Title Presenting HINARI and Research 4 Life to

Title Presenting HINARI and Research 4 Life to Visitors from Eligible Countries [Dec. 2010]

HINARI Outline Background Eligibility Partners Contents Registration Training materials Optional: Research 4 Life

Background 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).

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

Eligibility Country eligibility based on gross national income (GNI) per capita (World Bank figures). Band 1 countries have GNI per capita below $1600; eligible for free access. Band 2 countries have GNI per capita between $1601 - $4700; pay a fee of $1000 per year / institution. Lists of countries, areas and territories: http: //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 Bio. One Springer Wiley-Blackwell Sage Taylor & Francis Lippincott/Williams & Wilkins 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 http: //extranet. who. int/hinari/en/partners. php

Contents

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

Registrations (2)

Training Materials http: //www. who. int/hinari/training/en/

Training Materials (2)

Additional Slides You may consider to add the following slides on Research 4 Life to your presentation. Research 4 Life is the collective name for HINARI and its Sister Programmes: AGORA and OARE.

http: //www. research 4 life. org

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 1278 journals / 40 publishers >1800 registered institutions Data: 06 2010 http: //www. aginternetwork. org/en/

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 2990 journals / 340 publishers and scholarly societies Environment and related sciences 1400 registered institutions Data: 06 2010 http: //www. oaresciences. org/en/

Thank You The HINARI Team World Health Organization Avenue Appia, 20 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland Fax: +41 22 791 41 50 hinari@who. int www. who. int/hinari