Kigali Institute of Education, and Research4Life, is running a 3-day Training-of-Trainers workshop on how to access and use over 16000 academic and professional peer-reviewed international scientific journals, e-books, databases, available to developing countries for free or at low cost access.
About 30 participants are attending the workshop.
“Research in health, agriculture and the environment is better informed when it is based on the most recent, high quality and relevant scientific knowledge.
Research4Life programmes offer the most comprehensive source of information to help the research community in Rwanda to better conduct research that is responsive to the needs of people and sustainable development”, said Mohamed Atani, a resource person from the UN Environment Programme.
Research4Life works to enhance the scholarship, teaching, research and policy-making of the many thousands of students, faculty, scientists, and medical specialists, focusing on Health, Agriculture, Environment and other life, physical and social sciences in the developing world.
Considering that research builds on the reported results from others usually through scientific peer-reviewed journals, it is important for researchers to have access to journals.
However, the cost of access to scientific journals has become prohibitive for developing countries such as Rwanda.
“Access to up-to-date, good quality information available in international scientific journals should no longer be a challenge to researchers, lecturers and students in Rwanda.
Research4Life meets their scientific information needs”, said Dr. Justin Chisenga, Knowledge and Information Management Officer from FAO Regional Office for Africa.
Resources available to users in Rwanda, through the Research4Life initiative, include the HINARI Access to Research in Health programme by the World Health Organization (WHO), Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) programme by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) programme by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the Access to Research in Development and Innovation (ARDI) by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, Cornell and Yale Universities and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers.
Working together with technology partner Microsoft, the partners’ main goal is to reduce the scientific knowledge gap between industrialized countries and the developing world for a more sustainable world.
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