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Access to leading research in the developing world
Global WeekGothenburg
November 14th 2013
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Why are we here?What can you access?Who gets access?How do you get access?Explore
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Why are we here?
Why am I here?
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Why are we here?
When you think of a library is this what you have in mind?
Awareness is low
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Why are we here?
Why are you here?
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What can you access?Survey done in 2010 – comparing access to scientific journals in Africa and Europe
Of the titles that African users listed as inaccessible to them, 72% were actually readily accessible through their libraries’ online
subscriptions.
On average, 79% of the top-ranked international journals were available online, free at the point of use, at the four case study universities.
Harle, J., 2010. The Association of Commonwealth Universities: Growing Knowledge: Access to Research in East and Southern African Universities, Association of Commonwealth Universities.
https://www.acu.ac.uk/focus-areas/arcadia-growing-knowledge
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What can you access?
Taking the top 20 journals in key areas, as measured by journal impact factor, and comparing these against current journal collections (2009 subscriptions).
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What can you access?
Four UN-supported programmes – HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI
Provides developing countries with free or low cost access to academic content online.
• Online access to over 30,000 peer-reviewed international scientific journals, books, and databases
• Full-text articles which can be downloaded for saving, printing or reading on screen
http://www.research4life.org
Research4Life
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Who gets access?
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Basic Information on OARE and ARDI (Research4Life)
N.B. Research4Life also includes HINARI (medicine) and AGORA (agriculture)
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• Group A: GNI (gross national income) per capita below $1600 are eligible for free access
• Group B: Institutions in countries with GNI per capita between $1601-$5000 pay a fee of $1000 per year
• Some publishers opt out of this option and do not allow access to their journals
• Free/Low cost to >100 countries/territories
Eligibility
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Eligibility (2)
Eligible categories of institutions are: national universities research institutes professional schools (medicine, nursing, pharmacy,
public health, dentistry) teaching hospitals government: ministries and agencies national medical libraries locally based non-governmental agencies
All permanent and visiting faculty, staff members and students are entitled to access and can obtain the institutional User Name and Password.
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• Environment and related sciences
• Over 4800 journals8300 books 110 publishers
• 1800+ institutions registered
• Coordinated by UNEP/Yale University
Data: 2013 03
OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment)
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• Scientific and technical information
• Over 2000 journals5000 books17 publishers
• Eligible institutions are patent offices and academic and research institutions
• A program developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and its publishing partners in the fields of science and technology
ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation)
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How do we get access?
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OARE Features
• Searching by Journal title
• Subject Access Options
• Searching by Language
• Titles by Publisher
• Searching by Book title
• Search Articles
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Searching by Title
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Searching by Title – mind the range
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Searching by Subject
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Article searching – use a database
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Explore
OARE – Environment (use the link ”Access the content”)
ARDI – Innovation
AGORA - Agriculture
HINARI - Medicine
http://www.research4life.org/programmes/