Research4Life Partners Commit to Free and Low Cost Access and Training Through 2025 - Seite 2

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), says, "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."

About Research4Life 

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.

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