From: "Dollar, Daniel" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:22:16 +0000
Over 85,000 resources available to researchers, doctors, NGOs and
policymakers to boost evidence based research, healthcare, policymaking and
global justice.
*Washington DC, USA*, July 24, 2018
The Research4Life
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partners
announced today that they have agreed to extend their partnership through
2025. Research4Life (www.research4life.org
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currently provides over 8,500 institutions in more than 100 developing
countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed eResources from the
world’s leading scholarly publishers. The renewed commitment will ensure
that the nearly 85,000 peer reviewed academic journals, books and databases
from some 200 scholarly publishers
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available through the public-private Research4life partnership will
continue to reach research communities in low- and middle-income countries.
Daniel M. Dollar, Chair of the Research4Life Executive Committee and
Associate University Librarian for Collections, Preservation, and Digital
Scholarship at Yale University Library, said, “The partnership’s
overwhelming support to extend the Research4Life mandate to 2025 recognizes
the programme’s success in reducing the knowledge gap between high, middle,
and low income countries through capacity building and affordable access to
scholarly, professional and research information. Research4Life is a
shining example of public and private organizations coming together with a
shared vision of the power of information to improve people’s lives.”
One of the beneficiaries of Research4life, Dr. Alice Matimba, a researcher
and senior lecturer at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the
University of Zimbabwe, transformed the treatment offered to patients
diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy and other eye complications by
successfully advocating for a policy of investment in the advanced
technology and services needed to tackle the burden of diabetes in
Zimbabwe. She notes, “Thanks to Research4Life for providing digital access
to evidence-based scientific information, we were finally capable of doing
a review of the literature which confirmed our hypothesis. It enabled
flexibility of research ideas which would lead to solutions. We were able
to find the best literature suited for our needs.”
Richelle Van Snellenberg, GOALI Programme Manager and Head of the ILO
Library in Geneva, “As the newest Research4Life programme which seeks to
improve access to legal information in developing countries, and ultimately
social justices, GOALI would like to underscore our admiration and
commitment to this longstanding and effective public private access
partnership across so many critical UN Sustainable Development Goal
priorities.”
“It is rewarding to see that the Research4Life partners are working closely
together and strengthening the partnership further with a mandate extended
to 2025. The Research4Life programmes are an important source of knowledge
for researchers in developing countries around the globe. In the AGORA
programme, we have supported agricultural research in middle- and
low-income countries since 2003 and are happy to continue providing
training and access to information to the many institutions that are
eligible to benefit from the partnership,” says Imma Subirats, AGORA
Programme Manager, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO).
Richard Gedye, Director of Outreach Programmes for the International
Association of Scientific, Technical, Medical Publishers (STM), “As the
Research4Life publisher liaison, it is a pleasure to reinforce publishers’
deep commitment to Research4Life and its mission to bridge the digital
divide for researchers, policymakers, legal scholars and healthcare
professionals. Our collaboration speaks for itself: over the past 17 years,
we have helped to grow the research available in Research4Life from 1500
journals to 85,000 peer reviewed resources.”
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*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 175 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. Since 2002, the five programmes – Research in Health (Hinari),
Research in Agriculture (AGORA), Research in the Environment (OARE),
Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) and Research for Global
Justice (GOALI) – have provided researchers at more than 8500 institutions
in more than 115 low- and middle-income countries with free or low-cost
online access to up to 85,000 leading journals and books in the fields of
health, agriculture, environment, and applied sciences.
*Media contact:*
Natalia Rodriguez
Research4Life Communications Coordinator
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Original Announcement: https://www.research4life.org/
research4life-commits-to-provide-access-and-training-through-2025/
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