Research4Life is a platform and website dedicated to making peer-reviewed knowledge public to students and researchers in lower income countries. Research4Life provides free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.[1] In 2021 Research4Life offered 132,000 leading journals and books in the fields of health, agriculture, environment, applied sciences and legal information.[2]
Formation | 2002 |
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Type | Non-profit |
Organization
editPartners
editResearch4Life is led by an Executive Council and several supporting teams of representatives from a variety of partner organizations, including:[3]
- Cornell University
- Elsevier
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- Information Training & Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA)
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- Librarians Without Borders
- Oxford University Press
- Portsys
- STM
- Taylor & Francis Group
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- Yale University Library
Programs
editResearch4Life consists of five programs:
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ "Our commitment to universal access to medical research § About Research4Life". The Lancet. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- ^ ‘Trends, Challenges, and Needs of Research in the Global South: Learnings as Research4Life turns 20’. In: "Scholarly Kitchen", 7 July 2021
- ^ "Governance". Research4Life. Archived from the original on 2023-07-05. Retrieved 2023-07-05.