1. Research4Life Advocacy Toolkit
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2. What is Research4Life?
The collective name for the five programmes – Hinari, AGORA, OARE, ARDI and GOALI– that provide developing countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer- reviewed content online.
Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, ILO, Cornell and Yale Universities, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and up to 185 international publishers.
The goal of Research4Life is to reduce the knowledge gap between high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries by providing affordable access to scholarly, professional and research information.

3. Resarch4Life at a glance
Institutions Countries Publishers
8, More than Up to 180

4. Programmes Hinari (Research in Health) managed by WHO
AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) managed by FAO
OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment) managed by UNEP
ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation) managed by WIPO
GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information) managed by ILO

5. Access to the leading academic publishers

6. Hinari AGORA OARE ARDI GOALI Up to 85,000 resources in total
13, , ,500 7, ,800
60, , , , ,900
69, , , , ,000
Up to 85,000 resources in total
Journals
e-Books
Other resources
TOTAL

7. Eligibility Group A countries Free Access
Group B Countries Low-cost Access

8. Access Easy online registration to Research4LIfe
Institutional login to multiple programmes
Content portals with search options in multiple languages
Articles available to download as PDF

9. Training Opportunities
Online Training:
Research4Life offers free downloadable modules on different topics as well as online courses to learn how to use the different programme platforms. Users can also become trainers following a Train the Trainers programme.
Face to Face Training:
Research4Life trainers conduct in site training in different countries around the world with the collaboration of UN agencies and University Libraries

10. The value of Research4Life
An average journal subscription costs approx*: US$ 1,731
Research4Life provides access to: ,000 Journals**
Total monetary value provided to each institution: US$ 34’620’000
* Based on LJ Periodicals Price Survey
**Publishers have the option to choose whether provide access or not to specific content in specific countries

11. Average price for online journals according to LJ periodicals price survey 2017

12. Why is access to research important?
My access to OARE when I did my PhD programme did not only enable me as a person achieve my target but also to improve the quality of life among the Ogiek people in Mauche and Newsiit where diarrhoea and coughs, among other preventable ailments, have been ravaging lives of children and many adults in a vicious disease circle.” Wilkista Nyaora Moturi, Head of Environment Studies Department, Egerton University, Kenya
Scientific journals are very important in the developing world because they give the scientists– the knowledge, the cutting edge information so that they can be able to fight diseases… Programmes like HINARI, AGORA and OARE…give access to many in the developing world. …this ensures that…scientific knowledge also comes to the scientists so that they can add their own innovation…adapt it to their own environments and really work on the solutions” Gracian Chimwaza, Executive Director of ITOCA (Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa), Pretoria, South Africa
In medical work and in training and in research, information is something very crucial…We need to know what is done elsewhere. Before we knew about Hinari finding information was very difficult. Hinari [helps] us to have the data we need in real time. We just have to go to the website, do…the appropriate search and then we can download the resources that are there….It solves…problem of train and treating patient[s].” Dr. Mahammoud Jaro, Urologist, Dakar Senegal

13. The value of Libraries
Easy access to peer-reviewed scientific literature is a key foundation for quality research
“Access to high-quality content is crucial to research, and its value is recognised by researchers, senior managers and librarians alike. Libraries spend huge amounts to sustain and develop their collections, and researchers across the sector now have access to more content than ever before.” (1)
(1) The value of libraries for research and researchers. A RIN and RLUK report March 2011.

14. Repositories increase the visibility of the institution and raise its research profile
“Repositories are only as valuable as the content they hold, and now the focus is on increasing the volume of content, by making it routine for researchers to deposit their outputs to make them visible.
Libraries are now playing an increasing role in educating researchers and building more effective procedures and approaches across the institution.”