AGORA, or Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture, is an initiative launched in October 2003 to provide free or low-cost online access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences to public institutions in developing countries. Access to over 400 journals from leading academic publishers will be provided via AGORA. Led by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the goal of AGORA is to increase the quality and effectiveness of agricultural research, education and training in low-income countries, with the long range goal of improving food security.
Founding publishers of AGORA are Blackwell, CABI, Elsevier, Kluwer Academic, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Springer-Verlag, and John Wiley & Sons. Of the 400 plus journals being offered, the following are included: American Journal of Botany, Annals of Botany, Annual Review of Plant Biology, Aquaculture, Aquatic Botany, Aquatic Ecology, Biological Control, Biological Invasions, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Conservation Biology, Ecological Modelling, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Freshwater Biology, Hydrobiologia, International Review of Hydrobiology, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Experimental Botany, Nature, New Phytologist, Oecologia, Plant Pathology, Remote Sensing of Environment, Science of the Total Environment, Weed Research, and Wetlands Ecology and Management.
Access to AGORA will be password controlled and relevant institutions will be required to register with FAO. Approximately 70 eligible countries have been listed, primarily those with an annual GNI per capita per year of US$1000 or less. The Publishing Partners reserve the right to amend the list. Within these countries, AGORA will benefit not-for-profit national academic, research or government institutions in agriculture and related biological, environmental and social sciences. This will include universities and colleges; research institutes; agricultural extension centers, government offices and libraries. A simple online form is all that is required to register for AGORA and only one form per institution is required.
To learn more about AGORA, go to: http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/about.php
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