title presenting hinari and research4life to visitors from eligible countries [dec. 2010]
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HINARI Outline Background Eligibility Partners Contents Registration Training materials Optional: Research4Life
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 (Band 1).
In Jan. 2003 it was launched to “low-cost" countries (Band 2).
Background
Eligibility (01 2012)• Institutions in countries included in the United
Nations Least Developed Country (LDCs) List; an HDI (human development index) less than 0.63; or GNI (gross national income) per capita at or below $1600 may be eligible for free access (Band 1/Group A)
• Institutions in countries with either a GNI per capita less than $5000 or HDI at or below 0.67 may be eligible to pay a fee of $1000 per year (Band 2/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/
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.
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
http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/partners.php
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
Registrationhttp://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/registration.php
http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/browse_institutions.php
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.
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 105 countries 2500 journals / 75 publishers >1800 registered institutions Data: 07 2011http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/
OARE (Online Access to Research in the
Environment)
Online portal to access environmental informationCoordinated by UNEP/Yale UniversityFree/Low cost to 105 countriesOver 3900 journals / 75 publishers and scholarly
societiesEnvironment and related sciences1400 registered institutionsData: 07 2011
http://www.oaresciences.org/en/
Thank You
The HINARI TeamWorld Health OrganizationAvenue Appia, 201211 Geneva 27SwitzerlandFax: +41 22 791 41 [email protected]/hinari
Updated 2011 09