,200 key journals and up to 22,000 books to more than 3,100 institutions in more than 115 countries. 

- a series of multimedia stories, experiences and reflections collected during the past year from Research4Life users around the world. The "Stories of Change" campaign has also been launched on Facebook!

# What you need to know about AGORA 

# The Research4Life “Story of Change” is about Yu Yu Tin, the head librarian at the Universities Central Library in Yangon who is working to modernize the biggest academic library in Myanmar. In 2016, despite having just started as chief librarian at ULC, she already had set ambitious goals for the library collection...

Research4Life CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT Team Highlights ... 

# Ongoing e-learning course "AGORA: Fundamentals of Information Literacy and Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture". The course aims to provide information about the fundamentals of information literacy competencies and develop necessary skills to access and effectively use AGORA.

# Ongoing e-learning course “Access to scientific information resources in agriculture in low-income countries” (ASIRA). The objective of this online course is to provide a platform to enhance the visibility, accessibility and usability of agricultural data and science particularly in low-income countries.

# The Research4Life programmes held training workshops in several countries like Laos, Jordan, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Nigeria, Uganda and many more. In addition, ITOCA TEEAL/AGORA courses were also delivered in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria and Uganda. All Hinari training materials now have this license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, as will Research4Life-level materials, to encourage wider sharing.

# Research4Life TRAINING PORTAL 

NOTE: 
Since the new authentication system is on - AGORA also gained some institutions originally registered for other R4L programmes that now have access to AGORA.