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« More than two billion people don’t have access to basic sanitation facilities » – Why water research matters
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22 March marks World Water Day, a UN initiative to raise awareness about the importance of freshwater. To celebrate this day, we are highlighting IWA Publishing.
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From playing cricket to supporting health researchers: Research4Life’s user representative talks about his work as a librarian in Nepal
To make sure users’ needs are well-represented, Research4Life has two user representatives. Read our interview with one of them: Chandra Bhushan Yadav from Nepal.
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How Research4Life helps medical researchers perform systematic reviews
Librarian Xan Goodman travelled to Nigeria for a workshop on using Research4Life for health research. The impact she made with those workshops is still noticeable today.
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First Research4Life MOOC: “I now have a clearer concept of the hidden world of academia”
2,207 people from 95 countries joined the first Research4Life MOOC. The next edition will run in 2020.
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E-resources and referencing training workshops for DAAD scholars in Tanzania
Earlier this year, the Information and Training Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA) and the Germany Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) held two e-resources and referencing trainings for selected scholars in Tanzania.
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Research4Life workshop focuses on information resources related to land
During the recent State of Land Data & Information in East Africa workshop from 8 to 10 May in Nairobi, Kenya, Research4Life organised a session to present the Research4Life programmes, focusing on information related to legal resources and land.
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“There is good quality content available, but not everyone knows about it”
Starting in July, professor Edda Tandi Lwoga from the College of Business Education in Dar es salaam, Tanzania will be Research4Life’s official user representative. We spoke to her about her work and motivations.
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The first Research4Life training empowering African trainers on legal research
The first GOALI training introducing experienced trainers to legal research took place in January 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information) is the newest Research4Life programme promoting access to legal content from top academic publishers
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Promoting digital access to research in least developed countries
1,400 librarians, researchers and students from 10 countries have learnt how to access and search digital scientific and academic information provided by Research4Life partners in the framework of a new activity of the UN’s Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries.
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Interview with Kimberly Parker, Research4Life/Hinari Programme Manager
Kimberly Parker, Hinari programme manager, answers some questions about the Research4Life Access to Health programme  width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"> The interview was held during the 65th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean, hosted by the Government
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Call for Research4Life user experiences from the global South
If your institution is located in one of the Research4Life eligible countries and has already joined Research4Life‘s international network, you can access and fully explore resources of interest shared by tens of thousands of leading journals and e-books in the
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Research4Life at OpenCon 2018 satellite event
At the next OpenCon satellite event in New York City, Research4Life will give a presentation about its programmes, including how to access information resources using Hinari, AGORA and GOALI. The Conference theme is « Access for all? Equity of access to information,
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