1. HINARI Portal (Basic Course: Module 3 Part B)
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2. Click on the tab to find journals by Subject
Click on the tab to find journals by Subject. From the drop down menu, select Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases.
Note: As of October 2015, the subject categories are available in Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese.
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3. An alphabetical list of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases journals is now displayed with links to the journal websites. Scroll down and click on the title Journal of Vector Borne Diseases. After the title of the journal, the available volumes/issues are added.
Note that we are looking at the Accessible Content tab for an institution with full access – so there are many parasitology journals listed.
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4. By clicking on the journal title, you will open the journal in a new window: Journal of Vector Borne Diseases.
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5. For the Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases journals, we have opened the All Items tab for an institution where some publishers have not granted access to their material. Note the white box with the exclamation point – for journals that cannot be accessed.
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6. To find journals by language of publication, click on the Languages bar in the horizontal frame. The Languages drop down menu appear and we will choose Francais.
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7. An alphabetical list of French language journals is displayed.
Note: The editors decide the languages accepted by the journal. Some include articles in multiple languages.
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8. Select a title from the list and a new window will open at the publishers’ website: Primary Care: Journal Suisse de Medicine de Premier Recours.
Select a title from the list and a new window will open at the publishers’ website.
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9. We have displayed the Browse publisher drop down menu
We have displayed the Browse publisher drop down menu. This You have full access to: list for an institution where all the material is included in the publishers’ offer.
To see the journals that your institution has not been granted access to, scroll down to the bottom of this list.
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10. We have displayed the Browse publisher – BMJ Publishing Group Accessible Content list. It is an example from a institution where the all the Nature titles are included in publisher’s offer - noted by the green boxes.
Note again the Display Option drop down list and ability to move from one page of the A publishers titles list to another.
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11. We now will scroll down and view the Publishers list of journals as an institution that does not have full access to the publishers resources.
In the individual publisher’s All Items list, the grey box with ! will be displayed.
We are accessing this as an example with a significant list of material not included in the publishers’ offerings. Now that the exclusions can be by country and type of institution as this is complicated.
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12. We now have opened the Browse publisher – BMJ Publishing Group tab- as an institution where the titles are not included in the publisher’s offer except for 4 open access titles. The default is the Accessible Content page and no journals are listed. If you click on the All Items tab, you can view the journal titles that your institution does not have access to – for this publisher. Check other publishers to see if the journals are accessible or not.
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13. We now have opened the Browse publisher – BMJ Publishing Group All Items list. For this institution where the titles are not included in the publisher’s offer, all the titles have the ! except for the Open access journals.
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14. 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 list 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.
For more details on Hinari eBooks, go to Advanced Course: Module 7 eBooks.
This material is discussed in length in HINARI Advanced Course Module 7: ebooks that discusses the material available from HINARI and also several key sources on the Internet. Note the View complete list of books option. This listing is like the journals one – there are no hypertext links to the ebooks. You will need to return to the Books collection A-Z list.
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15. Now opened is the O list from the Books collection A-Z list
Now opened is the O list from the Books collection A-Z list. This example is for an institution where the titles are included in the publishers’ offer.
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16. We now have opened is the O list from the Books collection A-Z list - for an institution where many titles are not included in the publishers’ offer. Note that there are only 1 of 14 in initial page of the All Items display option, most of the titles will have the white box with the ! exclamation point.
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17. 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.
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18. We have opened the American Psychiatric Association Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry e-book that is searchable by keyword and broad subject categories.
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19. When opening the All Items option of the Complete List of HINARI Books, there is the Send to CSV option. You can download a list of all the books in the format used by spreadsheets.
Note: this option also is available for journals from the Complete List of HINARI Journals.
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20. Now opened is the CSV list in Excel. This is a large (<10 MB) file.
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21. From the HINARI Portal, 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.
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22. Via clicking on the Search inside HINARI… 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’ offers.
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 HINARI Portal, you will see a number of resources such as, dictionaries and encyclopedias. In this example, we have clicked on the ‘Databases and Article Searching’ and have access to a series of useful resources.
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23. Searching in Google Scholar has been discussed in the previous module – Basic Course Module 2. This tool searches for academic material and, via the links in the search result’s right column, you can access full- text material including what is available from HINARI.
Note: you must use the HINARI link to Scholar or you will be asked to login (individually) or pay for the article. Also, if the publisher does not grant access to your institution, the Scholar link will not work.
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24. Access to Full-text articles from SAML Publishers
Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Springer, Thieme and Wolters Kluwer – Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins use the SAML authentication system.
For access to full-text articles via Google Scholar (Hinari/ PubMed and Hinari/Summon), a journal from these publishers needs to be opened in Hinari prior to opening the specific programs.
Go to the Hinari Training page ( open Hinari_Basic_Course_Module_4_Appendix and follow the instructions.
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25. 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.
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26. 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.
Please spend time viewing the complete list so that you can identify other resources that will be of use to you and your institution.
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27. 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.
The Reference sources list is the 2nd option of the three lists in the right column on the training page. Again, view these resources to see which will be of use to you and those in your institution.
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28. 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 4 sources of information on evidence-based practice in HINARI.
Note: For the other evidence-based practice tools, the publisher offers these to some countries and not others.
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29. 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 several.
Many of these resources are discussed in the Advanced Course Module 4: Health Resources on the Internet.
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30. The PubMed database is an excellent source of free full text articles
The PubMed database is an excellent source of free full text articles. We will complete the HIV AND pregnancy search.
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31. In the initial page of the HIV AND pregnancy search results, there are links to Free Article(s) and Free PMC Article(s).
In this example, the Free full text available filter has been activated. The search results are 2714 citations. If you keep this filter on, it will limit all future searches to Free full text articles.
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32. HighWire Press 3
This is the HighWire Press initial page. From this site, we can locate articles or journal titles or subjects and set up an alert.
The Free Access to Developing Economies link is located on the initial page. Also of interest is the Free full-text content link.
There is a link to both pages in the Other Free Collections drop down menu on HINARI’s Full-text Journals, databases and other resources page.
Note: You can access the HighWire Press full text articles since this publisher identifies computer (IP) addresses from eligible countries. This is the ONLY exception to not needing to use your institution’s User Name and Password.
As is noted, HighWire Press is unique as you can access it directly. It contains access to many society journals. There is a link to this resource on the ‘Other Free Collections’ drop down menu that is located on the Content page of HINARI.
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33. Now displayed is the Free Access to Developing Economies list of HighWire Press – journals that are available for many HINARI eligible countries. For eligibility, see
The access is based on the computer's IP Address and you can go directly to the site using the url.
The journals listed in this resource (Free online fulltext resources) are available to countries in the World Bank’s Low Income list which is less than 20% of the HINARI total of eligible countries and territories.
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34. HighWire Press 4
This 2nd HighWire press resource can be used by all HINARI countries, in fact by users throughout the world. Some publishers allow free access to their journal ssues after 6, 12 or 24 months. This slide lists the HIghWire Press publications that are available after these different periods of time.
Within HighWire Press, now opened is the Free Online Full- Text Articles page. Users throughout the world have access to these articles. Note that some journals are a free site and others have free articles after a set period of time.
The HINARI eligible country access is a different mix of titles.
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35. The Free Collection menu includes Free Online Medical Books page of - a website that has links to full-text books for numerous medical and other topics. This gateway is searchable by keyword or topic.
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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.
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36. Basic Course Module 3 Appendix 1
See the appendix for the:
HINARI – Accessing Articles: Problems and Solutions
HINARI – Printing, Copying, Saving and ing Articles: Problems and Solutions
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37. This is the end of HINARI Basic Course Module 3
There is a Work Book to accompany this part of the module. The workbook will take you through a live session covering the topics included in this demonstration with working examples.
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