Title

Presenting HINARI and Research4Life

to Visitors from Eligible Countries

[February 2012]

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

http://www.who.int/hinari/

Eligibility (01 2012)• Institutions in countries with GNI (gross national

income) per capita below $1600 or HDI (human development index) less than 0.63 are eligible for free access (Band 1/Group A)

• Institutions in countries with GNI per capita between $1601-$5000 or HDI less than 0.67 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

Contents

Registrationhttp://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/registration.php

http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/browse_institutions.php

Registrations (2)

Training Materialshttp://www.who.int/hinari/training/en/

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, OARE and ARDI.

http://www.research4life.org

AGORA(Access to Global Online Research in

Agriculture) Online portal to access information on

Agriculture and related sciencesCoordinated by FAO/Cornell University, USAFree/Low cost to >100 countries/territories 1900 journals / 75 publishers Data: 02 2012http://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 >100 countriesOver 4150 journals / 75 publishers and scholarly

societiesEnvironment and related sciences1400 registered institutionsData: 02 2012

http://www.oaresciences.org/en/

ARDI (Access to Research for Development and

Innovation )Online portal to access development and innovation

researchLaunched by the World Intellectual Property Organization

in 2009Free/Low cost to >100 countries/territoriesOver 200 journals / 75 publishers and scholarly societiessupports researchers in developing countries in creating

and developing new solutions to technical challenges faced on a local and global level

Data: 02 2012http://www.wipo.int/ardi/en/

Thank YouThe HINARI TeamWorld Health OrganizationAvenue Appia, 201211 Geneva 27SwitzerlandFax: +41 22 791 41 50hinari@who.intwww.who.int/hinariUpdated 2011 03

Updated 2012 02