1. Research4Life programmes: Overview for Visitors from Eligible Countries
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2. Presentation Outline Background Eligibility Partners Contents
Registration
Training materials
Optional: Research4Life programmes
In 14 slides we will cover the HINARI basics.
Slides are about Research4Life programmes and optional to this presentation.
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3. 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 (Group A).
In January 2003 it was launched to “low-cost" countries (Group B).
The HINARI Programme is a public-private partnership set up by WHO together with major publishers, Yale University Library and Microsoft. HINARI enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature.
HINARI was launched in January 2002, with some 1500 journals from 6 major publishers: Blackwell, Elsevier Science, the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group, Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science, Springer Verlag and John Wiley, following the principles in a Statement of Intent signed in July 2001.

4. HINARI
Online portal to access information on health and related social sciences
Coordinated by WHO/Yale University
More than registered institutions
Up to 13,000 journals / 28,800 books / 70 other information resources / 160 publishers partners
Over journal titles, eBooks, up to 70 other information resources are now available to health institutions in 116 countries, areas and territories benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improved world health.
Since that time, the numbers of participating publishers and of journals and other full-text resources has grown continuously. Today more than 160 publishers are offering their journals. New publishers are continuing joining the programme, and the HINARI collection will continue to grow.

5. HINARI Website
This is the HINARI Website. We have also Spanish, French, Russian and Arabic translations.

6. Eligibility (1)
Country eligibility is 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). Detailed information:
If your institution is in a Group A (free access) country, area, or territory, then HINARI is free.
If your institution is in a Group B (low-cost access) country, area, or territory, HINARI costs US$ 1000 per institution, per calendar year (from January through December). This fee will be raised to $1500 in 2015.
Currently 116 countries, areas, and territories are eligible
Along the years the eligibility criteria has changed to better accommodate different factors. These changes permitted more countries to be eligible to the programmes. In 2012 we had 17 countries moved from Group B (low cost access) to Group A (free access). In 2013, we had 11 new countries in Group B. In 2014, 2 new countries joined the programme.
Individual publisher partners may customize the list of countries for their content each year.

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.
The second eligibility criteria is based on the type of institution.
HINARI does not accept registrations from individuals, only from institutions.

8. Who is Eligible for R4L Programmes?
This slide notes the location of Group A countries (blue) and Group B countries (orange). Note that the same eligibility criteria is used for all Research4Life programmes: HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI. An institution must register separately for each programme.

9. Partners Program 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
Program Partners
World Health Organization – WHO
Yale University Library
International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers – STM
Food and Agriculture Org. – FAO
United Nations Environment Programme – UNEP
World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO
National Library of Medicine
Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa
Librarians Without Borders/MLA
Microsoft Corporation
HINARI is a public-private partnership sponsored by the World Health Organization.
Each partner contributes to a different aspect of HINARI.
The partners meet at regular intervals to determine how the programme works and develops. Feedback from the participating institutions contributes significantly to the development of the programme.
The complete list of Partners is available at the link provided.

10. HINARI Portal
This is the HINARI Portal. Through each one of the tabs and links you can browse thousands of information resources. A special version of PubMed is also included.
Versions available in Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese.

11. Registration Guide http://www.research4life.org/howtoregister2/
This document is a step-by-step guide to completing the Research4Life registration online for AGORA, HINARI, OARE or ARDI. 
Using this registration you can register for multiple programmes appropriated for your institution. You will need A SEPARATE REGISTRATION for each programme.

12.
Before registering any educational institution, please check if your organization is already registered.
For doing this, click on the REGISTERED UNIVERSITIES AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS link.
You will find all the "Registered Universities and Professional Schools By Countries, Areas and Territories" which is monthly updated.
If an institution is listed as registered, please approach your institutional library or Director for the User Name and Password. If it is not possible to obtain this information, send an to the HINARI HelpDesk and they will provide the official contacts registered on the database.
Only one registration per institution is required
Please provide all the information requested, or as much as is possible.
It is also helpful to add additional information in the "Activities" field (maximum 255 characters)
The more information we get from the Registration Form, the more quickly we can evaluate the application.
The complete process may take three to five weeks as a large amount of registrations are regularly received. 
Eligible institutions can register for HINARI along with AGORA and OARE from this registration page.

13. Training Materials http://www.who.int/hinari/training/en/
The Training Materials are updated twice a year.
New materials are always under development or review.
There is also a HINARI Video Series where you will learn the basics of HINARI searching.
Periodically distance learning courses are organized in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

14. Additional Slides
You may consider to add the following slides on Research4Life programmes to your presentation.
Research4Life is the collective name for HINARI and its sister programmes: AGORA, OARE and ARDI.

15. Research4Life http://www.research4life.org
Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, Cornell and Yale Universities and ASTM, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers.
Working together with technology partners as Microsoft Corporation, the partnership’s goal is to help attain six of the United Nation's eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, reducing the scientific knowledge gap between industrialized countries and the developing world.
Research4Life is the collective name for four programmes – HINARI, AGORA , OARE and ARDI.
ARDI joined in 2011.

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
More than 2300 institutions
Up to 5200 journals / 4200 books / 20 other information resources / 230 publishers' content included

18. AGORA Portal

19. OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment)
Online portal to access environmental information
Coordinated by UNEP/Yale University
Up to Over 5500 journals / 14,000 books / 40 other information resources / 125 publishers' content included
More than 2500 registered institutions

21. OARE Portal Note that the initial Portals of each program are similar.
This also is true for the access to the journals once you have used the User Name and Password for your institution.
Remember that each programme that your institution registers for has a unique User Name and password.
These User Names and Passwords should be distributed to all staff and/or students at the institution.

22. ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation )
Online portal to access development and innovation research
Launched by WIPO in Joined R4L in 2011
More than 175 registered institutions
Supports researchers in developing countries in creating and developing new solutions to technical challenges faced on a local and global level

24. Thank you !! On behalf of the Research4Life programmes The HINARI Team
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland
@hinari_trainers