1. Title Presenting HINARI and Research4Life to Visitors from Eligible Countries [Dec. 2010]

2. HINARI Outline  Background  Eligibility  Partners  Contents  Registration  Training materials  Optional: Research4Life

3.  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

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

5. 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/

7. 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.

8. 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

9. Contents

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

11. Registrations (2)

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

13. Training Materials (2)

14. 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 and OARE.

15. http://www.research4life.org

16. 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/

18. 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/

20. 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