What is Research4Life?
Research4Life is the collective name for five programmes—Hinari, AGORA, OARE, ARDI, and GOALI— that provides low-income and middle-income countries with free or low-cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed publications online.
Hinari, launched in 2002, is the programme that provides access to major journals in the biomedical and related social sciences fields.
Eligibility for access to Research4Life
Institutions in two lists of countries, areas, and territories (Group A and Group B) are eligible to join Research4Life based on seven factors:
Eligible categories of institutions are: national universities, professional schools (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and dentistry), research institutes, teaching hospitals, health-care centres, government offices, national medical libraries, and local non-governmental organisations. All staff members and students are entitled to access the information resources.
Visit the Research4Life website for full details of eligibility
Open access article processing charges
For authors of accepted research articles who choose the “gold” open access option there is an associated article processing charge upon acceptance. Authors whose main funder is located either in group A or B countries of the Health Inter Network Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) or in a country with a low UNDP human development index will be exempt from payment. For authors with no formal funding, the country of origin of the majority of authors' institutions will be taken as the source country. If there is no majority country, the corresponding author's country will be so designated.
The editorial decision to accept is taken well before any request is made as to the ability to pay. Payments are processed by a department unconnected to The Lancet’s editorial department.
