Research4Life provides access to quality scientific research to deliver knowledge to the world’s low- and middle-income countries. The concept is simple: research in health, agriculture and the environment is better informed when it is based on the most recent, high quality and relevant scientific knowledge.
Both Springer and Nature were founding members of this initiative when the first programme HINARI (research in health) was launched in 2002, providing free and low-cost access to health-related research. Subsequent programmes, AGORA (research in agriculture), OARE (research in the environment), ARDI (research in development and innovation) and GOALI (legal information) provide developing countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.
Springer Nature list of eligible countries
Through Research4Life, Springer Nature offers free online access to all its journals to researchers operating in institutions in eligible countries.
Americas
Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, El Salvador, Guyana, Haiti, Nicaragua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname
Africa
Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Niger, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Asia
Bhutan, Cambodia, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste
Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Ukraine
Middle East
Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syrian Arab Republic, West Bank and Gaza Strip
Oceania / South Atlantic
Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Saint Helena, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
