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HINARI, AGORA and OARE programmes (HINAGOA) were developed to answer the need to improve access to up-to-date scientific scholarly literature in biomedical, health sciences, agriculture, environmental sciences and related fields for scientists, researchers and information managers in low income countries.
The launch of HINARI led by WHO in collaboration with the publishers and Yale University, in January 2002 was prompted by the research and teaching needs of the user community in the developing countries particularly in South Asia, Latin America and Sub-Sahara Africa, many who had not had access to journals for many years and worked with outdated technologies due to lack of access to recent scholarly journals.
AGORA and OARE programmes launched in 2003 and 2006 respectively have been developed along the lines and address similar needs with focus in agriculture and the environment. From the onset, the three initiatives, sought to provide the users, one of the important stakeholders in the programmes, 'a voice' in the on-going and future developments of HINAGOA in order to ensure the programmes address the real needs of the users in Africa.
Goals of the User Forum are:
- To identify and mobilize HINAGOA users in Africa and create a formal forum of users that support the programmes' development.
- To network and influence the formation of user chapters in each of the initially selected ten African countries.
- To document the lessons from the project with the aim of expanding the initiative throughout the eligible countries in Africa and replicating the model through out other regions of the world.
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