In March 2022, the Research4Life portal announced the decision of scientific literature publishers to provide Ukrainian scientists with free access to electronic resources (journals, books, databases) within the framework of the Research4Life project until the end of 2022 in order to support the scientific community of Ukraine in wartime conditions.
In January 2023, the status of Ukraine was updated on the official website of Research4Life, indicating that the country was included in group A of countries, organizations, and scientists from which have free access to the platform's resources.
Currently, most of the content of Research4Life is available to Ukrainian scientists (according to information recently published on the portal, the content of the platform reached 200,000 items—journals, books, databases).
A mandatory condition for obtaining access is registration of the institution on the portal, the administrator in providing access to the resource is the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine: https://dntb.gov.ua/research4life
We remind you that in order to study the effectiveness and ease of use of access to the Research4Life platform, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has distributed a survey form that must be filled out by one person from the institution at the level of the vice-rector/deputy director for scientific work or the head of the research department.
You can take the survey by following the link: https://forms.gle/hrVjZFqrk4zX3J9H7.
Also, in case of questions related to the organization of connecting the institution’s access to the ResearchALife platform and the use of access by its employees, the responsible persons of the institution should contact the specialists of the department of scientific and bibliographic analytics and support of scientific databases of DNTB of Ukraine for the necessary consultation:
email address: e-resource@dntb.gov.ua