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HINARI and Research4Life: Free Access to Research in Health

HINARI Access to Research in Health program provides free or low-cost online access to major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to institutions in developing countries. This presentation outlines the background, eligibility, partners, contents, registration, and training materials for HINARI. It also mentions Research4Life, which includes AGORA, OARE, and ARDI programs.

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HINARI and Research4Life: Free Access to Research in Health

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  1. Title Presenting HINARI and Research4Life to Visitors from Eligible Countries [February 2012]

  2. HINARI Outline Background Eligibility Partners Contents Registration Training materials Optional: Research4Life

  3. HINARI Access to Research in Health programme provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. HINARI was launched in January 2002 for “free access” countries (Group A). In Jan. 2003 it was launched to “low-cost" countries (Group B). Background

  4. http://www.who.int/hinari/

  5. Eligibility (01 2012) • Institutions in countries with GNI (gross national income) per capita below $1600 or HDI (human development index) less than 0.63 are eligible for free access (Group A) • Institutions in countries with GNI per capita between $1601-$5000 or HDI less than 0.67 pay a fee of $1000 per year (Group B) • Some publishers opt out of this option and do not allow access to their journals • For details, see www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/en/

  6. 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.

  7. 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 • Librarians Without Borders/MLA http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/partners.php

  8. Contents

  9. Registration http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/registration.php http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/browse_institutions.php

  10. Registrations (2)

  11. Training Materials http://www.who.int/hinari/training/en/

  12. Training Materials (2)

  13. 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, OARE and ARDI.

  14. http://www.research4life.org

  15. 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 >100 countries/territories 1900 journals / 75 publishers Data: 02 2012 http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/

  16. OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment) Online portal to access environmental information Coordinated by UNEP/Yale University Free/Low cost to >100 countries Over 4150 journals / 75 publishers and scholarly societies Environment and related sciences 1400 registered institutions Data: 02 2012 http://www.oaresciences.org/en/

  17. ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation ) Online portal to access development and innovation research Launched by the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2009 Free/Low cost to >100 countries/territories Over 200 journals / 75 publishers and scholarly societies supports researchers in developing countries in creating and developing new solutions to technical challenges faced on a local and global level Data: 02 2012 http://www.wipo.int/ardi/en/

  18. Thank You The HINARI TeamWorld Health OrganizationAvenue Appia, 201211 Geneva 27SwitzerlandFax: +41 22 791 41 50hinari@who.intwww.who.int/hinari Updated 2012 07

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