Research4Life Programs: Similarities and Differences!

Table of Contents  Background – HINARI, AGORA, OARE, ARDI  Journal Access  Book Access  Searching Options  Training Material

Objectives of Research4Life Programs (R4L) To connect developing world researchers with the international scientific community To reduce the ‘publishing gap’ and improve the quality of locally produced articles and journals Ultimately – improve health, food security and environment in relation to Millennium Development Goals of 2015

Primary Target Audiences Eligible categories of institutions are: national universities research institutes professional schools (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, dentistry) teaching hospitals government: ministries and agencies national medical libraries locally based non-governmental agencies All permanent and visiting faculty, staff members and students are entitled to access and can obtain the institutional User Name and Password.

HINARI (Health Access to Research programme) Online portal to publishers Coordinated by WHO/Yale University, USA Free/Low cost to >100 countries/territories Over 8500 e-journals, 7000 e-books and other resources / 150 publishers Medicine and health institutions registered Data:

Welcome to the HINARI Homepage

Research AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) Online portal to publishers Coordinated by FAO/Cornell University, USA Free/Low cost to >100 countries/territories 2500 journals / 75 publishers Agriculture, food fisheries and related sciences 2000 institutions registered Data:

OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment) Online portal to access environmental information Coordinated by UNEP/Yale University Free/Low cost to >100 countries/territories Over 4150 journals / 75 publishers and scholarly societies Environment and related sciences 1800 institutions registered Data:

ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation) Launched in July 2009, aRDi is a program developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and its publishing partners in the fields of science and technology For developing countries – to support global knowledge economy and creation/development of new solutions to technical challenges on local and global level Became R4L partner program - July 2011 Eligible institutions are patent offices and academic and research institutions 12 publishers; access to >200 journals for 107 countries

Registration

Journal Access Options

Titles Organized Alphabetically

Searching by Title

Subject Access Options

Titles by Subject

Searching by Subject

Searching by Language

Titles by Language Click on the link to the ‘Languages’ category list – to view the drop down menu of journals by language; choose the language you prefer. e.g. French

Searching by Language Click on the link to the Languages category list – to view the drop down menu of journals by language; choose the language you prefer. e.g. French.

Publisher Access Option

Titles by Publisher

Searching by Publisher

Books Access Options

Retrieving Full-Text Books

Searching for Books

Searching Options – PubMed (HINARI)

Results of the search are displayed in the main body of the page in Summary Format, 20 Items per Page and Recently Added Sort by options. This is the default setting when you complete a search. Note the two additional filters for Free Full Text and HINARI articles. These have been created in the HINARI/PubMed searches saved in My NCBI (see module 4.5). Of the 4237 articles, 2030 are available via the HINARI filter and 1717 with Free full text filter ( there are some overlaps).

Filters

Advanced Search

Using CAB Abstracts (AGORA)

Using the Search Wizard

Scopus (AGORA)

Scopus (Elsevier) - same as AGORA

Environmental Index (EBSCO)

Advanced Search

Environmental Science and Pollution Management (CSA)

Other Resources - HINARI

Other Resources - AGORA

Other Resources - OARE

Training Material (HINARI)

Training Material (AGORA)

Training Material (OARE)

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