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Publisher of the Month: Brill

Brill is an active participating publishing partner in the Research4Life network. The global academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law and Biology traces its history back to the 17th century Netherlands and the university town of Leiden. The academic community

National Research4Life Workshop: HINARI Training in Georgia

Sponsored by the World Health Organisation and Librarians Without Borders, a three day ‘HINARI Train the Trainers’ workshop was held last April in Tbilisi, Georgia. A total of 25 participants completed the course. Attendants included a mix of physicians/clinicians, researchers, librarians, IT staff and

‘Making a Difference’: Where Are They Now? – Dr. Tim Meade

Tags: SDG3 Good Health, SDG4 Quality Education

Tiny Tim & Friends (TTF) in Lusaka, Zambia How access to scientific literature crucially improves the lives of affected children, adolescents and pregnant women from some of the most economically deprived compounds in Lusaka, Zambia.By Nina Elsemueller Four years ago

Access to online resources is transforming health and environmental research

In 2007, when he first joined Makerere University in Uganda as an agricultural librarian trainee, Onan Mulumba spent most of his time re-shelving books. Now he accesses thousands of online journals, books and databases to help farmers deal with

Free AGORA online course

Tags: SDG2 Zero Hunger

If you are a researcher, librarian or a professional working in Agriculture, the new AGORA online course is for you. Delivered online through the ITOCA Moodle platform, the course takes around 6-8 hours to complete, is self-paced and contains a short

Post-Graduate TEEAL Research Paper Competition 2015

A Research Paper Competition for African Post-Graduate Students ITOCA in collaboration with Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University is pleased to announce the TEEAL Post-Graduate Research Paper Competition 2015 for post graduate students from six eligible African countries (Burkina Faso,

One Month of Free Access to Around 1,700 Scientific Journals

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If you are a researcher from an emerging region, you can register for the STAR program providing one month of free access to around 1,700 international and regional journals. The STAR program provides access to a full range of journal titles by Taylor

Publisher of the Month – Oxford University Press

Tags: publishers, training

Our Publisher of the Month is OUP (Oxford University Press). OUP is one of our founding partners providing its high-quality resources for free or at a low cost to eligible countries. In addition, OUP participates in a wide range of developing country initiatives, including INASP

New Mendeley Certification Program for Librarians

Tags: training

With the new program librarians can get certified and obtain a Premium Upgrade for 500 users at their institution for free. Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help researchers organize their papers, collaborate with others online, and

Grey Literature resources

What is Grey Literature? Grey literature is defined as ‘that which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers.’[1] Examples include technical reports from governmental,

A librarian working with doctors to save lives

Tags: SDG3 Good Health, SDG4 Quality Education

In this new video, we follow Nasra Gathoni for a day in her job as Librarian at the Aga Kahn University library.

Free Science E-books on the Internet

Tags: training

Today, Research4Life users can find up to 30,000 science related books available from our platform depending on the publishers’ granting access to countries and institutions. This material can be expanded with free e-books from several Internet sites. In our recent

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