Research4Life provides over 6,000 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed online content from the world’s leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Last 14 November the Research4Life partners announced that they have agreed to extend their partnership through 2020. Since the programme’s launch in 2001, no publisher has withdrawn support from the partnership.

18,000 peer reviewed scientific journals, books and databases now available through the public-private Research4life partnership will continue to reach research communities in low- and middle-income countries.

Reseach4Life

Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, Cornell and Yale Universities and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers. Working together with technology partner Microsoft, the partnership’s goal is to help attain six of the UN’s eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, reducing the scientific knowledge gap between industrialized countries and the developing world.

Research4Life is the collective name for the four programmes HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI. Nearly 200 scientific, technical and medical publishers worldwide participate in it.