HINARI Access to Research Initiative

PubMed Revisions – February 2010
PubMed has redesigned the Limits and Advanced Search page (see the NLM Technical Bulletin at NML Technical Bulletin). The display for Limits now is a separate page with a direct link above the PubMed Search box and the page itself has been simplified. The Advanced Search display also has been simplified with the Limits option has been removed and changes to the Search Builder and Search History options. These changes are noted in the revised Module 4.2.
:: Module 4.2 Limits and Advances Search [ppt 3.08Mb]

New Training Material Available – February 2010
We have developed four new modules – two to highlight some of the resources available from HINARI , one that is an overview of the World Health Organization Web Resources and one that reviews a tool for searching HINARI/PubMed in multiple languages. The Evidence-based Practice Resources for HINARI Users module reviews the concepts of evidence-based practice and the resources available from the Reference Sources drop down menu. The CINAHL Database for HINARI Users module discusses how to search for Nursing and Allied Health material. The WHO Resources module summarizes web resources available via the World Health Organization and Regional Offices. We encourage you to explore these resources and review the training materials. The final new module is titled BabelMeSH for HINARI Users. It reviews the multi-language Search tool for PubMed. The languages include Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. The PubMed Search tool is available in these languages with the results (citations and abstracts) displayed in English. After completing a search in BabelMeSH, you will login to HINARI to locate and access the journal issues with the full-text articles. All these modules are available from the HINARI training page.
:: Training

Influenza Evidence-based Information Portal: Free from EBSCO Publishing
Due to Pandemic H1N1 Influenza and concerns about the 2009/2010 flu season, HINARI partner EBSCO Publishing has made key influenza information from DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™ (NRC) and Patient Education Reference Center™ (PERC) freely available to health care providers worldwide. This Influenza site includes more than 50 evidence-based topics including patient education information in 17 languages.

The information is designed to inform patients and their families and provide information to clinicians to help them with H1N1 diagnosis and H1N1 treatment by making up-to-date diagnosis and treatment information available. The resources being made available will also provide up-to-date information about the H1N1 vaccine.

The editorial teams will monitor the research and update these resources continuously throughout the flu season.
:: Access the Influenza Evidence-based Information Portal

New Partners in 2009
We are pleased to recognize the following new publisher partners who have joined HINARI this year:
American Heart Association
American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
Asian American Psychological Association
Australian Academic Press
BioScientifica
College of Occupational Therapists
De Gruyter
Informa Healthcare
Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
MDPI Publishers
National University of Singapore, Centre for Biomedical Ethics
Royal Society, The
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health
Universidad de La Sabana
:: Complete 2009 additions

Access Problems – Firewalls and Access to Proxy Servers
Periodically, the HINARI staff receives access problems reports. Many times this is an issue that we can help you resolve (incorrect username and password, or a problem at a publisher's site.) We are seeing an increasing number of reports where the problem reported actually originates at your own institution.

Mostly commonly, a problem at your institution occurs when a proxy server is blocked by a newly installed institution firewall on your network. If you know that your institution is upgrading or securing its network, please check with your computer department to make sure the institution’s firewall does not block proxy servers. The computer system must be able to access HINARI’s proxy server in order for you to login to HINARI. Ensure that you are permitted access to the HINARI login URL through your institution’s firewall. Without this permission, you will see error messages from HINARI, and will not be able to login properly and access HINARI’s full-text articles. Contact the HINARI team (hinari@who.int) if your computer department needs more explicit information for the firewall permission.

For more information on Access problems, go to the HINARI training page scroll down to Brief Training and click on the ‘HINARI/Access Problems and Solutions’ PowerPoint presentation. This is a step-by-step review to identify why you do not have access to HINARI and full-text articles.

FEEDBACK FROM USERS

"I have been using HINARI manually for the last couple of years. I was only using the Elsevier science publisher. After the training I felt I was using only less than 1% of the publications which are provided by WHO and other helpful organizations for us living and practicing science in the developing nations. Previously, I was almost wasting my time as I was supposed to read all unrelated publication in order to reach my specific and relevant articles. The training was fortunate for me and other colleagues, who had the chance of attending this fruitful and friendly training on how to use the HINARI, for the health, and other important websites for other fields. As of the completion of the training I started to effectively use HINARI, saving my time and getting my target article almost swiftly."
Ethiopia, September 2009

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE FIELD

Rural doctors, librarians and lecturers access health journals online at Dornogobi, Mongolia
By Gan-Erdene Gantumur. After more than nine hours travelling in an old Russian train, in early October 2009 we arrived at Sainshand, a small sandy town in the middle of the Gobi Desert in the eastern part of Mongolia, 500 km. from the capital, Ulaanbaatar. Read the complete note: New Horizons.
:: The Newsletter of the United Nations in Mongolia, Dec. 2009 (pg. 13) [pdf 41kb]

HINARI Video
The Bach Mai Hospital in Viet Nam uses HINARI.
:: Video

NUMBERS

Journals
We now have more than 6458 full text online journals in our collection.

Total Registrations
HINARI has 4130 institutions registered in 108 countries.
:: Map of Country Breakdown [jpg 972kb]

Languages
You may find full-text online journals in the HINARI database in 22 different languages.

Information Training and Outreach Center for Africa (ITOCA) works with over 300 institutions
:: Full text

:: ITOCA homepage