HINARI

Hinari Access to Research for Health Programme was set up by the World Health Organization and major publishers to enable developing countries to access collections of biomedical and health literature. There are up to 15,000 e-journals and up to 60,000 online books available to health institutions in more than 10 countries. Hinari is part of Research4Life, the collective name for five programs - Hinari, AGORA, OARE, ARDI and GOALI. Together, Research4Life provides lower income countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.

History

In response to a call by the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and to a statement issued by Gro Harlem Brundtland the then Director General World Health Organization, Hinari was launched in July 2001 with a statement of intent from six major publishers: Blackwell Publishing, Elsevier, the Harcourt, Wolters Kluwer, Springer Science+Business Media, and John Wiley & Sons. The Hinari name began as an acronym of Health Inter-Network Access to Research Initiative. 3,750 journal titles were accessible via Hinari in 2007. ==Access==

Access

Institutions eligible to access the information are: national universities, professional schools (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, dentistry), research institutes, teaching hospitals and healthcare centers, government offices, national medical libraries and local non-governmental organizations. ==Criteria for countries==

Criteria for countries

The country lists are based on four factors: Total GNI (World Bank figures), GNI per capita (World Bank figures), United Nations Least Developed Country (LDCs) List and Human Development Index (HDI). In 2007 users and members of eligible institutions in 113 countries had access. ==Related initiatives==

Related initiatives

• TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library) • AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) • OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment) • ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation) • GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information) ==References==

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