Research4Life is a public-private partnership involving the UN, Cornell, Yale, Microsoft, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers. Research4Life provides developing countries with free or low-cost access to academic and professional journal content. There are four parts of the Research4Life program:
- HINARI - Access to Research in Health Program (Eligibility)
- OARE - Online Access to Research in the Environment (Eligibility)
- ARDI - Access to Research for Development and Innovation (Eligibility)
JSTOR Developing Nations Access Initiative - Reduced fees for access to JSTOR's archival journal content as well as their fourprimary source collections.
HighWire Press - HighWire offers free access to developing countries, granting access to content based on user location.
Oxford University Press - Free or reduced-cost access to the Developing Countries journal collection, or subsets (Humanities and Social Sciences; Science, Technical, Medical).
Royal Society of Chemistry - Free access to their journal archive for selected countries.
See also:
INASP - Organization working to improve access to and production of scholarly research around the world.
EIFL - Organization that works with developing countries to improve information technology access via licensing, copyright, open access, and open source advocacy and training.