HINARI Overview (For Presentations at Registered Institutions)
Table of Contents Benefits/Audiences Partners HINARI E-Journal Access Features Other HINARI Resources Reference Sources Evidence Based Medicine resources Other Free Collections HINARI/PubMed Features Training Material Do’s and Don’t’s Research4Life Programs
More than 100 countries, territories and areas HINARI: health research (12700 journals, books and 70 information resources, 5400 registered institutions) AGORA: agriculture research (3500 journals, 3400 books, 20 information resources, 2300 registered institutions) OARE: environment research (5300 journals, books, 40 other information resources, 2500 registered institutions) ARDI: development and innovation research (2000 journals, 500 books, 80 registered institutions) updated updated:
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.
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.
Partners Principal 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 Food and Agriculture Org. – FAO United Nations Environment Programme – UNEP World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO 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
Eligibility ( ) 1.Countries, areas, or territories with a total GNI above US$ 1 trillion are not eligible for HINARI regardless of other factors 2. Core Offer Group A - Free Access All countries, areas, or territories fulfilling any of the below criteria: a. UN Least Developed Country List and/or b. Human Development Index (HDI) is at or less than 0.50 and/or c. Total Gross National Income (GNI) is at or less than US$ 150 billion where: HDI is at or less than 0.63 and/or Gross National Income per capita (GNIpc) is at or less than US$ 1600
3. Core Offer Group B - Fee access with $1000 annual fee per institution: a. Total GNI is at or less than US$ 1 billion and/or b. Total GNI is at or less than US$ 20 billion where GNIpc is at or less than US$10,000 and/or c. Total GNI is at or less than US$ 180 billion where: HDI is at or less than 0.67 and/or GNIpc is at or less than US$ 5000
HINARI Website This is the initial page of the HINARI website. Note in the left-hand column, that there are links to the Access to Content, Eligibility,, FAQs and Training Materials pages. To access the HINARI website, enter the URL We will Login to look at the options for accessing full-text journal articles and other resources. `
We will need to enter our HINARI User Name and Password in the appropriate boxes, then click on the Login button. To have access to the full text articles, you must properly sign in. If you do not use the Internet Explorer Web browser, this slide will not appear (as of 01 April 2014). If you use Internet Explorer, you will continue to have a two-step login process.
Repeat the Login process on this 2 nd page and you will be redirected to the HINARI Contents page.
Once logged-in, you will be taken into the Access the content sub-page of the website. Note the ‘Logged in from: Test Account’ message. That line will list your country. This proper login also can be confirmed by the hinarilogin.research4life.org/... url
If you fail to use the Login page, you will have a second option on the Content page. Note the key access choices – Journals collection, Books collection, and, on the horizontal frame, Subjects, Languages, Publishers and a link to the Training Materials. Also note the Register for HINARI link to a step- by-step guide plus other information.
Journals can be accessed by title from an alphabetical list. For this exercise, click on ‘L’ from the A-Z list. Note: there also is a View complete list of journals option although this drop down menu does not have hypertext links to the journals.
We have displayed the ‘L’ journal list. Click on the title for The Lancet. The default is the Accessible Content page. This and the All Items displays will be discussed in subsequent slides. The green box notes access to the contents of the journal for you while the ! Notes specific journals that are titles not included in publishers’ offer to your institution. Note that the ‘years of volumes’ available are listed after the journal title.
Accessing journals by title 4 Another window will open at the journal publisher’s website usually with access to the current issue.
Another option to find articles through HINARI/PubMed. PubMed is an database with citations and annotations to over 22,000,000 articles. Using this option will be discussed later in this presentation.
Click on the link to find journals by Subjects. From the drop down menu, we will select Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases.
An alphabetical list of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases journals is now displayed with links to the journal websites. Click on the title Trends in Parasitology After the title of the journal, the available volumes/issues are listed.
To find books by title, click on the appropriate Books collection alphabetical letter. Note that there is a View complete list of books option although this drop down menu does not have hypertext links to the specific titles. You will need to go back to the Books collection A-Z list to open any e-books.
Now opened is the O list from the Books collection A-Z list. This example is for a Group A institution with no exclusions.
The Oxford Textbook of Medicine 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. Scroll down this page to the ‘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.
From the HINARI Content page, you also can open the Search inside HINARI full-text through database and article searching, Reference sources and Free collections lists. Note: Many of these resources are underutilized by HINARI users as most individuals concentrate on obtaining full-text journal articles.
Via clicking on the Database and article searching link, we have opened the Browse databases A-Z list. Similar to other access points, there are the Accessible Content and All Items listings that depend on the Publishers’ exclusions.
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.
Now we have clicked on the Reference Sources link and opened the Browse reference sources A-Z list. Many of these resources contain full- text information on a variety of topics.
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.
From the Free Collections drop down menu, you can access other free e-journal gateways and be able to obtain full-text articles. We will examine one of these – Highwire Free to Developing Economies.
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 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.
PubMed Overview From the main HINARI webpage, we can access PubMed by clicking on Search HINARI journal articles through PubMed (Medline). Note: If you do not properly sign on, you will not have access to full text articles from the HINARI/PubMed database.
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.
Results of the search are displayed in the main body of the page in Summary Format, 20 Items per Page and Recently Added Sort by options. This is the default setting when you complete a search. Note the two additional filters for Free Full Text and HINARI articles. These have been created in the HINARI/PubMed searches saved in My NCBI (see module 4.5). Of the 4849 articles, 2159 are available via the HINARI filter and 2115 with Free full text filter ( there are some overlaps).
Note the additional hypertext link for Free article. By clicking on this link, you will be re-directed to the Abstract display and be able to access the full text. Also note the bolded terms of the search – malaria, infections and Africa and the Search details box.
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.
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 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 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 the search results. From the Send To drop down menu, we have selected the with the Summary and Recently added options. You also have the option of sending citations to files.
From the initial (HINARI) PubMed page, we will run the HIV and pregnancy search and then apply various Filters. This is another invaluable tool to find the specific articles that are of interest to you. PubMed Filters
Filters 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. The filters listed in the left column are the default ones.
In the Specify Custom Date Range filter, we have entered the first date of 2013 range to date (2013/01/01 to blank) and clicked on the Apply icon.
In the Article types, we have clicked on the Practice Guidelines and Review options. The results of the HIV and pregnancy search are 2301 citations. Remember to clear these filters.
MY NCBI We briefly will discuss the My NCBI option on the top right-hand side of the webpage. Each individual must Register for this option.
Both filters we have selected are listed in the Your PubMed filter list. You can delete any filter by clicking on the check in the Active column.
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 messages sent to you that will include citations and abstracts for all new Free Full Text and HINARI articles on this subject.
In the My NCBI page, you can see a list of the saved searches in the Saved Searches box - in this case ‘HIV AND pregnancy’ and ‘malaria AND bednets’.. Note: the that you receive from MY NCBI will have citations to recently published articles. To get the full-text article, you will need to return to HINARI and locate the specific journal issue.
We have returned to the Content page of the HINARI website as we want to open the Training resources webpage:
This page contains a series of modules that detail many of the features of HINARI that we have discussed – but in more detail. Note Module 7 that contains information about additional resources available from the HINARI website and the links to the distance learning courses.
This additional slide highlights the Brief training HINARI Short Course and various Training Tools plus Presentations. Also note the Authorship Skills material – series of modules written to assist researchers in publishing their outcomes.
The final slide highlights the Authorship Skills modules. This material was developed after requests from researchers at R4L workshops.
This is the 1 st slide of the distance learning version of the Short Course. It uses the Moodle software (an online course management system) and is accessible from mla.mrooms.org Also available is the HINARI Train the Trainers Course.
All three R4L Short Courses also are available from the ITOCA website – primarily for those in sub-Saharan Africa. Go to moodle.itoca.org for more information.
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
HINARI Do’s/Articles 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
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
Besides HINARI, there are two ‘sister’ research4life programs – AGORA for agriculture research and OARE for environmental research. In 2011, ARDI (Access for Research and Development and Innovation) joined as a partner.
AGORA – ‘Content’ Page
OARE – ‘Content’ Page
updated: ARDI – ‘Content’ Page