During the recent “State of Land Data & Information in East Africa: Catalyzing East Africa's Land Data Ecosystem”, 8-10th May in Nairobi, Kenya Research4Life held on the 10th of May a workshop that presented the Research4Life programmes, and focusing on information resources related to legal resources and land. The workshop focused on the following R4L programmes - AGORA (Access to Global Online...

Starting in July, professor Edda Tandi Lwoga from the College of Business Education in Dar es salaam, Tanzania will be Research4Life’s official user representative. The user representative is elected every three years by the Executive Council to represent the worldwide community of users of our partnership that provides free and low-cost access to thousands of academic and professional resources...

In February 2019, the AGORA team delivered an online course called Fundamentals of Information Literacy and Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture, AGORA Online Course in short, for over 1,400 people from 68 countries in 3 languages (English, French and Spanish). This MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) aims to deliver knowledge about the fundamentals of information literacy competencies...

In a changing information landscape, librarians and information professionals often have to act as advocates for what a library is and does. To help them get their message across clearly and convincingly, Research4Life presents its Advocacy Toolkit, a practical learning tool that helps librarians get the support from decision makers, administration or management in order to advance academic...

On 3, 4 and 5 December, the AGORA Team at FAO organized a series of webinars for the 2018 Alumni of the online course “Fundamentals of Information Literacy and Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture - AGORA”. The webinar aimed at sharing experiences on the use of the AGORA platform after the course and help solve any problems or reply to any questions the users might have. During each...