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AGORA is the acronym for the Access to Global Online Research on Agriculture program. It was started by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with a number of publishing partners to provide developing countries access to scientific information on food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. There are over 1278 journal titles available to institutions in 107 countries. AGORA is part of Research4Life, the collective name for four programs - HINARI (focusing on health), AGORA (focusing on agriculture), OARE (focusing on environment), and ARDI (focusing on applied science and technology). The AGORA program, its sister programs and their publishing partners have committed to continuing the initiative until at least 2015.〔Davidson, Joy. ("The Long-Term Future of HINARI, AGORA and OARE," ) DCC News, 16 August 2006. Retrieved 9 September 2010.〕 ==History== The AGORA program was launched in October 2003〔("Online scientific information on food and agriculture for poorest countries," ) FAO Newsroom, 14 October 2003. Retrieved 9 September 2010.〕 with FAO and nine founding publishers: Blackwell Publishing, CABI Publishing, Elsevier, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Springer-Verlag, and John Wiley & Sons. Other key partners include Microsoft and Cornell University. Currently a total of 39 publishers participate in AGORA and provide journal content. When launched, AGORA provided access to 400 journals. As of March 2010, the initiative has increased to providing access to over 1278 journals. The development has been in two phases: Phase I, occurring in 2003, allowed access to 69 countries. Phase II increased this by allowing around 30 additional countries access at low cost.〔("The power of information - closing the knowledge gap," ) FAO Newsroom, 27 September 2006. Retrieved 9 September 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「AGORA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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