The Research4Life partners have announced that they have agreed to extend their partnership through 2020. Research4Life currently provides over 6,000 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed online content from the world's leading scientific, technical and medical publishers.
The renewed commitment will ensure that the 18,000 peer reviewed scientific journals, books and databases now available through the public-private Research4life partnership will continue to reach research communities in low- and middle-income countries.
Nearly 200 scientific, technical and medical publishers worldwide participate in Research4Life. Since the programme's launch in 2001, no publisher has withdrawn support from the partnership. A 2010 survey which formed part of a Research4life user experience review, revealed that more respondents (24 percent) cite HINARI as a source for life-science and medical research than any other source, while more respondents (32 percent) cite HINARI as the source they use most frequently. For agricultural research, AGORA similarly tops the list of resources used, with equivalent figures of 27 percent and 54 percent respectively.
