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Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) User guide Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) User guide

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Providing access to paywalled scientific literature to organizations in low-income member countries

Access to relevant and current AGORA is a programme of Research4Life So far, more than 9 000 institutions in knowledge is central to ensuring the – a public-private partnership between over 120 low and middle-income quality of graduate training and Cornell and Yale Universities, FAO, the countries have accessed up to 104 000 research. However, universities from International Association of Scientific, leading journals and books in the fields low-income countries are faced with Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), of agriculture, applied sciences, the challenge of providing students the International Labour Organization environment and health. and research teams with access to (ILO), the United Nations Environment relevant knowledge resources. This is Programme (UNEP), the World Health This user guide has been developed to due to the prohibitive costs associated Organization (WHO) and the World provide information on AGORA and with knowledge acquisition. Intellectual Property Organization Research4Life, as well as on how to (WIPO). Research4Life is the collective support partner organizations in eligible Since 2003, the Food and Agriculture name for five programmes that provide countries to use the platform. The first Organization of the United Nations (FAO) developing countries with free or low- part of this guide provides general has led the Access to Global Online cost access to academic and professional information for all countries and the Research in Agriculture (AGORA) peer-reviewed content online. The five second part provides more specific programme, which provides free or programmes are Research in Health information for the countries that are low-cost access to major scientific journals (Hinari), Research in Agriculture eligible for Research4Life. and books. The aim of the programme is (AGORA), Research in the Environment to improve the quality and effectiveness (OARE) and Research for Development of agricultural research, education and and Innovation (ARDI), and Global Online training in low-income countries. Access to Legal Information (GOALI).

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02 08 18 28 AGORA and Research4Life Using the portal Troubleshooting and support Further information

03 About AGORA and Research4Life 09 Access to AGORA 19 Frequently asked questions (FAQs) 29 Publications 03 AGORA – Research in Agriculture 11 Browse AGORA portal 29 Videos 04 Hinari – Research in Health 11 By title (journals and e-books) 29 Training materials 04 OARE – Research in the 12 By subject 29 Recordings of webinars Environment 13 By language 29 Other useful resources to 04 ARDI – Research for Development access information and Innovation 14 By publisher 30 Quick overview of AGORA and 04 GOALI – Global Access to 15 Open access resources Research4Life Legal Information 16 Reference resources 30 IP-based access is available for 05 Content 17 Search across AGORA most FAO offices, with automatic login 06 Eligible countries and institutions 07 Partners

07 Impact 07 AGORA and Research4Life in FAO

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About AGORA and Impact Research4Life AGORA and AGORA and Content Research4Life in FAO Eligible countries Partners Research4Life and institutions

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About AGORA and Research4Life

The high cost of subscriptions for scientific literature has long been prohibitive for many universities and research institutes in low and middle-income countries.

The AGORA programme provides free Cornell and Yale Universities, the AGORA – Research in Agriculture or low-cost access to major scientific International Association of Scientific, Launched in 2003, AGORA is managed journals in the fields of agriculture and Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) by FAO in partnership with Cornell Thank you very much related biological, environmental and and up to 160 international publishers. University and major scientific publishers. social sciences to public institutions in The goal of Research4Life is to reduce AGORA provides access to thousands of for accepting our low-income countries. Launched in the knowledge gap between high-income journals, e-books, and other information October 2003, AGORA provides countries and low and middle-income resources covering agriculture, fisheries, registration to use the access to journals and books from the countries by providing affordable access food, nutrition, veterinary science and online AGORA journals. world’s leading academic publishers. to critical scientific research. Since 2002, related biological, environmental and AGORA is one of the five programmes the five programmes – Research in social sciences in public institutions I believe that this is the that make up Research4Life. Health (Hinari), Research in Agriculture across the world. The goal of AGORA is bridge that will give our (AGORA), Research in the Environment to improve the quality and effectiveness Research4Life is a public-private (OARE), Research for Development and of agricultural research, education and scientists the chance to partnership of World Health Organization Innovation (ARDI) and Research for training in low-income countries, and in (WHO), Food and Agriculture Global Justice (GOALI) – have provided turn, to improve food security. Through update their research.” Organization of the United Nations researchers with free or low-cost online AGORA, researchers, policy-makers, Institute of Marine Environment (FAO), International Labour Organization access to knowledge resources. So far, educators, students, technical workers and Resources, Vietnam (ILO), United Nations Environment more than 9 000 institutions in over 120 and extension specialists have digital Programme (UNEP), World Intellectual low and middle-income countries have access to high-quality, relevant and Property Organization (WIPO), accessed up to 104 000 leading journals timely agricultural information. International Association of Scientific, and books in the fields of agriculture, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), applied sciences, environment and health.

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Hinari – Research in Health OARE – Research in the Launched in 2002, the Hinari Research for Environment Health programme is managed by WHO Launched in 2006, OARE (Online Access OARE will play a key contribution to our in partnership with Yale University Library to Research in the Environment) is and a group of international publishers. managed by UNEP in partnership with knowledge of the natural environment… Public institutions in eligible countries Yale University and a group of [and] stimulate better resource management have access to thousands of journals (in a international publishers. OARE provides wide array of different languages), access to thousands of journals, e-books, geared to empower our efforts to fight e-books, and other information and other information resources in a wide resources. The journals can be searched range of disciplines contributing to our poverty and create livelihoods.” through a special version of PubMed understanding of the natural Minister of Environment, Sudan (Medline) and through other article environment, including botany, indexes. climatology, conservation policy and planning, ecology, environmental biotechnology, environmental chemistry, ARDI – Research for GOALI – Research for Global environmental economics, energy, environmental engineering, Development and Innovation Justice Hinari is essential for environmental law and policy, ARDI (Access to Research for GOALI (Global Access to Legal environmental toxicology and pollution, Development and Innovation) was Information) is the newest programme this institution to meet geography, geology, hydrology, launched in 2009 and is coordinated by within Research4Life in the field of law the demands of the meteorology, oceanography, zoology WIPO and its partners in the publishing and social justice. Launched in 2018, and many others. industry. The aim of the programme is to GOALI is managed by ILO and provides academic staff and with promote the integration of developing free or low-cost online access to legal and least developed countries into the research and training in the developing the dwindling funds for global knowledge economy, allowing world. GOALI is a public-private journal subscriptions. them to more fully realize their creative partnership of ILO as a UN agency, and innovative potential. By improving together with Brill Nijhoff, the We have seen Hinari access to scholarly literature from diverse International Training Centre of the ILO, fields of science and technology, ARDI is and academic partners Cornell Law transform institutions designed to reinforce the knowledge School Library and the Lillian Goldman like ours.” infrastructure in developing and least Law Library at Yale Law School. Users can developed countries, and to support access thousands of peer-reviewed Gwagwalada Specialist researchers in creating and developing journals and e-books in selected subject Hospital, Nigeria new solutions to technical challenges areas of law from the world’s leading faced on a local and global level. academic publishers.

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Content Scientific research is critical to advance higher education, improve the work of development practitioners, inform public Thank you for this policy decisions, and prepare tomorrow’s development and leaders. However, the world’s poorest countries are too often left out of the new addition to the global scientific community, and much Research4Life resources scientific research conducted in low- income countries reflects this. and access points. I wish

Researchers, policy-makers, students and to register my thanks teachers working in low-income countries for AGORA which we have historically suffered from a lack of access to up-to-date scientific literature, have continued to access essential for furthering studies, discovering since the beginning!” evidence, sharing findings, teaching, practice, and public policy. Subscription- Uganda based journals remain the most important source of high-quality scientific information for the research community, with scientific research critical to advance higher education, improve the work of development practitioners and inform public policy decisions.

AGORA – and all of the other Research4Life programmes – offer a variety of ways to search scientific content. Anyone can browse AGORA’s collection of journals without logging in, and access the publishers’ websites and abstracts of journal articles. However, only staff at eligible, registered institutions can log in to access full-text articles. © AdobeStock

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Eligible countries and institutions Eligibility of a country depends on key Eligible institutions whose staff and factors related to the country’s wealth students may have access to the journals and consequently, whether it falls into are: agricultural extension centres, the ‘Group A’ or a ‘Group B’ category. government offices and libraries, Group A countries can access research institutes, and universities and Research4Life content for free. colleges. International organizations are Institutions in the Group B country, area not eligible. All eligible institutions that or territory, can access the Research4Life register and are accepted in Group B resources at a cost of USD 1 500 per receive a six month trial without payment. institution per calendar year (from If an national institution in this low-cost January through December). These access group cannot or chooses not to Group B funds are collected and used by pay the annual fee, the institution will still UN agencies for outreach activities be eligible for free access to a small related to capacity development training number of information resources. of member institutions, and promotion Many countries are eligible, but not all. of Research4Life resources. Access Eligibility status can be found at: http:// always covers the five Research4life www.fao.org/agora/eligibility/en/ programmes and only one registration is required.

Group A Countries Free access to all Research4Life programmes Group B Countries Access to all Research4Life programmes is granted for a small fee (USD 1500 per year) © AdobeStock

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Impact AGORA and Research4Life Many see higher education as a critical Most of the world’s leading scientific in FAO Partners include frontline to improve the development journal publishers participate in the Access to AGORA and Research4Life will the world’s leading environment in low and middle-income Research4Life programmes, and the allow FAO staff to increase their knowledge countries, where tomorrow’s leaders in total value of access to the five of the programmes and how to use the scientific publishers, the public and private sectors are trained collections is estimated to be in excess of information they take from them. This will Cornell and Yale and new ideas are advanced. Education USD 31 000 000 per registered institution. allow users to better inform local partners provides the crossroads where people Previously, the resource has therefore of its purpose and how they can benefit University Libraries, interact with their peers around the mainly only been made available to from the Research4Lif programme. FAO world, especially in this age of the institutions with the ability to pay. works with many partners in country FAO, ILO, STM, internet. New opportunities for offices worldwide that may be eligible to UNEP, WHO, WIPO international collaboration are available. access Research4Life, and which would There is also a growing recognition of benefit highly from the current scientific and other technical what developing country researchers information it offers. Please inform them partners. have to offer to their peers in other about the AGORA and Research4Life, countries (so called ‘south-to-south’ and how to register with the platform and ‘south-to north’ exchange). Improving its benefits. the quality of and capacity for rigorous local research is a key aspect of improving higher education opportunities in developing countries. USD31million Estimated total value of access to the five collections per institution

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Access to AGORA Browse AGORA portal Using the Open access resources portal Search across AGORA

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Access to AGORA

Research4Life requires an institutional registration

Since institutional libraries are the Once a user is logged in, access to all five main contact points for Research4Life, programmes of Research4Life will be it is recommended to contact the granted. The login tab is highlighted on institutional library in order to enquire FAO’s AGORA’s programme webpage as if the access to AGORA has been shown in Figure 1. granted and request the login details. The AGORA website is user friendly and In case the library cannot help, easy to navigate. The top banner please contact Research4Life at provides links to its background and [email protected] content. AGORA’s content and resources are accessible when the user Is logged in to the content portal.

A user from a registered institution will go straight to the ‘Login AGORA’ tab as highlighted in a red box in Figure 1. In Right: Figure 1 case the user is not logged in, a Login FAO AGORA for access reminder will appear at the webpage right-top of the screen as indicated in highlighting Figure 2. ‘content portal’ and ‘Login AGORA’

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The other option to access AGORA is to Once logged in, the programme Below left: use the Research4Life webpage as selection page will appear as below Figure 2 Login page of mentioned above. In both cases, the user (Figure 3). In order to visualize, search or Research4Life will be prompted to enter login browse the content under AGORA, the Research4life could help our new institute AGORA credentials (see Figure 2). AGORA button needs to be pressed. Please note that institutions registered to access to high-quality and relevant Below: Figure 3 The username and password are case- for Research4Life have access to all five Research4Life scientific literature, to improve our programme sensitive, and no blank spaces are programmes. Depending on the user’s selection page allowed. If the institution has network research domain, other Research4Life research in relevant fields regarding to wide IP-based access to AGORA, users programmes can also be explored. our specializations and the quality and will not be asked for credentials within the institution’s premises and will be effectiveness of education and training.” automatically logged in. Burkina Faso

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Browse the AGORA portal

AGORA content is browsable by subject, language, publisher, and titles, both in journal and e-book collections.

By title (journals and e-books) AGORA journals and electronic book ‘View complete list of books’ (or journals) collections are alphabetically listed on will display every title in that category the landing page. Browsing titles can be available within the AGORA programme. particularly important for those who However, the titles on the complete list would like to access a specific title. It is are not clickable links. The ‘Accessible possible to see either the full title list or content’ will display only the titles which select a letter which indicates the first are available to eligible institutions. letter in the name of a journal and book. Some institutions may not be granted Once a letter is selected from the access to some titles, and this is alphabetical list of journals/books to indicated with a grey button next to browse for a specific journal/e-book, a title. A green button next to a title the name of the journals/e-books will confirms that users have access to appear on the page. As highlighted in that title. red boxes in Figure 4 opposite, there is a choice to see only ‘Accessible content’ or ‘All items’.

Above: Figure 4 Browse AGORA content by title

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By subject AGORA accommodates a wide range of carefully selected subject headings for its content. Available subjects are agriculture, animal science, applied microbiology, biology (general), biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology and chemistry, development studies, ecology, economics and social science, entomology, environment, fisheries/ aquatic science, food science/ nutrition, forests/ forestry, natural resources, pest control, and plant and soil science. To browse AGORA content by subject (only journals), the ‘Subject’ button should be clicked – as indicated in the highlighted red box in Figure 5. The user can then choose a subject from the drop-down menu. Titles in each subject category will be displayed on the screen.

Figure 5 Browse AGORA content by subject

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By language AGORA content is available in a number of languages from French to Russian, which provides diversity for AGORA content and helps users retrieve resources in their own language as well as improving local research. However, English is generally still the main journal publishing language. The ‘Language’ button should be selected to browse AGORA content by language – as indicated in the highlighted red box in Figure 6 – and the user should then choose a language from the drop-down menu. Titles in each language category will be displayed on the screen.

Figure 6 Browse AGORA content by language

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By publisher AGORA content is made available to users by collaboration with publishers. Their commitment is essential in making Research4Life resources accessible to low and middle-income countries. A number of publishers are part of the AGORA programme and these include Annual Reviews, BioOne, Botanical Society of America, CABI Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, F1000Research, Oxford University Press, Sage Publishing, Springer Nature, and Taylor and Francis.

To browse AGORA content by publisher, the ‘Publisher’ button should be clicked as indicated in the highlighted red box in Figure 7 opposite, and the specific publisher selected from the drop-down menu. Titles by each publisher will be displayed on the screen.

Above: Figure 7 Browse AGORA by publisher

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Open access resources

Nowadays, there are many quality open access resources available for the scientific community.

AGORA accommodates a wide range of open access resources in its content, including from hybrid open access journals, which have some articles as open access or fully open access journals.

The main source for AGORA is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and all open access journals in AGORA and Research4Life programmes must be indexed in DOAJ. When browsing or searching across AGORA content through the online search engine Summon, these open access journal titles and articles will be available among other resources.

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AGORA also offers a list of free access Top: platforms under ‘Free Collections’. This Figure 8 List of platforms list includes books, data, journals and with free access report resources that cover titles in collections agricultural sciences (see Figure 8). Bottom: Figure 9 Reference resources AGORA reference Reference resources are vital to find sources primary sources, research or everyday information needs. AGORA lists reference resources on the main page, under ‘Reference sources’ in agriculture- related areas as well as in general subjects (see Figure 9).

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Search across AGORA

Besides browsing for content on AGORA, one can also search across all the available resources in AGORA using the Summon and Google Scholar online search engines.

They can be used to complete As of July 2019, the Summon search box Search results are displayed by relevancy keyword searches and link to full-text became sensitive to the account that is with year and date options. Results documents available from the logged in. When using the search box contain brief abstracts with links to Research4Life participating publishers. on any Research4Life content page, full-text documents. For journals, the This is very good and Since the tools access different sets of Summon automatically performs the citations will contain links to the full it will impact our social resources, the features of each will be search in the appropriate country- texts from Research4Life participating discussed separately. specific Summon environment. Summon publishers’ portals, plus titles that and local community. identifies the publishers’ in-country offers commercial publishers grant access to, Summon is a Google-like search engine which grant access to their resources. open access articles and pre-publication Focusing on sustainable that provides fast, relevancy-ranked documents. Citations can be saved to a development, this results. Search terms can be entered into Google Scholar can be used to broadly user’s reference library or exported to a a single search box or via the ‘Advanced search for scholarly literature. Users can bibliographic management software. contribute more and it Search’ option. The results of the search search across disciplines, sources and can improve standard are displayed with links directly to the full results for abstracts, articles, books, Note – in order to have the Research4Life text online and/or preview (abstract). theses, etc. from academic publishers, full text links, users must be logged in to (of) livelihood of today.” Searches can be refined based on online repositories, professional societies one of the five programmes when searching content type, discipline, publication and universities. in Google Scholar. From any Research4Life Rwanda date and other details. Citations from programme content page, click on searches can be saved with options to ‘Databases for discovery’ and select email, print or export to bibliographic Google Scholar. Google Scholar makes management software. use of the country IP lists that are seen by the publishers when the user is logged in.

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Troubleshooting and support

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Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

What are Group A and Group B? What are the technical requirements for The Research4Life access offer includes two groups accessing AGORA, ARDI, GOALI, Hinari, of countries, areas, or territories: Group A and Group and OARE? B. Registered institutions in Group A countries can Users need a computer connected to the internet. access Research4Life free of charge, while institutions The AGORA, ARDI, GOALI, Hinari, and OARE portals in Group B countries may access the Research4Life work with recent versions of the most standard web programmes for a small yearly fee. browsers. Users also need a recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader to access journal articles in PDF.

How can I register for the Research4Life programmes? My institution’s firewall is blocking Eligible institutions are: agricultural extension access. What are the domain names centres, government offices, healthcare centres, that need to be allowed for the local non-governmental organizations, national libraries, national universities, professional schools authentication system? (agriculture, engineering, medicine, pharmacy, Please ask your institution’s IT group to add public health, etc.), research institutes and teaching permission for the following domains: hospitals located in an eligible country, area or • login.research4life.org territory. The following categories of institutions • sts.research4life.org are not eligible for Research4Life, even if the office • stsr4l.who.int is located in an eligible country, area or territory: • extranet.who.int commercial companies and institutions, individual • www.research4life.org persons, international or regional organizations, and member-based associations and societies.

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Once an institution is registered, What are the technical requirements for who can access AGORA, ARDI, GOALI, accessing AGORA, ARDI, GOALI, Hinari, Hinari, and OARE? and OARE? Once the Research4Life team has processed your Users need a computer connected to the internet. completed registration form, your director and The AGORA, ARDI, GOALI, Hinari, and OARE portals librarian will be contacted and given detailed work with recent versions of the most standard web instructions on how to access and use the system. browsers. Users also need a recent version of Adobe All staff (researchers, teaching and administrative Acrobat Reader to access journal articles in PDF. staff) and students of a registered institution are eligible to access the programmes, as long as they abide by the guidelines within the license agreement. On-site visitors may use the collections if a staff I received a login error message noting member logs in with their account. that the page was accessed from an unauthorized URL, what is the problem? It is likely that your cache has stored login details My institution’s firewall is blocking from a past session. To avoid the memory cache problem, we suggest you try logging into access. What are the domain names Research4Life using a private browser window. that need to be allowed for the This will prevent the browser from saving login authentication system? details, and you will be able to login again later Please ask your institution’s IT group to add without any issues. permission for the following domains: • In Firefox, right click on the Menu icon, and then • login.research4life.org click on ‘New Private Window’. • sts.research4life.org • In Chrome, right click on the Menu icon, and then • stsr4l.who.int click on ‘New Incognito Window’. • extranet.who.int • In Internet Explorer, click on the ‘Tools’ menu, and • www.research4life.org then click on ‘InPrivate Browsing’. • Once in the private/incognito window, you can open a Research4Life session by connecting to login.research4life.org and selecting the programme you want to use.

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On the login page, when I select my What does my institution have to do to preferred language, why does the have an IP-based login? programme link on the landing page take In order for your institution to use its IPs to login to me to the English version of the portal? Research4Life without your username, we need you to register the fixed IPs in the IP registry. These IPs will The language choice on the login page is a be recognized by our authentication and you will not preference for your web browser and only affects the need to enter your user ID and password. authentication messages and errors. When you reach the content portal of the chosen Research4Life Please update your IP address list in the IP registry programme, you will still need to select the language and inform us at [email protected] when the of the portal. details are correct.

When I click on the login link for a I know that my institution is registered Research4Life programme, I’m not asked for Research4Life but I do not know the to enter a username or password. Instead, ID and password, what do I do? I am taken directly to the landing page You should contact your library or your director if your showing my programme options, why? institution doesn’t have a library. When an institution The authentication system may be logging you in registers, your library contact and the director of the based on your institution’s IP addresses, if those are institution will receive a welcome message with the ID on file with our partners at IP registry. and password.

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What can I do if my library contact and/ I am a librarian and I am about to or the director have changed, and the ID leave my institution. What should I do and password are lost? to make sure my institution will continue In order to update your institutional details, we to have access to Research4Life? need to regain communication with the official Please inform Research4Life helpdesk contacts at your institution. Please contact us at at [email protected] that you are leaving and [email protected] with complete information. provide us with the name and email address of the We will need officials from your institution to new contact person. request us to resend the ID and password to the new librarian and/or director. How can I access a particular journal? I am a user and am leaving my If you know the name of the journal that you wish to access after entering one of the programmes, go to institution. What are my possibilities ‘Find journals by title’ and click on the letter that to continue using Research4Life? corresponds to the first letter of the journal name. Once you leave an institution, you are not eligible This will bring you to a list of all journals that begin to use Research4Life with the access codes of that with that letter and that are offered through the institution. If you join a new institution, contact the relevant programme. Once you locate the title you librarian or the director to know if your new institution are searching for, click again, and you will be directed has access to Research4Life. If not, the librarian or to the journal’s homepage. director can register for access.

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Can I search by article title, author or How can my institution make specific subjects? the payment? Detailed searching for articles by title, author or Your institution can transfer USD 1500 subject can be done through the search bar on the directly into the WHO bank account provided opening page of each programme portal. in the invoice.

How much does Research4Life cost? My institution is in a Group B country, Access to Research4Life is free for eligible institutions but we cannot pay the fee. What content in Group A countries. The cost for eligible institutions can we still use? in Group B countries is USD 1 500 per institution per If your institution has not paid the annual fee with calendar year (from January through December). This Research4Life, it may interest you to know that cost remains the same no matter which month during some publishers allow free resource access to all the calendar year you choose to pay. For instance, if Research4Life registered users in A and B Group you pay in April, you will have access from April to countries. December of that calendar year.

Can someone other than the institution How long is the free trial for institutions pay on its behalf? in Group B countries, areas or territories? Yes. An individual or another organization may The free trial period lasts for six months. In order to sponsor the payment. To do so, they should contact continue receiving the full access relevant to your [email protected] providing the name(s) of the country, area or territory, you must submit a payment institution and their username(s). prior to the end of the trial. Instructions concerning the payment will be sent to you at the beginning of the free trial. You may alert [email protected] that a payment has been made to avoid loss of access at the end of the trial period.

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Can the payment be prorated if it is Can we supply students with paid during the middle of the year? Research4Life publications for courses? No. Payment is for a calendar year, from Academic and teaching staff may make copies in print 1 January to 31 December, and remains the same or digital form of articles for course packs. If the no matter when the payment is made. For example, copies are supplied in digital form, these electronic if payment is made in April, then the full amount copies must be deleted from the university server at the must be paid and access will continue only until end of the semester. 31 December of that year.

Can I access Research4Life outside of my Does one payment grant access to institution? all the Research4Life programmes? Access to the collections may only be provided from Yes, one payment for Research4Life will grant computers or other digital installations owned by, or access to all the programmes (AGORA, ARDI, under the direct control of, the institution, or from GOALI, Hinari, and OARE). personal computers owned by the employees, faculty or students of the institution.

Can I download complete journal issues or books? Are statistics on the use of No. However, you may download and save Research4Life available? limited numbers of articles or chapters from any Research4Life extracts statistics from logins by journal issue or book if the selection does not exceed user names. Statistics can be requested once 15 percent of its contents. a year by the institution.

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I am a book publisher, can my content I am a publisher of information resources be included in Research4life? (databases or reference works), can my Yes, Research4Life includes thousands of content be included in Research4Life? online books. Please contact us directly at Yes, depending on subject and relevance review. [email protected]. Please contact us directly at [email protected].

I am a journal publisher, can my content What can AGORA and Research4Life be included in Research4Life? do for our partners? For subscription-based journals, please contact us You may work with eligible national institutions directly at [email protected]. For open access who need up-to-date scientific information: be an journal(s), Research4Life works with DOAJ and will ambassador! Working with government agencies, only list journals that have been accepted for local non-profit organizations, local research inclusion in the directory. We recommend that you organizations and universities is an important aspect apply to them for inclusion after checking whether of our work at FAO. In many countries, access to your journal fulfils all of the criteria. If you have any quality and up-to-date research resources is still questions on the application process, you can contact scarce and supporting the local partners in this area DOAJ at [email protected]. Once listed in DOAJ, of work can play an important role. Many countries open access journal titles from relevant subjects are have free access, others can access the resources exported from DOAJ and uploaded into the relevant at a low cost. Research4Life content portals.

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How can I include AGORA and Where can I find promotional material? Research4Life in my country programme AGORA provides brochures in Arabic, English, or project? French and Spanish and they are available electronically at http://www.fao.org/agora/ The AGORA team at FAO will support you with the background/publications. If you wish to have them appropriate information and budget estimates. In an in print for your institutional use, please email us at eligible country, you could choose to organize an [email protected] for further communication. information campaign to ensure all relevant eligible institutions register for the programme, or organize AGORA also has general PowerPoint presentations capacity development activities to ensure the available that can be shared with FAO staff in institutions can make effective use of the English, French and Spanish, in case they are programmes. interested in presenting on AGORA in the office or to a partner organization. Available upon In a Group B country, you could add sponsorship request at [email protected] for institutions to your budget to help them cover the cost of USD 1 500 to access Research4Life (all programmes) for one year. For more information or support for proposal writing, contact [email protected]

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Where can I find capacity What other support can I get development materials? to promote and deliver capacity Capacity development is a central part development activities? of the Research4Life partnership. Every FAO staff can receive support from the AGORA team programme provides tailored trainings and to organize an in-country training, request a short complementary training material which can presentation for use within a technical workshop, a be found on the Research4Life homepage: customized online training or other support, upon http://www.research4life.org/training/ request to [email protected]

AGORA-specific capacity development AGORA collaborates with national institutions to conduct workshops which are usually planned for one or two How can national partners access days. The workshops generally cover information on information if I work in a country that is AGORA and Research4Life, complementary tools, not eligible for Research4Life? copyright licenses, open access and practical FAO staff can access the Research4life programme exercises. If you are interested in a national and resources in a country that is not eligible for workshop in your country, please contact us at Research4Life. However, national partners in [email protected] ineligible countries will not be able to register. Those not eligible for full access to Research4life AGORA also organizes free online Massive Open can still freely access abstracts of all the journals Online Courses (MOOC) on a regular basis, and the free full-text journals linked from the alternating online courses in English, French and programmes. A username is not needed to access Spanish. Interested participants can enrol for these these resources. Look for the ‘Free collections’ menu courses when offered. The five lessons from this and the ‘Accessible Content’ tabs of the portal course are available in PDF and can be shared upon at http://agora-journals.fao.org/ request to [email protected] Even if an institution is not eligible to register for Webinars are regularly organized by the AGORA Research4Life, it can help spread the word to other team and their recordings are published online. institutions (ministries, research institutes, universities) Most AGORA webinars are available in English, that are eligible. French and Spanish. Please visit http://www.fao.org/ agora/training/webinars to see relevant webinars.

Customized online training sessions for specific institutions in your country of 2–3 or 4 hours can be © AdobeStock requested and delivered by the AGORA team.

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Further information

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Publications Training materials Research4Life brochure Available training materials from AGORA: http://www.research4life.org/wp-content/ http://www.fao.org/agora/training/en/ uploads/2014/08/R4L_12p_Brochure_eng.pdf Available training materials from Research4Life: AGORA brochure http://www.research4life.org/training/ http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5730e.pdf

Information in action (Research4Life) http://www.research4life.org/information-action- celebrating-research-advocacy-champions/ Recordings of webinars Literature research on nutrition: browsing AGORA https://youtu.be/ODVC2nmpdRo

Videos Finding AGORA resources by keyword: The Research4Life/AGORA Programme: literature research with Summon Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture https://youtu.be/lTbg4CoSNVo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FJs8VupRxY Effective search strategies for researchers. Discover the Research4Life Partnership Finding resources on AGORA and other platforms https://youtu.be/E_rIXpJx2bU https://youtu.be/mvH6zPl9BLM

How to register? (only for external partners) Research4Life. The library that opens doors https://youtu.be/-toWSWuxFl0 https://youtu.be/d1xdMSnFc_0

How to download a document? https://youtu.be/Jy-AXv-w874

Research4Life and its impact on agronomistsin Burkina Faso

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Quick overview of AGORA and IP-based access is available for most Research4Life FAO offices, with automatic login: • Online access to up to 104 000 peer-reviewed • Go to http://www.fao.org/agora/en/ ; international scientific journals and books; • In the middle horizontal menu bar, click ‘Login • Accessible to FAO staff members; AGORA’; • Five Research4Life programmes offer access to • You should see five boxes: AGORA, Hinari, OARE, scientific literature in the areas of agriculture, GOALI, ARDI – click on AGORA; forestry, fisheries, climate, food security (AGORA), • Explore AGORA journal portal. Hinari, OARE, health (Hinari), environment (OARE), law (GOALI), GOALI, ARDI are also accessible. and innovation and technology (ARDI); • AGORA is the FAO lead sub-programme with a focus on agriculture; • If you work with national partners in an eligible country, their institution may be eligible for free or low-cost access to AGORA and Research4Life; • Full-text articles can be downloaded for printing or reading; • Searching by keyword, subject, author or language; • See http://www.research4life.org/ and http://www.fao.org/agora/en/

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Contact

AGORA Websites @AGORA_R4L Research4Life: http://www.research4life.org Mailing list: https://dgroups.org/fao/agora AGORA: http://www.fao.org/agora

Research4Life Helpdesks @R4LPartnership Research4Life: [email protected] AGORA: [email protected] FAO AIMS @FAOAIMS Mailing list: dgroups.org/fao/agora

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