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AGORA : Tracking Usage Growth : June 2017

AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) is one of the four programmes making up Research4Life (R4L) facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. AGORA's goal is to provide free or low cost access (complementary to open access) to peer-reviewed journals (to date: 8,280) and e-books (to date: 22,581) in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences. 

# R4L provides a big share of peer-reviewed contents for free to institutions in group A countries and for a small fee to group B countries. 

NOTE: 
The Research4Life programmes - including AGORA  - will receive a new authentication system on 4 July 2017.

By bringing key scientific literature to students, researchers and scientists, AGORA portal has "become a crucial tool for some of the world’s poorest countries [as] access to information is key to develop agriculture and ensure food security" (R4L Press Release).

The most noticeable development in AGORA's usage context - during the last months - has been the upward growth of the number of institutions registered with AGORA/R4L programme.

# AGORA : Eligibility:  Group A and Group B

In particular, during the month of June 2017, 24 AGORA requests were processed. Thus AGORA has got : 

  • 19 new institutions from the Group A countries : 

(1 - from Vietnam, Burkina Faso and Bangladesh; 2 - from Ghana, 4 - from Honduras and 10 - from Guatemala) and

  • 2 new institutions - from the Group B (Argentina and Nigeria).

The TOTAL of registered institutions on June 30, 2017 was:  3177  (2472 -  group A and 705 - group B).

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