HINARI Access to Research Initiative

Publicity Card design
Prototype of a business card to promote HINARI; done by the members of the Medical Library of the Dornogobi Medical College at Dornogobi Aimag, Mongolia during the National HINARI Training Course for Health Personnel and Medical Librarians / Researchers (6-9 October 2009).
:: HINARI Publicity Card [jpg 31kb]

Training Materials Update
We have added a new training module – 5.0 EndNoteWeb. Accessible from the 'Databases and Article Searching' drop down menu, this reference management tool enables you to save citations in a variety of formats that conform to the specifications for journal publications and dissertations. The training module summarizes the registration process, how to collect, organize and format saved citations and how to export citations from PubMed.
:: Module 5. Managing References
Note: only Band 1 participants have access to this tool.

Other new materials are:
- "Presenting HINARI to Visitors" - a PowerPoint presentation that is a brief overview of HINARI and the other Research4Life programs. - "HINARI Payment: the Basics" - a Word document that will be useful for Band 2 institutions.
:: Presenting HINARI to Visitors [ppt 3.05Mb]
:: HINARI Payment: the Basics [doc 30kb]

Since January 1st, numerous modules have been updated. If you are planning on updating your skills or conducting a training workshop, go to 'Training' and 'Using HINARI' page to access the revised modules
:: Training
:: Using Hinari

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)
- Australian Academic Press
- Informa Healthcare
- Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
- National University of Singapore, Centre for Biomedical Ethics
- Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health

:: Complete list of Partners
:: HINARI 2009 additions - New Publishers and new online journals

Rich Media Comes to HINARI
Conference Archives, Inc. (CAI) has recently partnered with HINARI to deliver event knowledge – rich media presentations, abstracts, and posters from a meeting – to participating institutions through CAI’s institutional platform Ekatius™. The Ekatius™ platform is an educational resource that aggregates and disseminates hard-to-find event knowledge elements to institutions around the world.

The HINARI collection of full-text online journals now offers more than 6200 titles
The HINARI collection of full-text online journals now offers more than 6200 titles. If you would like to suggest other titles that would be good additions to the HINARI collection, please write to us at: hinari@who.int

:: latest additions

Do you need to save your PubMed searches in an easily retrievable place? If so, you can save your 'Collections' in your MY NCBI account. When signed onto MY NCBI, complete a PubMed search and check on the individual citations that you would like to save. In the 'Send To' drop down menu, click on 'Collections'. Go to MY NCBI and click on 'My Saved Data'. For the checked citations, you will be asked to 'Create a new collection' and 'Save' the search. For further instructions on this option, go to Module 4.5 (slide 29) on the training page. This module also details how to register for MY NCBI and other key features including how to receive email messages from MY NCBI - for new articles on subject searches from PubMed.
:: Module 4 . PubMed

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

(...) For many years, we struggled to get access to those journals. As researchers from poor countries no body listened to us.
Now that those programmes are there, I can ensure you that our problem to access science is solved. There is no doubt about the benefit of R4L programmes.
For the first time we have a real programme that can help us. You register, you get a password then you have access to more than 7000 scientific journals. Let me not talk about the cost of those journals and our financial capacity!!!.
Education, scientific research, and transfer of knowledge and technology to developing countries are a very complicated equation. (...)
Ghana, July 2009
:: Read the complete note at The Scholarly Kitchen

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE FIELD

Health initiative assures ARVs match clients
By Benedict Tembo. TINY Tim and Friends (TTF) is a small charity which screens orphans for HIV in vulnerable communities surrounding Lusaka and puts those needing treatment on anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs). TTF specializes in taking care of the most vulnerable orphans and their unique needs including adherence to treatment and skills training. To deliver quality medical care, Dr Meade says TTF uses the World Health Organisation’s Health Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) under which policies and medical procedures have been developed to provide the best HIV treatment for needy orphans. He says HINARI has kept the TTF team abreast with current developments and the TTF now has one of the most advanced and informed breastfeeding and weaning policies in the country. Christine Wamunyima Kanyengo, a librarian at UNZA main campus, says HINARI has bridged the gap for researchers and doctors in accessing current information. “If you are a health practitioner, you need current information,” she says. Read the complete note at:
:: Zambia Daily Mail (Lusaka, Zambia) September 13, 2009

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