HINARI Overview (For Presentations at Registered Institutions)
Background This module has been developed for presentation at HINARI registered institutions. It is a tool to promote the various resources (e-journals, reference sources, databases, etc.) to potential users. Approximately 40 minutes in length, it can be adapted/modified for shorter presentations. This module is an overview of HINARI and, for your specific audience, can be adapted or shortened.
Table of Contents Benefits/Audiences Partners HINARI E-Journal Access Features Other HINARI Resources Reference Sources Other Free Collections HINARI/PubMed Features Training Material Do’s and Don’t’s Research4Life Programs Note that this is an introductory overview of HINARI and that many of the specifics of the program are covered in depth in the more detailed training modules. There are a total of over 25 modules including 5 modules for PubMed plus other tools such as HINARI-the Basics and HINARI Access Problems and Solutions.
HINARI The HINARI Access to Research Programme is coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) HINARI is a public-private partnership between the WHO, publishers and other health care content owners To provide biomedical and health care research and guideline information to non-profit academic and research institutions, governmental and policy making departments in low income countries. Allows access to full-text articles in more than 7000 e-journals and other health resources. HINARI was launched in 2002 with 1500 journals from six major scientific/technical and medical publishers. As of 2010, the program has over 7000 journals from more than 1500 publishers. The journals and other resources are available in 108 countries, areas and territories. The participating publishers have committed to 2015 when the program will be reviewed in conjunction with the Millennium Development Goals. For more information, go to: http://www.who.int/hinari/about/en/
Objectives of HINARI To connect developing world researchers with the international scientific community To reduce the ‘publishing gap’ and improve the quality of locally produced articles and journals Ultimately – to improve health in relation to Millennium Development Goals of 2015
Primary Target Audiences 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. Recently, eligibility for not-for-profit agencies has been broadened. Those primarily funded by or affiliated with international agencies or non-governmental organizations are not eligible. Each institution will have one User Name and Password that is to be distributed to all eligible individuals from that organization. Eligible individuals will be explained in the ‘Do’s and Don’ts’ slides.
Partners Principal Publishers Program Partners 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 Food and Agriculture Org. – FAO United Nations Environment Programme – UNEP Yale University Library Mann Library/Cornell University International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers – STM Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa National Library of Medicine Microsoft Librarians Without Borders®/MLA This slide outlines HINARI’s extensive ‘public-private’ collaboration.
HINARI Website ` This is the initial page of the HINARI website. Note in the left-hand column, that there are links to the Full-text journals, database and other resources, Eligibility, Register, FAQs and Training pages. To access the HINARI website, enter the URL http://www.who.int/hinari/ We will Login to look at the options for accessing full-text journal articles and other resources. In the next set of slides, we will give an ‘overview’ of the key HINARI features: website interface, journals, partner publisher’s resources and other full text resources. Understanding the HINARI website is critical for optimally using the available resources.
Logging into HINARI 2 Each institution has one HINARI User Name and Password. By properly signing in, you will have access to the full text articles and other resources of HINARI.
Once logged-in, you will be taken into the Full text journals, databases, and other resources sub-page of the website. Note the ‘You are logged’ in message that confirms access to the HINARI resources. The ‘You are logged in’ message was added in October 2008. This invaluable reminder will appear whenever you are on this page. Without this message, the publishers will not recognize you as a HINARI participant and will block the access to the full-text articles and other resources.
Accessing journals by title 1 We briefly will review the options for access Journals. You can use the Find journals by title alphabetical list. Note there also is a View complete list of journals option.
In this example, we have displayed the ‘L’ journal list In this example, we have displayed the ‘L’ journal list. We now will click on the title for The Lancet. The green box notes access to the contents of the journal for you while the ! notes that your institution is denied access (predominantly Band 2 although some Band 1). Note that the ‘years of volumes’ available are listed after the journal title. In this example, we have located the link to ‘Lancet’. To select the journal, highlight the title in the alphabetical list by clicking on it and another window will open at the publisher’s website.
Accessing journals by title 4 Another windowwill open at the journal publisher’s website usually with access to the current issue. In this additional window, you will see the link to the individual journal (Lancet). You are proceeding from the HINARI gateway into the particular publisher’s website and portal of journals. You will then be able to locate the article you are interested in and download or print it.
Accessing journals by via PubMed Another option to find articles through HINARI/PubMed. PubMed is an database with citations and annotations to over 19,000,000 articles. Using this option will be discussed later in this presentation. We now have returned to the ‘Full-text journals, database and other resources’ page of HINARI. As noted, the ‘Search HINARI journal articles through PubMed (Medline)’ option will be reviewed in future slides.
Accessing journals by subject 1 Another option to find journals is by Subject. From the drop down menu, we will select Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases. Journals also can be found in a broad subject category by moving down the page to the ‘Find journals by subject category’ section. Click on the hypertext link to select journals by broad subject category. This can be done by using the drop down menu. Other options that will not be discussed include the ‘Select A Language’ and ‘Select A Publisher’ options that lists all the Partner Publishers and their respective publications. In the right column, there is a ‘Partner publisher services’ drop down menu but this only includes some of the major publishers.
Accessing journals by subject 4 An alphabetical list of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases journals is now displayed with links to the journals’ websites. After the title of the journal, the available volumes/issues are listed. You now can select the specific journal you would like to access. Once you select a journal, you will be transferring from the HINARI gateway to the participating publisher’s website/portal. If you have completed the LOGIN properly, you will have access to the full-text articles.
Publishers’ Websites We can also access full text journal articles from Partner publishers’ services websites by selecting from the dropdown menu. You also have the Find journals by publisher listing. Publisher’s websites offer access to full-text journals and specialist services. You can access full-text resources from Partner publisher services section on the HINARI Full-text journals, databases and other resources page. Click on the drop down menu next to the “SELECT PUBLISHER” text box and a list of the partner publishers is displayed. To go to the publisher’s website, highlight the name and click on it.
HINARI – Other Resources We briefly will introduce some of the other resources available from the HINARI program. Via one of the three drop down menus, there are a number of Databases and (Bibliographic) Indexes that can be accessed. Note: Many of these resources are underutilized by HINARI users as most individuals concentrate on obtaining full-text journal articles. There are a number of other full text resources in addition to publishers journal collections, these can be accessed from the list on the right-hand side of the website. If you go to the ‘Reference sources’ section on the on the ‘Full-text journals, databases and other resources’ page, you will see a number of resources such as books, dictionaries and encyclopedias. In this example, we have clicked on the ‘Databases and Indexes’ and have access to a series of useful resources. Note the number of regional bibliographic databases.
We have opened the initial page of Scopus (Elsevier), a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track and analyze research. Being from a HINARI registered institution, and having logged into HINARI, you will be able to use these resources from various commercial publishers.
CINAHL (EBSCO) is another resource from the Databases and (Bibliographic) Indexes menu. It provides indexing for 2,960 journals and can be searched for information on nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/ complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Via HINARI, many of these journals can be accessed.
A third resource from the Databases and (Bibliographic) Indexes menu is Scirus. It is a searchable database to over 370 million scientific items including journal content, scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information. It also contains numerous SciTopics pages on medicine and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology.
Via the second drop down menu, we will highlight a number of Reference Sources that can be accessed from HINARI. This drop down menu contains numerous psychiatry/psychology related full-text books or resources plus numerous sites with evidence-based medicine and clinical ‘best practices’ information.
Cochrane Library contains high quality, independent evidence for health care decision making. It includes numerous access options including via keyword, MeSH terms and category listings. Cochrane Library is one of 5 sources of information on evidence-based practice in HINARI.
The Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 5th edition is one of the foremost international textbooks of internal medicine. It 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 included in the Reference Sources listing are numerous psychiatry/psychology related full-text resources. We have opened the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines tool that is searchable by keyword and broad subject categories.
Another useful Reference Sources resource is BMJ Learning Another useful Reference Sources resource is BMJ Learning. This site contains over 500 peer reviewed evidence based learning modules. You are able to browse the modules via a subject based drop down menu.
The final Reference Sources resource we will look at is the EndNoteWeb (Thomson Scientific). It is a reference management software package used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. This is an invaluable tool for researchers and post-graduate students.
We now will sample several of the resources from the Other Free Collections drop down menu.
HighWire Press 3 This is the HighWire Press initial page. From this site, we can locate full-text articles and/or journal titles directly without accessing HINARI as this resource is based on IP (computer) addresses of eligible countries. The Free Access to Developing Economies link is located on the initial page. Also of interest is the Free full-text content link.
This is the initial page of the Free Access to Developing Economies list of HighWire Press. As noted, the access is based on the computer's IP Address and you can go directly to the site using the url.
The Other Free Collection menu includes FreeBooks4Doctors, a website that has links to 365 full-text books on the Internet. This gateway is searchable by keyword, topic or language.
Our final Other Free Collection resource to view is PubMed Central, a free digital archive of life sciences journals created by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. This resource can be searched via a keyword search engine or journal title. For all of these drop down menu, we only have sampled a few of the available resources. As you become familiar with the basics of HINARI and HINARI/PubMed, you should explore the various resources in all these menus.
PubMed Overview From the main HINARI webpage, we can access PubMed by clicking on Search HINARI journal articles through PubMed (Medline). This is an invaluable tool for identifying full-text articles and linking directly to the document. Note: If you do not properly sign on, you will not have access to full text articles from the HINARI/PubMed database. As previously noted, we now will discuss the HINARI/PubMed option.
We now will have opened HINARI/PubMed and will enter a search in the PubMed Search box. In this example, we will enter a search for malaria infections AND Africa into the Search or query box. To execute the query, click on the Search button. PubMed is a database with over 19 million citations. Most of these citations contain abstracts. For HINARI and Free Full Text journals, there is a way to go directly from PubMed’s citations to the full-text articles.
Results of the search are displayed in the main body of the page. Note the two additional filters for Free Full Text and HINARI articles. Of the 3401 articles, 1377 are available via the HINARI filter and 992 with Free full text filter ( there are some overlaps).
PubMed also contains an additional hypertext link for Free full text articles. By clicking on this link, you will be re- directed to the Abstract display and be able to access the full text. Note: Access to HINARI articles also is from the Abstract display or the HINARI Filter.
You have numerous Display Settings options You have numerous Display Settings options. From the Display Settings drop down menu, we have clicked on the Abstract Format, 20 Items per Page and Recently Added Sort by options.
We have displayed the search results using the Abstract display. By clicking on the HINARI or the Free article icons, we can access the full-text article. Again, remember that you must be signed onto HINARI and accessed HINARI/PubMed to be able to successfully use the Icons in the Abstract display.
In order to save the citations and abstracts, we would open the Send To drop down menu. From this menu, we are able to select the File, Collections, Order, Clipboard and E-mail options.
To use these options, you must place check marks in the boxes to the left of the citations that you wish to send to File, Collections, Order, Clipboard and E-mail options. If you do not place check marks in the boxes, the entire search results will be sent to the option you choose. Note how PubMed lists the # of citations you have checked.
In this example, we will email the search results In this example, we will email the search results. From the Send To drop down menu, we have selected the E-mail with the Summary and Recently added options. The search results will be sent to the e-mail address you entered as the recipient. In this overview, we only have discussed the E-mail ‘Send to’ option. All the other options function in a similar way. For more information on the HINARI/PubMed website, go to Module 4.1 PubMed Website Interface (http://www.who.int/hinari/training/modulesfour/en/index.html)
Limits From the initial (HINARI) PubMed page, we will also can open the Limits search option. This is another invaluable tool to find the specific articles that are of interest to you. 42
Limits allows you to search more effectively in the PubMed database Limits allows you to search more effectively in the PubMed database. Searches can be limited by restricting terms to fields or setting specific date or record tagging parameters. We will highlight several Limits options. In the subsequent slides, we will highlight several of these Limits options that are invaluable for completing precise searches in PubMed. A more extensive review of Limits is in Module 4.2 on the HINARI training page. See http://www.who.int/hinari/training/modulesfour/en/index.html for access to this module.
In the Published in the Last drop down menu, there are numerous options ranging from Any date (the default) to 10 years and Specify date range. We will click on the 1 year option and then the Search button – for the HIV AND Pregnancy search.
By using the 1 year Limits option, we have a search with 488 citations. The Limits Activated are highlighted in a yellow box with Change and Remove (hypertext) options. We will click on the Change link and return to Limits.
Using the HIV AND pregnancy search, we will add the English languages Limit, we will check the boxes of two Ages Limits: Adolescent 13-18 years and Young Adult 19-24 years. Finally, we will click on the Search button. Note that there are many other useful Limits that can be added.
By using the English languages Limit option and the Adolescent and Young Adult Ages Limits, we have a search with 2259 citations. This only is a sampling of the numerous ‘Limits’ choices. When using this option, you will find the various options that you prefer.
MY NCBI The ‘My NCBI’ feature allows you to set-up filter tabs in your display area, save searches, and set-up automatic email alerts to new articles added to PubMed. To register, click on the Register link in the ‘ My NCBI’ box on the top-right side of the webpage. A registration form will then open in a new window. Note: You will need to register only once and, after that, use the [Sign In] option. We briefly will discuss the My NCBI option on the top right-hand side of the webpage. Each individual must Register for this option.
After registering, we suggest that each person add two Filters – Free Full Text and HINARI. Again, if you choose, you can add up to 5 filters although we recommend using the Free Full Text and HINARI ones.
We have now completed a PubMed search for hiv AND pregnancy We have now completed a PubMed search for hiv AND pregnancy. There are now three results filters – All, Free Full Text, and HINARI. To retain this search in your My NCBI account , you would click on the Save Search hypertext link. Via your My NCBI account, you can have email messages sent to you that will include citations and abstracts for all new Free Full Text and HINARI articles on this subject.
We have opened the My Saved Data listing We have opened the My Saved Data listing. You can see a list of the saved searches - ‘hiv and pregnancy’ and ‘malaria and bednets’ in this example. This registered person will receive weekly emails with new articles for these saved searches. Note that the emails you receive from the ‘saved searches’ will list the new citations in either Summary or Abstract format. Once you have the information on the specific articles, you must return to HINARI to access the full-text.
We will discuss one final option called Collections – MY NCBI We will discuss one final option called Collections – MY NCBI. While MY NCBI is active, we have completed a PubMed search for diabetes AND developing countries. This search has resulted in 1232 citations that are in the Summary display.
We have checked the boxes in the first five citations from this search We have checked the boxes in the first five citations from this search. In the Send to drop down menu, we have activated Collections and will click on Add to Collections .
In the MY NCBI Collections page, you can note that 5 items from PubMed have been transferred. We have clicked on the Create new collection button and, in the Enter a name for your collection box, written diabetes and dev ctries. To save this collection, we will click on the Save button.
This slide confirms that Your collection was saved. These MY NCBI tools are quite useful for researchers and clinicians – to be alerted about new publications on specific topics and also to save PubMed searches.
Training Materials From the initial page of the HINARI website, we have accessed the Training Materials listing. A combination of PowerPoint presentations and Word exercises, these modules are for instruction at your institution and can be adapted locally. This slide lists the modules for the principal components of HINARI. Note the Additional Resources module which features the material in the Reference Sources section. (e.g. CINAHL, Evidence-based Practice Resources). The material on the HINARI Training Materials subpage is updated quarterly. New modules also are added regularly (see Module 7: Additional Resources).
We have accessed the Module 4. PubMed We have accessed the Module 4. PubMed. Note that there are 6 unique modules that cover the key aspects of HINARI/PubMed. The PubMed website regularly undergoes updates particularly the design features. These changes are added to the specific HINARI PubMed modules as quickly as possible.
We now will view the Authorship Skills modules. We have highlighted the material in the Brief Training section. Note the Short Course that is geared toward training your institution’s users and also the Problems and Solutions modules. We now will view the Authorship Skills modules. The Short Course has been useful for the training of users. Many of these individuals do not have sufficient time to attend an extensive HINARI course. By completing the Short Course, the users can learn the key features of HINARI and HINARI/PubMed. Please remember that the training materials can be downloaded and edited for the local training.
Due to requests from participants at workshops, the Authorship Skills modules have been developed. This material reviews the peer-review publishing process, discusses copyright and plagiarism issues and includes a web-bibliography with annotated links to material on the Internet. This material is aimed at the researchers who, after completing research, need assistance in publishing the results. The Web-Bibliography has links to over 30 useful resources on the Internet.
HINARI Do’s/Users Material owned by the Publishers made available through HINARI can be used by Authorized Users or Walk-in Users An Authorized User: an institution’s or government department’s employee, permanent or visiting faculty, or student Walk-in User: anyone who comes to the Institution’s premises and is permitted by the Institution to access services there This and the subsequent three slides details who is eligible to use the material and how the various specific full-text articles and documents from the other HINARI resources can be used. Note – we encourage the distribution of the institution’s User Name and Password to ALL ‘authorized users.’
HINARI Do’s/Articles For HINARI Band 1 participants: institution may supply printed or digital materials (documents) to the institution’s employees, faculty members, students or another Authorized User remote access is permissible but limited to computers owned personally by employees or by institution publisher’s material may be placed in print Course Packs or placed in Electronic Reserves for students (delete after the end of the course)
HINARI Don’ts/Articles Downloading/Printing: users cannot download complete journal issues or books (per journal issue or book, 15% limit) Document supply: Cannot distribute documents obtained through HINARI to any other individuals or organizations outside the registered institution Document fees: The institution may not supply the document for a fee except to recover cost of printing Uploading: Cannot upload the material to or post to a publicly available website or elsewhere The initial bullet is very explicit – you cannot download all the articles from one issue of a journal or all the chapters from an e-book or other resource.
HINARI Don’ts/Access Do not give the Publisher’s Material or User Name/Password to other individuals or institutions if others are interested in HINARI, send them to their institutions’ libraries Do not access HINARI while traveling outside the country Do not put the User Name/ Password on the Institution’s website or any other Internet page Do not share or publish the ID and password through public sites on the Internet: Groups, Wikis or Blogs can put a link to initial page of HINARI or have information about HINARI These three bullets summarize the individual limits to HINARI access. Accessing HINARI from outside the country or publically displaying the User Name and Password would result in the institution needing a change in the login code. This creates a difficult problem for all the users at your institution.
http://www.research4life.org/Pages/R4L_homepage.aspx Besides HINARI, there are two ‘sister’ research4life programs – AGORA for agriculture research and OARE for environmental research. This website contains an overview of all three programs. All three programs has the same eligibility but your institution must register for each program separately.
HINARI: health research (7000 journals) http://www. who HINARI: health research (7000 journals) http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ AGORA: agriculture research (1278 journals) http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/ OARE: environment research (2990 journals) http://www.oaresciences.org/en/ updated: 04 2010 Besides the number of journals for each program, the specific web addresses are listed. Note that there is some overlap in journal titles as some specific journals fall into more than one broad discipline. If your institution includes programs that would benefit from either AGORA or OARE e-journals, you can register for these. Each program requires a separate registration and, for Band 2 countries, the $1000 payment.