Developing Countries Access to Research

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Title
Presenting HINARI to Visitors from Eligible
Countries June 2009
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HINARI Outline

• Background
• Eligibility
• Partners
• Contents
• Registration
• Capacity building Training support
• Optional Research4Life

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Background

• The Health Access to Research Programme (HINARI)
  provides free or very low cost online access to
  the major journals, databases and other resources
  on biomedical and related social sciences to
  local, not-for-profit institutions in developing
  countries.
• HINARI was launched in January 2002 for free
  access countries (Band 1).
• In Jan. 2003 it was launched to low-cost access"
  countries (Band 2).

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http//www.who.int/hinari/
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Eligibility

• Country eligibility is based on gross national
  income (GNI) per capita (World Bank figures
  2006).
• Band 1 countries with GNI per capita below 1250
  eligible for free access.
• Band 2 countries with GNI per capita between
  1250 - 3500 pay a fee of 1000 per year /
  institution.
• Lists of eligible countries, areas and
  territories
• http//www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/en/

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Eligibility (2)

• Eligible categories of institutions are
• national universities
• research institutes
• professional schools (medicine, nursing,
  pharmacy, public health, dentistry)
• teaching hospitals
• government ministries and agencies
• national medical libraries
• locally based non-governmental agencies
• All permanent and visiting faculty, staff
  members and students are entitled to access and
  can obtain the institutional User Name and
  Password.

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Partners

• Major Publishers
• Elsevier Science
• Springer
• Wiley-Blackwell
• Sage
• Taylor Francis
• Lippincott/Williams Wilkins
• BioOne
• Oxford University Press
• Nature Publishing
• Other science/technical/ medical publishers

• Program Partners
• World Health Organization WHO
• Yale University Library
• International Association of Scientific,
  Technical and Medical Publishers STM
• Microsoft
• Food and Agriculture Org. FAO
• United Nations Environment Programme UNEP
• Information Training and Outreach Centre for
  Africa
• National Library of Medicine
• Mann Library/Cornell University

http//extranet.who.int/hinari/en/partners.php
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Contents
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Registration
http//extranet.who.int/hinari/en/registration.php
http//extranet.who.int/hinari/en/browse_instituti
ons.php
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Registrations (2)
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Training Materials
http//www.who.int/hinari/training/en/
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Training Materials (2)
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Additional Slides

• You may consider to add the following slides on
  Research4Life to your presentation.
• Research4Life is the collective name for HINARI
  and its Sister Programmes AGORA and OARE.

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http//www.research4life.org
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AGORA(Access to Global Online Research in
Agriculture)

• Online portal to access information on
  Agriculture and related sciences
• Coordinated by FAO/Cornell University, USA
• Free/Low cost to 108 countries
• 1278 journals / 40 publishers
• 1042 registered institutions
• Data 06 2009

http//www.aginternetwork.org/en/
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http//www.aginternetwork.org/en/
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OARE (Online Access to Research in the
Environment)

• Online portal to access environmental information
• Coordinated by UNEP/Yale University
• Free/Low cost to 108 countries
• Over 2990 journals / 340 publishers and scholarly
  societies
• Environment and related sciences
• 900 registered institutions
• Data 06 2009

http//www.oaresciences.org/en/
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http//www.oaresciences.org/en/
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Thank You
The HINARI TeamWorld Health OrganizationAvenue
Appia, 201211 Geneva 27SwitzerlandFax 41 22
791 41 50hinari_at_who.intwww.who.int/hinari