HINARI website interface, journals, and other full text resources (module 2)

Instructions - This part of the:  course is a PowerPoint demonstration intended to introduce you to Basic Internet concepts.  module is off-line and is intended as an information resource for reference use. MODULE 2 HINARI/website interface, journals, and other full text resources

Table of Contents  Finding the HINARI website  Registering to access full-text electronic resources  Logging in to the HINARI website  Finding journals  Finding articles  Other full-text resources  Other free collections  Appendices HINARI – Accessing Articles: Problems and Solutions HINARI – Printing, Copying, Saving and ing Articles: Problems and Solutions

Welcome to the HINARI Homepage. This tutorial will look at how to use the HINARI website.

To access the HINARI website, enter the URL

Choose a language option. This tutorial will be in English.

Your institution must be registered for you to gain access to the full-text electronic resources. Click on the Register link to access the step-by- step guide – to see if your institution is registered or must complete this process.

This document is a step-by-step guide to completing the Research4Life online registration process. You will check to make sure your institution is not already registered. There is a link to the online registration form.

From this page, institutions can register for all 3 Research4Life programmes (and do NOT need to register for each individually). Read the instructions carefully – to check eligibility of your institution and also to properly fill out the form. To check on Registered Universities and Professional Schools by Countries, Areas and Territories, click on here. For more information, go to Registration and Eligibility Frequently Asked Questions: and_eligibility/en/index.html

Note the detailed contact information that is required (registrant, Librarian/Information Liaison, Director and Computer Support Officer). Please make sure you completely fill out the REQUIRED information or the registration cannot be properly processed. Remember only one registration per institution is required. If not registered, complete form, enter the Registration Once the institution is registered, the librarian will receive a HINARI User Name and Password. All members of the institution can use the institution’s User Name and Password. For a step-by-step guide to registering for all R4L programmes, go to: how_to_register

We have displayed the access page to the Registered Universities and Professional Schools by Countries, Areas and Territories PDF documents for HINARI, AGORA and OARE. To download the PDF file, click on the HINARI list.

` This is one of the pages of the 'Institution profile' that you will not be able to view. Note the important Contact Details that can contain 'out-of-date' information. For updating contacts, please provide the full names of your country, institution, librarian and/or director, and his/her address(es), to the trainers or to HINARI via

We now have opened the Eligibility page. Note the descriptions of the Group A (free access) and Group B (low-cost access). The countries, areas and territories in each group are listed at the bottom of this page. Group B institutions that cannot or choose not to pay the annual fee will have free access to some resources.

This page lists the publishers who have made some resources available to Group B institutions that cannot or choose not to pay the annual fee.

Login to the HINARI website by clicking on LOGIN. Note: If you do not login into HINARI, you will not get access to the full text articles.

Workshop User Name/ Password User Name: Password:

Logging into HINARI 2 We will need to enter our HINARI User Name and Password in the appropriate boxes, then click on the Login button. Note: If you do not properly sign on, you will not have access to full text articles.

Once logged-in, you will be taken into the Access the content sub-page of the website. Note the ‘Logged in from: Belize’ message. That line will list your country. This proper login also can be confirmed by the hinari-gw.who.int/whalecommextranet... url

If you fail to use the Login page, you will have a second option on the Content page. Note the key access choices – Journals collection, Books collection, and, on the horizontal frame, Subjects, Languages, Publishers and a link to the Training Materials. Also note the Register for HINARI link to a step- by-step guide plus other information.

In this example, we opened the Browse Subject ‘HIV/AIDS’ listing (without the proper login) and clicked on the Accessible Content option. Of the initial17 journals titles listed, only 2 are Full access to this content for everyone while there are 15 that are not accessible You must log in to have full access to this content through HINARI.

Journals can be accessed by title from an alphabetical list. For this exercise, click on ‘L’ from the A-Z list. Note: there also is a View complete list of journals option although this drop down menu does not have hypertext links to the journals.

We have displayed the ‘L’ journal list. Click on the title for The Lancet. The default is the Accessible Content page. This and the All Items displays will be discussed in subsequent slides. The green box notes access to the contents of the journal for you while the ! notes that your institution is denied access (predominantly Group B although some Group A with exclusions). Note that the ‘years of volumes’ available are listed after the journal title.

Accessing journals by title 4 Another window will open at the journal publisher’s website usually with access to the current issue.

For each article, there are three options: [Abstract], [Full Text] or [PDF] formats.

You can get the article in Full Text or HTML format that includes links to sections of the article, bibliographic citations or related articles.

With the PDF or Portable Document Format, you will receive a scanned image of the article. This format is similar to the traditional print option. To download a PDF document, you will need a copy of the Adobe Acrobat program which can be download freely from the Adobe website:

Click on the link to find journals by Subjects. From the drop down menu, we will select Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases.

An alphabetical list of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases journals is now displayed with links to the journal websites. Click on the title Trends in Parasitology After the title of the journal, the available volumes/issues are listed.

By clicking on a journal title, you will open the journal in a new window: Trends in Parasitology.

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 French.

An alphabetical list of French language journals is displayed. The ‘green’ box notes the access status for your institution.

Accessing journals by Language 4 Select a title from the list and a new window will open at the publishers’ website. Select a title from the list and a new window will open at the publishers’ website: Medecine et Maladies Infectieuses

We have displayed the Browse publisher drop down menu. This You have full access to: list is an example from a Group A country with no exclusions.

We have displayed the Browse publisher – Nature Publishing Accessible Content list. It is an example from a Group A country with no exclusions.

We now will open the Publishers list of journals as an institution that does not have full access to the publishers resources. Note the You do not have full access to: list - for an institution where the publisher has not granted access (either in Group B or Group A with exclusions).

We now have opened the Browse publisher – Springer list - as an institution where the publisher has not granted access (either in Group B or Group A with exclusions). The default is the Accessible Content page. If you click on the All Items option, you can view the journal titles that your institution does not have access to.

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 drop down menu 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.

Now opened is the O list from the Books by title drop down menu.. This example is for a Group A institution with no exclusions.

We now have opened is the O list from the Books by title drop down menu - for a Group B or Group A institution with exclusions. Note that there are only 2 items in the Accessible Content list. In the All Items display option, most of the titles will have the white box with the exclamation point.

The Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 5 th edition 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. The initial page contains an ‘expandable’ table of contents that details the contents of each topic. Also available is the Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine, 3 rd edition.

Also included in the Reference Sources listing are numerous psychiatry/psychology related full-text resources. We have opened the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines tool that is searchable by keyword and broad subject categories.

From the HINARI Content page, 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.

Via clicking on the Database and article searching 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’ exclusions.

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.

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.

A third resource from the Databases and (Bibliographic) Indexes menu is Scirus. It is a searchable database to over 370 million scientific items including journal content, scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information. It also contains numerous SciTopics pages on medicine and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology.