Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), Cornell and Yale University Libraries, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) and a wide array of international scientific publishers. The goal of Research4Life is to reduce the knowledge gap between higher income countries and lower income countries by providing affordable access to critical scientific and professional research.