April 2024

The Research4Life (R4L) Program, provides institutions in low and middle-income countries with online access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content. It aims to improve teaching, research and policymaking in health, agriculture, the environment and other life, physical and social sciences. Since 2002, Research4Life has provided researchers at more than 11,500 institutions in over 125 lower and middle-income countries with free or low-cost online access to up 203,000 leading journals and books in the fields of health, agriculture, environment, applied sciences and legal information.

The Program works in partnership with organizations in the fields of scholarly communications, technology and international development: WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, ILO; Cornell and Yale Universities; the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and more than 200 international publisher partners.

In support of the Research4Life 2030 Strategic plan, aiming to foster an inclusive, diverse and equitable scholarly environment, for the past two years Research4Life has initiated a Country Connectors network project — funded in part by the Elsevier Foundation, Springer Nature and the American Chemical Society. 

Read more about the Program's Strategic Plan here: https://www.research4life.org/about/strategic-plan/

Find out more about the Research4Life Country Connectors 2024 Expansion and Impact here: https://www.research4life.org/news/research4life-country-connectors-in-2024-expansion-and-impact/