OARE Module 1:Introduction, Website and

Training Material

Table of Contents • Introduction to OARE:

• background• partners• eligibility & copyright/user agreement• registration

Introduction to OAREProgramme Objectives

• Increase access to high-quality, relevant literature in environmental sciences

• Improve research in environmental sciences and related disciplines

• Improve the quality and effectiveness of education and training

• Increase environment-related policy for the benefit of the population

What is OARE?• OARE =

Online Access to Research in the Environment OARE is an Internet based portal • Provides free or low cost access to major scientific and

peer reviewed journals, e-books, databases, and other scientific materials in environmental sciences .

• Launched in October, 2006.• Several thousand institutions are registered from over

one hundred countries• Has 5700 journals and 15,000 books from more than

150 of the world’s leading academic publishers• Full-text coverage from 1997 onward in most cases

Research4Life Group A & B Countries

Sister Programmes

• Research4Life includes four programmes:• HINARI (Health Access to Research programme)• AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in

Agriculture)• OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment)• ARDI (Access to Research for Development and

Innovation)

• Eligible institutions can register for all four

• For more information , see www.research4life.org/

R4L – Public Private Partnership Principal Publishers

Elsevier Science Springer Wiley-Blackwell Sage Taylor & Francis Lippincott/Williams & Wilkins BioOne Oxford University Press Nature Publishing Other science/technical/

medical publishers

Program Partners World Health Organization - WHO Food and Agriculture Org. – FAO United Nations Environment

Programme – UNEP World Intellectual Property

Organization - WIPO Yale University Library Mann Library/Cornell University International Association of

Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers – STM

Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa

National Library of Medicine Librarians Without Borders®/MLA

http : / / extranet.who. in t/ h inar i/ en / partners .php

Primary Target Audiences

Eligible categories of institutions are:

• national universities

• research institutes

• government: ministries and agencies

• national libraries

• locally based non-governmental agencies

All permanent and visiting faculty, staff members and students are entitled to access and can obtain the institutional User Name and Password.

Eligibility Overview• 115 countries/areas/territories qualify

• Institutions in the public sector or with a not-for-profit status qualify for free access to the full-text articles in OARE’s online collection.

• Institutions must register (just once) to receive a username and password

• Check with your information or communication officer to receive the username and password that gives you full access to OARE and full-text articles

Country Eligibility Overview (01 2012)• Country/areas/territory eligibility is based on GNI

per capita or HDI (human development index)

• Free access is available to institutions in countries with a GNI per capita of $1600 or less or HDI (human development index) less than 0.63 are eligible for free access (Group A)

• Access to those with GNI of $1601-$5000 or HDI less than 0.67 pay a fee of $1500 per year (Group B)

• 71 countries are currently eligible as Group countries and more than 44 countries are Group B

Country Overview continued• For a list of Group A & B countries, go to:

http://www.unep.org/oare/eligibility/en/index.html

• Publishers have the option of excluding groups within each country

• While there are more exclusions in Group B, some publishers choose to exclude institutions from Group A countries

• For specifics on per-country publisher exclusions or other questions, email oare@research4life.org

Institution Eligibility Overview• All OARE users may browse collection and

journal abstracts without log in. You will have access to journals from Open Access publishers and a few commercial publishers.

• To view, download and print the full-text articles, users must be registered and must login first

• Login may only be done by registered institutions

• Students, faculty and staff at eligible, registered institutions can access full-text articles and other OARE resources.

• Visitors to registered institutions can use the resources while at the site.

Technical Requirements• OARE can be accessed from a PC or Mac

computer connected to the Internet. • 256k baud rate is necessary– to access and

download files • The OARE platform can function with Internet

Explorer version 5.0 or higher, Mozilla Firefox version 10.0 or higher or Google Chrome .

• Also needed is a recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader - to view full-text articles in PDF format.

OARE: User Agreement

• All registered institutions will sign a User Agreement covering: • Use of the OARE password• Copyright and Fair Use

• Agreement shall be available in your institution

Use of the OARE Password• Do Please Share OARE username and

password with colleagues, students, faculties in your institution

• Do not Share with those from outside the institution

• Do not Use outside the country

Copyright and Fair Use

• Same as typical copyright and fair use principles: It is OK, for example, to:

• Download or print up to 15% of a journal issue or book

• Use material for educational purposes (course packs or reserves)

• Make copies for institution members or students

• Always credit sources

• Be cautious but sensible

Abuse of Publisher Privileges

• It is NOT OK to:• Charge for documents, except for cost

recovery for teaching materials • Post content to websites or blogs that are

publically accessible• Change content• Download all articles from a single issue

• Violations result in the INSTITUTION or ENTIRE country denied access until the problem is resolved.

Exercises

Complete exercise #1 in the accompanying Exercises (Word) document

Step 1

Start your web browser(Internet Explorer or Firefox).

Step 2

Type:

http://www.unep.org/oare/

in the “Address” box

Step 3

Press “Enter” on the keyboard or GO

How to Register for OARE

To access the step-by-step guide to registration, click on the Register for OARE link.

This is the step-by-step guide to completing the Research4Life online registration process. There is a link to the online registration form.

The Step by Step Guide contains links to Registered Universities and Professional Schools for HINARI, AGORA and OARE.

Displayed is the access page to the Registered Universities and Professional Schools by Countries, Areas and Territories PDF documents. To download the PDF file, click on OARE.

Displayed is the list of OARE Registered Universities and Professional Schools for Ethiopia.

The following slides are a summary of the

key points of the registration process

located at:

http://registration.research4life.org/register/default.aspx

This is the initial registration page.An institution can register for all fourprogrammes BUT you must register for each programme separately

The form must be completed and submitted for each program

To complete the registration,make sure you enter all theinformation in the required fields

Enter the six character validation code that is listed at the bottom.Submit registration.

Key Hints•  Telephone and Fax fields are numeric. No blank

spaces, nor symbols should be used.

• Comments and Activities fields have a maximum number of characters. If you want to provide any explanation, please send by email to the HINARI HelpDesk hinari@who.int  Include in the email your country and full institution name - in order to identify the application.

• If possible, include an ‘institutional’ email address (e.g. smith@kemri.org or smitha@who.int not alan.smith@gmail.com )

• If you have registered for one previously and want to register for the other two, add a note in the comments field with your institution and username. This will speed up the registration process for a 2nd or 3rd program.

• Lastly, the whole validation and processing takes from four to six weeks. Currently (February 2014) we continue to have a large backlog caused by the ‘Already Registered’ applications.

Help

• Trouble registering or logging on? Technical issues? Questions about policy or use? Training inquiries?

• For support in Africa, contact ITOCA

itoca@itoca.org

• For support elsewhere, email oare@research4life.org

updated May 2015

Exercises

Complete Module 1 exercises #1 in the accompanying OARE exercises document

Updated: July 2015