Webinar@AIMS: Research4Life: The library that opens doors (EN)
Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, Cornell and Yale Universities, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and over 200 international scientific publishers. It provides developing countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online. Eligible libraries and their users benefit from online access to up to 68,000 peer-reviewed international scientific journals, books, and databases in the areas of health, agriculture, environment and technology.
The overall goal of Research4Life is to empower research institutions in developing countries and to reduce knowledge gaps.
This webinar will illustrate how Research4Life works, how it is constructed and who can join the partnership. It will briefly present the four Research4Life programs Hinari, AGORA, OARE and ARDI that provide access to the aforementioned research areas. Furthermore it will give an overview about free training provided on the website about authorship skills reference management tools etc. and provide examples of how Research4Life could make a difference for many research institutions already.
Authors:
Kimberly Parker
Kimberly Parker is the Hinari Programme Manager at the World Health Organization where she coordinates the Hinari Access to Research in Health programme. Before moving to the World Health Organization in 2008, Kimberly worked for 18 years at the Yale University Library on science, medical, and electronic publishing issues of librarianship. The biggest challenge and reward in her role is keeping a far-flung partnership dynamic and vibrant in the middle of its second decade of engagement.
