HINARI, AGORA, OARI, TEEAL
What is TEEAL?
TEEAL, or The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library, is a full-text and searchable database of articles from more than 325 high-quality research journals in agriculture and the related sciences. Beginning with the 2012 Update of the collection, which accounts for the redesign of both the TEEAL hardware and software, the collection arrives on a "mini computer" that you can run on one computer workstation or make available to multiple computers via your Local Area Network (LAN) or intranet. For many years, TEEAL has been improving access at institutions with limited Internet time and/or financial resources. It is a searchable, offline, digital library which contains mainly agriculturally focused reference journals updated annually and delivered by the TEEAL Project Office at Cornell University’s Mann Library.
TEEAL is available for purchase at a low cost, and is solely for education and research in public and non-profit institutions in income-eligible countries. Should you have questions regarding the eligibility of your institution, please contact the TEEAL Project Office by completing our online contact form. The link can be found at the bottom of this page.
When you purchase TEEAL for the first time, you receive applicable hardware containing journal content from 1993 through the currently available update year. TEEAL is updated each year. Individual updates are shipped to current/paid subscribers every year.
Beginning with the release of the 2012 Update of the collection, TEEAL is now delivered to institutions on a small mini computer. Shipment also includes a short Ethernet cable and applicable power cables for the mini computer itself.
We also include a setup guide for the machine, and we have excellent technical support staff that can assist if any questions arise during the installation process.
TEEAL is also newly compatible with all operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS platforms. Once TEEAL is installed, users can search for and retrieve full-text articles. You can run TEEAL on a single computer, or host the collection on a server and share it over a local network (see illustration above).
Noted below are the System requirements for running the new TEEAL. As has always been the case though, it must be reiterated that it is strictly forbidden to provide access to TEEAL over the Internet.
AGORA is the acronym for the Access to Global Online Research on Agriculture program. It was started by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with a number of publishing partners to provide developing countries access to scientific information on food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences.
There are over 1278 journal titles available to institutions in 107 countries. AGORA is part of Research4Life, the collective name for four programs - HINARI (focusing on health), AGORA (focusing on agriculture), OARE (focusing on environment), and ARDI (focusing on applied science and technology).
The AGORA program, its sister programs and their publishing partners have committed to continuing the initiative until at least 2015.[1]
History[edit]
The AGORA program was launched in October 2003[2] with FAO and nine founding publishers: Blackwell Publishing, CABI Publishing, Elsevier, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Springer-Verlag, and John Wiley & Sons. Other key partners include Microsoft and Cornell University. Currently a total of 39 publishers participate in AGORA and provide journal content.
When launched, AGORA provided access to 400 journals. As of March 2010, the initiative has increased to providing access to over 1278 journals.
The development has been in two phases: Phase I, occurring in 2003, allowed access to 69 countries. Phase II increased this by allowing around 30 additional countries access at low cost.[3]
Currently, AGORA provides access to those countries as agreed by the publishers, based on certain criteria. The eligibility for each country is based on GNI per capita as provided by World Bank figures. Therefore, institutions in countries with GNI per capita below US$1250 (Band 1) are eligible for free access. Institutions in countries with GNI per capita between US$1251 and US$3500 (Band 2) pay a fee of US$1000 per year per institution.
The eligible countries are therefore determined by the publishers themselves.
Restrictions[edit]
Due to publishers' market interests and business plans, not all developing countries are eligible, as in some of these countries, the publishers have significant levels of existing subscriptions. Some of these countries include South Africa, India and China.[4]
Critics[who?] find problems with the use of GNI as a criterion, however. China, for example, is a large developing country facing an information divide, which is not reflected by the GNI. In large cities and coastal areas of China, per capita GNI can be four times that of the poor localities, yet poor 'local' researchers cannot get low-price access because China as a whole surpasses the baseline criterion.[5]
Related initiatives[edit]
· HINARI (Access to Research Initiative) launched in 2002 and is administered by World Health Organization (WHO).
· OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment) launched in October 2006 and is coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
· ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation) launched in 2010 and administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
· The TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library) Project is administered through Mann Library’s Collection and Services Department.
· ITOCA (Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa), in Pretoria, South Africa, handles awareness and training missions across the African continent.
HINARI Access to Research in Health Programme was set up by the World Health Organization and major publishers to enable developing countries to access collections of biomedical and health literature. There are up to 13,000 e-journals and up to 29,000 online books available to health institutions in more than 100 countries. HINARI is part of Research4Life, the collective name for four programs - HINARI (focusing on health), AGORA (focusing on agriculture), OARE (focusing on environment), and ARDI (focusing on applied science and technology).[1] Together, Research4Life provides developing countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.[1]
The HINARI program, and the other programs, were reviewed for the second time in 2010 and the publishers involved have committed to continuing with it until at least 2020.
In response to a call by the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and to a statement issued by Gro Harlem Brundtland the then Director General World Health Organization, HINARI was launched in July 2001 with a statement of intent from six major publishers: Blackwell Publishing, Elsevier, the Harcourt, Wolters Kluwer, Springer Science+Business Media, and John Wiley & Sons.[2] The HINARI name began as an acronym of Health Inter-Network Access to Research Initiative.[3] The use of the full name was later abandoned. The program opened for use in January 2002 with around 1,500 journals from the initial six publishers.[4] As of 2015 there are almost 200 publisher partners providing their online publications through HINARI.[5] 3,750 journal titles were accessible via HINARI in 2007.[3]
Eligible categories of institutions are: national universities, professional schools (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, dentistry), research institutes, teaching hospitals and healthcare centers, government offices, national medical libraries and local non-governmental organizations.[6]
The country lists are based on four factors: Total GNI (World Bank figures), GNI per capita (World Bank figures), United Nations Least Developed Country (LDCs) List and Human Development Index (HDI).[7] In 2007 users and members of eligible institutions in 113 countries had access.[3] Some large, emerging countries including India and China are excluded by the program because their total GNI exceeds US$1 trillion.[7][4][3]
· TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library)
· AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture)
· OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment)
· ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation)
References[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Our commitment to universal access to medical research § About Research4Life". The Lancet. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
2. Jump up ^ "Publishers' Statement of Intent". HINARI. London: World Health Organization. 2001-07-09. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Sarin, R (2007). "Denying open access to published health-care research: WHO has the password?". Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics 3 (3): 133–4. doi:10.4103/0973-1482.37403. PMID 18079573.
4. ^ Jump up to: a b Harris, Siân (June–July 2007). "Training increases HINARI and AGORA benefits". Digital Divide. Research Information (Europa Science). Retrieved 2015-04-05.
7. ^ Jump up to: a b "Criteria by which countries, areas, or territories are categorized". HINARI. World Health Organization. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) is led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in partnership with major publishers. The programme enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world’s largest collections of environmental science research.
OARE enhances environmental research by connecting academics, researchers and policy makers in low and middle income countries with online research and scholarly information. Up to 5710 peer reviewed journals and 1119 online books, and other information resources are available to environmental institutions in more than 100 countries benefitting many thousands of environment researchers, practitioners, policy makers, educators, and students.
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