Title Presenting HINARI and Research4Life to Visitors from Eligible Countries [Dec. 2010]

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 it was launched to “low-cost" countries (Band 2). Background

Eligibility ( ) 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

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  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

Contents

Registration

Registrations (2)

Training Materials

Training Materials (2)

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:

OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment)  Online portal to access environmental information  Coordinated by UNEP/Yale University  Free/Low cost to 105 countries  Over 3900 journals / 75 publishers and scholarly societies  Environment and related sciences  1400 registered institutions  Data:

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