Digital Science joins Research4Life initiative

Digital Science is to collaborate with Research4Life in a deal that will give all Research4Life participants access to its Dimensions Plus product. Dimensions allows participants to explore the research landscape and the connections between publications, grants, clinical trials, patents and policy documents.

Research4Life is a public-private partnership that aims to reduce the knowledge gap between industrialised and developing countries by providing free or very low-cost access to scientific and professional information to institutions in more than 120 countries. 

Christian Herzog, CEO at Dimensions, said: 'We're really pleased to support Research4Life's mission to reduce the knowledge gap between industrialised and developing countries, and support research in countries where access to information is sometimes hard to get. Their wealth of programmes and diversity of participants across the world is inspiring and something we're very happy to actively support.'

Dimensions is a research insights platform designed to break down barriers to access and discovery. It brings together motor than 100 million publications, $1.3tn of grants, 455,000 clinical trials, 38 million patents, 420,000 policy documents, and associated metrics.

Andrea Powell, outreach director and publisher coordinator at Research4Life STM, said: 'It's very exciting that Dimensions is now available to all registered Research4Life users, because it reflects the interconnectedness of the modern research environment and the wide range of information that researchers need to be effective.  Dimensions complements the rest of the content accessible via Research4Life very well and I hope it will contribute to our efforts to level the playing field for researchers in the Global South. We are really delighted to have Digital Science on board.'

More than 9,000 institutions have access to the five programmes of Research4Life – Hinari, AGORA, OARE, ARDI and GOALI. Users include researchers, academics, students, clinicians, health workers, extension agents, economists, government departments and policymakers. Up to 175 publishers are now participating in Research4Life, providing access to up to 22,500 journals, 81,000 books, and 120 other information resources.