TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library) and AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) are digital collections of scientific agricultural literature for the developing world. Through both, the agricultural research cycle in the developing world functions more effectively, including in areas where access to the internet is limited, slow, or unreliable, thanks to TEEAL's offline access. This paper discusses the programs' training, outreach, and usage and barriers to it, and the international partnerships that make them possible. Also profiled is the new AgriKnowledge database, which provides access to key unpublished agricultural content, including reports from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's programs and projects. *The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.teeal and agora/chimwaza et al. 397 article in question or can obtain it through the library's networks in fewer than three or four days. This is not the case for a researcher in the developing world, where libraries have been underfunded for decades and unable to pay for print journal subscriptions. Developing-world agricultural scientists without access to the research literature are severely handicapped in their attempts to conduct research in new agricultural research areas. Sometimes they work diligently for years on a research problem, only to realize that the work had already been accomplished. Several videos on the Research4Life website profile agricultural researchers who have had this experience (Research4Life, 2016a).That is where TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library) and AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) come in. 1 TEEAL (Cornell University, 2010), launched in 1999, and AGORA (FAO, 2016b), launched in 2003, offer free or low-cost access to developing world institutions in 116 eligible countries to hundreds of leading scholarly journals in agriculture and related fields. AGORA is a program within the Research4Life initiative, a public-private partnership among various UN agencies, universities, and international scientific publishers that provides online access to nearly 70,000 peer-reviewed scientific journals, books, and databases in the fields of health (HINARI), agriculture (AGORA), environmental studies (OARE), and development and innovation (ARDI).Both TEEAL and AGORA grew out of the development of electronic journals and CD-ROM technology during the 1980s, which suddenly allowed additional ways to obtain journal content at a very low marginal cost. This in turn allowed librarians and publishers to work together in public-private partnerships to meet the challenge of access for the developing world head on, and the agricultural-journal access programs we have today, TEEAL and AGORA/Research4Life, were born. 2 In the case of TEEAL, Cornell University is the lead organization working directly with publishers; for AGORA, the United Nations ...