Research4Life Programmes/ Key Points for Use
Table of Contents Main features Logging in Finding journals Finding books Other full-text resources Databases (PubMed) Navigating through a database (PubMed) Research4Life programmes Training Materials
Main features
Example:
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.
We will need to enter our HINARI User Name and Password in the appropriate boxes, then click on the Login button. To have access to the full text articles, you must properly sign in. If you do not use the Internet Explorer Web browser, this slide will be all you see (as of 01 April 2014). If you use Internet Explorer, you will continue to have a two-step login process.
If you are using Internet Explorer, repeat the Login process on this 2 nd page and you will be redirected to the HINARI Contents page.
Once logged-in, you will be taken into the Access the content sub-page of the website. Note the Logged in from: Test Account message. That line will list your country. This proper login also can be confirmed by the hinarilogin.research4life.org/... url
Journals can be accessed by title from an alphabetical list. For this exercise, click on C from the A-Z list. Note: there also is a View complete list of journals option although this list does not have hypertext links to the journals.
We have displayed the C journal list. The default is the Accessible Content page. Click on the title for Canadian Geotechnical Journal. The green box notes access to the contents of the journal for you while the! Notes specific journals that are titles not included in publishers offer to your institution. Note that the years of volumes available are listed after the journal title.
Another window will open at the journal publisher s website usually with access to the online issues.
In this example, we opened the Browse Subject Entomology/Pest Control listing (without the proper login) and clicked on the All Items option. Of the initial17 journals titles listed, only 3 are Full access to this content for everyone while there are 14 that are not accessible You must log in to access AGORA to have full access to this content.
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 page 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.
We have opened the American Psychiatric Association Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry e-book 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.
CINAHL (EBSCO) is one of the resources 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.
Now we have clicked on the Reference Sources link and opened the Browse reference sources A-Z list. Many of these resources contain fulltext information on a variety of topics.
Cochrane Library contains high quality, independent evidence for health care decision making. It includes numerous access options including via keyword, MeSH terms and category listings. Cochrane Library is one of 3 sources of information on evidence-based practice in HINARI.
This page contains a series of modules that detail many of the features of HINARI that we have discussed but in more detail. It includes access to the distance learning courses. Note Module 7 that contains information about additional resources available from the HINARI website.
Looking for More Information? www.research4life.org HINARI www.who.int/hinari hinari@who.int AGORA www.aginternetwork.org agora@fao.org OARE www.unep.org/oare oare@unep ARDI www.wipo.int/ardi ardi@wipo.int
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