1. Review Key Teaching Points
(Answer Sheet)

2. Search Strategies/Website Evaluation
Google vs. Google Scholar
Google Scholar search results are citations to academic/research material
Hinari/Google Scholar has links to ‘free full text’ articles and ‘some’ Hinari full text articles that are available through the program.
Google is useful for basic information on a health topic (dengue fever, ebola) from organizations like the World Health Organization and (US) Centers for Disease Control
a & b & c

3. Search Strategies/Website Evaluation
Some of the citations in Google and Scholar searches have links to full-text articles. These links open
free-full text (open access) articles
articles from commercial publishers where you will be asked to pay
a & b
neither a or b

4. Search Strategies/Website Evaluation
PubMed is:
a National Library of Medicine (US) database of over 26,000,000 biomedical citations with abstracts for most of the articles
has a controlled vocabulary called MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
has a keyword search engine that used the MeSH vocabulary and keywords
contains links to some full-text articles
a & b & c & d

5. Search Strategies/Website Evaluation
For the Boolean operators:
‘AND’ will combine two concepts and limit the search results to the specific terms
‘OR’ will limit a search to one word
‘NOT’ will narrow a search and eliminate related terms but possibly can eliminate useful citations
a & b
a & c

6. Search Strategies/Website Evaluation
When you evaluate a website, which combination of concepts would be useful:
accuracy, author’s name and address, objectivity
accuracy, objectivity, size of website, currency
accuracy, authority, currency, objectivity, design/navigation
authority, date website was created, design/navigation

7. Hinari Portal
To find a journal by title and open the full-text of a specific article, go to:
View complete list of journals
Journals collection A-Z list
Subject list
a & b

8. Hinari Portal
If you know the publisher of a journal but are not sure of the title, go to:
Subject list
Publisher list
Journals collection A-Z list

9. Hinari Portal
If the green icon is before a journal title, your institution:
has access to the contents
does not have access to the contents
you need to look at the ‘all items’ list to check

10. Hinari Portal
After logging into Hinari and clicking on one of the Journals collection A-Z letters, the
the initial ‘accessible content’ list is displayed and has green boxes for journals you can access and also the ‘!’ symbol for ones you cannot access
the initial ‘accessible content’ lists is displayed but lists only titles you have access to (green boxes)
the ‘all items’ can be opened by user and lists both titles you can and cannot not open (green boxes and ! symbols)
b & c

11. Hinari Portal The Publisher option initially contains:
a list of only what your institution has access to
a list of publishers that grant access to their titles followed by a list of publishers who have not granted access
one list with publishers that grant access and publishers that do not grant access mixed together

12. Hinari Portal
If you have problems accessing a full-text article (for example, the publisher asks you to pay for the article), you can:
Open the Hinari portal PowerPoint presentation
send an directly to Hinari )
open the ‘Access Problems and Solutions’ PowerPoint presentation and follow the step-by-step instructions
d) b & c

13. Hinari/PubMed Database
After completing a search in Hinari/PubMed, the initial display contains:
Summary format – with the citation (author, title, volume/issue/pages and date) plus links to ‘Free articles’ and ‘Free PMC articles’
Abstract format – all of above plus an abstract of the article
‘Free full text’ and ‘Hinari’ filters (top right of display)
a & c

14. Hinari/PubMed Database
From the Abstract format, access includes:
Citation, abstract and links (icons) to many full-text articles (Hinari, publisher or free full text icons)
citation, abstract and links (icons) to full-text articles for all the citations
citation, abstract but no links to full-text articles

15. Hinari/PubMed Database
The ‘HINARI’ filter has access to:
only Hinari but not free-full text journals
all Hinari journals (that publishers may or may not have granted access to) and free-full text articles that are from HINARI participating publishers
only Hinari journals that your institution has access to and free-full text articles that are from Hinari participating publishers

16. Hinari/PubMed Database
You get links to the publishers’ websites (and the full-text articles) from the:
Summary format
Abstract format
a & b

17. Hinari/PubMed Database
To use the ‘send to file’ option, you must:
highlight the title of the citations you want to save
put check marks in the boxes before the titles of the article
go to the Abstract display option
either a or b

18. Hinari/PubMed Filters and History
use ‘keywords’ to limit search results
can limit searches by category
automatically clears any filter that you use
allow multiple filters to be used simultaneously
b & d

19. Hinari/PubMed Filters and History
Filter options include:
Article type (review, clinical trial, meta-analysis, etc.)
Publication Dates
Language
Ages
Search fields (author, affiliation, journal, etc.)
a & b & c & d & e

20. Hinari/PubMed Filters and History
If you do not ‘clear options’ the highlighted filter(s)
will automatically be removed
will need to be manually removed unless you want to use the filter for the next search
cannot be removed unless you go to the ‘Advanced Search’ option

21. Hinari/PubMed Filters and History
Options to clear filters include:
‘clear’ button next to highlighted filter
‘clear all’ button at the bottom of the filters column and below the ‘search results’ line
By clicking on the highlighted filter
a & b & c

22. Hinari/PubMed Filters and History
In Advanced Search,
Previous searches can be combined by adding the #s in ‘Search Builder’ boxes using Boolean operators
Previous searches can be combined by #s and additional keyword or MeSH terms can be added in the ‘Search Builder’ boxes
When you combine searches, the results (# of citations) always will be larger
a & c
a & b

23. Summon Search Tool Summon is
A Google like search tool that provides fast/relevancy ranked results
Contains links to Hinari e-journals and e-book chapters and the complete books
Has an abstract of the article or book chapter plus options for refining your search
Is a very sophisticated tool that gives you more precise search results than Hinari/PubMed
a & b & c & d
a & b & c

24. Summon Search Tool
If available, use your Summon Country specific search option because it
Links to only journal articles accessible in your specific country
Links to journal articles, e-book chapters, e-books from all R4L publishers
Links to journal articles, e-book chapters, e-books available in your specific country (publishers grant access)
List of all search results with links only to what is available in your country
a & d

25. Created by Hatem Nour El-Din Hassan Mohamed
Technical Officer, Knowledge Sharing and Production
WHO/EMRO
Updated