Access to research in the developing world : Global week In Gothenburg 2013

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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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Who gets access?EIFL partner countries (orange)

http://www.eifl.net/

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Who gets access?INASP Partner countries

http://inasp.info/

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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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Thank you!

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Explore

OARE – Environment (use the link ”Access the content”)

ARDI – Innovation

AGORA - Agriculture

HINARI - Medicine

http://www.research4life.org/programmes/