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'Geneva, March 4, 2025 – What began as a bold response to a call from the United Nations has grown into one of the most enduring public-private partnerships for research equity. For 25 years, Research4Life has expanded access to trusted academic and professional resources – transforming who gets to participate in global research.
'Launched in 2001 as Hinari with the World Health Organization and six founding publishers, Research4Life emerged from a simple but powerful idea: that researchers, clinicians, educators and policymakers everywhere should be able to access the research and resources they need to improve lives. Today, that idea has become a global movement. Research4Life works with more than 185 publisher partners to provide access to over 250,000 journals, books and databases. The partnership serves more than 12,000 institutions across 120 countries and helps to create more equitable access to trusted scholarly resources for researchers in low- and middle-income countries...
'As Research4Life celebrates this milestone, it is also looking toward the next 25 years: a future where researchers everywhere can collaborate as equals, where local knowledge connects globally, and where equitable access to information fuels innovation, resilience and social progress...'
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org