HINARI Access to Research in Health Programme

ILIG International Award for making a difference to libraries awarded posthumously to Vimbai Hungwe
HINARI would like to share the bittersweet news that ILIG (the International Library and Information Group) a specialist group of the Chartered Society of Library and Information Professionals in the UK (CILIP) has honored Vimbai Hungwe with a post-humous award as a librarian who has made a difference in libraries and information services outside the UK. Vimbai was an integral part of the HINARI family through his work with ITOCA in Africa. The award states "He was a bright, talented star with integrity, humanity and professionalism: the warmest of human beings and a great communicator." The full ILIG press release is available [PDF attached].
:: ILIG award press release [pdf 26kb]

HIV/AIDS list of journals added
We have added a list of HIV/AIDS journals to the ‘Find journals by subject category’ drop down menu. It contains approximately 100 HIV/AIDS related journals. For access, complete the login process and, from the ‘Full-text journals, databases and other resources’ page, click on the ‘Find journals by subject category’ drop down menu. Then scroll down to the HIV/AIDS listing. If this list is of use to your colleagues, please inform them about it.

Update e-books: The Oxford Textbook of Medicine and 20 CABI e-books now available
HINARI is pleased to announce that users now have access to a growing number of full-text online books via the Reference Sources drop down menu on the Full Text Journals, databases and other resources page. New online books include the Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 5th edition (2010) that has been made available with the support of the Wellcome Trust. The Textbook provides practical guidance on the clinical management and prevention of disease, with in-depth coverage of the traditional specialty areas. The initial page contains an ‘expandable’ table of contents that details the contents of each topic. Also added from CABI are 21 titles in the human health and nutrition sub-set of CAB eBooks. These titles include Applied Mycology, Home Parenteral Nutrition, Integrated Food Safety and Public Health, and Parasitic Flatworms. Users also have access to 15 the American Psychiatric Publishing e-books. The titles include APP Textbooks of General Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, Substance Abuse, and several Practice Guidelines texts. Along with evidence-based practice resources (e.g. Cochrane Library, EBM Guidelines), HINARI also contains clinical-related resources that are accessed via the Reference Sources drop down menu. We invite you to explore the many resources available.

New Partners in 2010
We are pleased to recognize the following new publisher partners who have joined HINARI this year:
- Dansk Psykologisk Forlag
- John Libbey Eurotext
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Oxford University Press Books
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

:: New Publishers and new online journals since March 2010
:: Complete list of Partners

Tip of the Month for Using HINARI: Promoting HINARI in science-related disciplines at universities
Many HINARI users are based in health-related colleges or research institutes that are part of larger universities. We have discovered several cases where the basic science colleges and/or departments at the main university campus were not aware of the availability of HINARI’s numerous ‘science related’ e-journals. In the ‘Find journals by subject category’ drop down menu, there are listings for various basic and social sciences categories including anthropology, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, education (general) and library science, genetics, human anatomy, law, microbiology, neurosciences, nutrition, psychology, science (general) and social science (general). Please inform your colleagues of the availability of these journals and that the University’s user name and password can be used by all faculty, staff and students.

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 7,000 full text online journals in our collection.

Total Registrations
HINARI has more than 4400 institutions registered in 109 countries.
:: Map of Country Breakdown [jpg 250kb]

Languages
You may find full-text online journals in the HINARI database in 30 different languages.

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

:: ITOCA homepage