HINARI AS A SOURCE OF HEALTH INFORMATION

HINARI AS A SOURCE OF HEALTH INFORMATION

•         HINARI IS: Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative

•         Background of HINARI

•         HINARI is coordinated by WHO

•         HINARI is a public-private partnership between WHO, publishers and other health care content owners

•         HINARI provides biomedical and health care research and guidelines information to low income countries with more than 7000 journals

•         Background of HINARI Cont-

•         Non-profit academic and research institutions, governmental and policy making departments

•         HINARI REGISTRATION

•         Only one registration per institution is required; no individual registration

•         Once your institution is registered the librarian will receive a HINARI username and password

•         All members of the institution are entitled to use the institution’s username and password ie staff & students

•         HINARI LOGIN

•         You will need to enter your username and password in order to access information you require

•         From here there are a number of ways to access full text resources

•         For finding journals, the options are by title, subject category and language of publications

•         HINARI LOGIN Cont.

•         You may also search HINARI/PubMed to search for articles on a particular subject

•         When you are logged in properly, you can access the resources that HINARI offers

•         Accessing e-Journals in HINARI

•         In this section we will learn to:

•         Navigate e-Journals in HINARI

•         Access full-text journals

•         By clicking on a particular journal title, the journal will appear where you can now select the article you are interested in

•         You can also select journals from the list of publishers

•         Accessing e-Journals cont.

•         Most publishers give you three display options – abstract, summary, full-text or a document with hypertext links or PDF format

•         You can also view a list of all journals

•         Depending on your need you will choose one of these options

•         Sometimes you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these articles

•         Accessing e-Journals cont.

•         Adobe Acrobat Reader software can be downloaded freely at: www.adobe.com

•         Adobe Acrobat Reader may require computers with a bigger capacity so if installation fails consult your IT technician to verify what is the problem

•         HINARI Target Audiences

•         Eligible categories of institutions are

            - National universities

            - Research institutes

            -Professional schools eg medicine,  nursing, pharmacy, public health etc

            -Teaching hospitals

            -Govt. ministries and agencies

            -National medical libraries etc

•         Advanced searching using Boolean expression

•         Boolean expressions are used to make searches more precise

•         It enables you to limit your search to avoid unnecessary retrieval of huge information

•         The boolean expressions uses the words; AND, OR, NOT

•         Examples of searches using Boolean expressions

•         tuberculosis AND drug resistance AND developing countries

•         tuberculosis OR drug resistance

•         tuberculosis NOT drug resistance

•         Points on using boolean expression

•         In the above example; tuberculosis AND drug resistance will yield less citations than tuberculosis OR drug resistance

•         Also tuberculosis NOT drug resistance will yield few citations because we are instructing the data base to produce all citations with tuberculosis and exclude citations with the words drug resistance

•         Problems you may face in Accessing Full Text Articles

•         Improper login whereby the publisher will ask you to pay USD $35 per article

•         Technical problems with the publishers website

•         Problems with local systems configuration

•         May be the publisher has not authorized access

•         Key Points about HINARI

•         HINARI is a gateway that provides free access to health research information

•         All health sciences libraries with internet connectivity can obtain no-cost access to HINARI

•         Eligible users in your institution can use the institution’s username and password

•         Key Points about HINARI cont.

•         Proper Login is required to access most resources in HINARI

•         There are several ways to browse or find specific articles directly in HINARI

•         Source of this session is: http://www.int/hinari/training/short_courses/en/index.html

•         Exercises

•         Perform one search using a list of journals

•         Perform one search through PubMed

•         Perform one search by subject

•         Use of Boolean expressions

•         Other important data bases in health sciences

•         PERI – Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information [Free for LDC’s]

•         AIM – ie African Index Medicus

•         PubMed Central

•         WHO hdqts library – www.who.int

•         ERIC – Education Resources Information Centre

•         Other important data bases cont.

•         CINAHL – Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

•         POPLINE

•         INFORM

•         Programme to fight malaria – www.swatmalaria.org

•         Tanzania Ministry of Health & Social Welfare – www.moh.go.tz

•         Other important data bases cont.

•         East, Central and Southern African Health Community – www.crhcs.or.tz

•         World Bank – www.worldbank.org

•         K4Health – www.k4health.org