Research4Life explained

Research4Life
Formation:	2002
Type:	Non-profit

Research4Life is a platform and website dedicated to making peer-reviewed knowledge public to students and researchers in lower income countries. Research4Life provides free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.^[1] In 2021 Research4Life offered 132,000 leading journals and books in the fields of health, agriculture, environment, applied sciences and legal information.^[2]

Organization

Partners

Research4Life is led by an Executive Council and several supporting teams of representatives from a variety of partner organizations, including:^[3]

• Cornell University
• Elsevier
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• Information Training & Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA)
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• Librarians Without Borders
• Oxford University Press
• Portsys
• STM
• Taylor & Francis Group
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• Yale University Library

Programs

Research4Life consists of five programs:

• HINARI, research for health;
• AGORA, research on agriculture;
• ARDI, research for development and Innovation;
• OARE, research in the environment
• GOALI, research for global justice.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Our commitment to universal access to medical research § About Research4Life . . 2015-04-05.
2. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/07/07/guest-post-trends-challenges-and-needs-of-research-in-the-global-south-learnings-as-research4life-turns-20/ ‘Trends, Challenges, and Needs of Research in the Global South: Learnings as Research4Life turns 20’. In: "Scholarly Kitchen", 7 July 2021
3. Web site: Governance . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230705011755/https://www.research4life.org/about/governance/ . 2023-07-05 . 2023-07-05 . Research4Life . en-US.