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The Research4Life team has been working on improving our portals and services and is pleased to announce several enhancements for Research4Life programme users: From the beginning of this year, all institutions registered for any of the Research4Life programmes  (Hinari, AGORA, OARE and ARDI) get access to all portals with their credentials.

Upon request of the National Technical Institute of Agriculture and Fisheries (INTA) in Nicaragua, the AGORA team of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with FAO Nicaragua, organized a four-hour online training for the INTA team at the central level and their remotely connected colleagues from the six regions. In total 38 staff members of the Institute participated to jointly discover the AGORA platform and collection for the first time. At the central level 15 colleagues followed the training together on a big screen, while at the same time practicing on their laptops.

As per January 2018 Research4Life has reached more than 80,000 journals, books and other resources through its four programmes: AGORA, Hinari, OARE and ARDI.   [su_row class=””] [su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=””] Hinari Journals: up to 14,000Books: up to 56,000Other info

OBJECTIVE: Knowledge sharing & experience capitalization on how to use the AGORA platform to access an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. WHEN : 27-28 November 2017 WHERE : Chisinau, Republic

(Image source: Open Educational Resources: Global Report 2017, CommonWealth of Learning, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License) AGORA Online Course entitled “Fundamentals of Information Literacy and Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture” was held between 23 October- 5 November

The Medical Library Association (MLA) has announced the Hinari/Research4Life (R4L) Grants for 2018. Funded by the Elsevier Foundation, up to five awards, will support Hinari/R4L training activities that promote the use of the programs’ scientific research resources in emerging/low income

A new Hinari Users course will be available for free to users in registered institutions. The two-week distance learning course focuses on the basic skills needed to effectively access and download full-text material from Hinari. You will also learn how

We are pleased to announce that REGISTRATION is now OPEN (till October 15th; Sunday 23:00 CEST) for the 4th edition of the online  Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture (ASIRA) course ! This course edition runs for 3 weeks between 30th October and 19th November 2017. The main goal of the course is to

Looking for legal information in a developing country? Stay tuned for a new programme coming in 2018 as part of the Research4Life partnership. A new Research4Life programme, GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information) will join the Research4Life partnership and will

An overview of the Research4Life Capacity Development workshops by country and funding organization. Click map to enlarge • Hinari   • AGORA  • ARDI  • Others Hinari Bangladesh Hinari Training Workshop 2,3 and 4. WHO Bangladesh Country Office. August 2016. Research4Life:

AGORA Team is pleased to offer an online course for AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture), one of the four programmes of Research4Life. This online course is provided by the Partnerships and South-South Cooperation Division (DPS) at the Food and Agriculture

Research4Life and INASP present “Information in Action: Celebrating Research Advocacy Champions” a booklet made in partnership with INASP that showcases the best stories from the 2016 Research4Life/INASP Advocacy Competition   width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"> In 2016, Research4Life and INASP launched