We are approaching
the end of the HINARI calendar year and would like to share with you
some news on the information resources now available, recent changes you
may have noticed and updates in the forthcoming months for your
country:
· The HINARI portal was refreshed in mid-November. The ‘Full-text journals, databases and other resources’ page now features separate A-Z lists for journals and books. For the results, two tabs are now used - to show Accessible Content and All Items. We will be continuing to make further improvements to the HINARI portal in 2012, so keep checking back.
· Elsevier
Books has added approximately 6,000 reference works, individual titles
and book series on health, medicine and allied sciences. Most are located in the Find books by title list.
· Palgrave
Macmillan, a global publisher with over 160 years of independent
academic publishing, has joined HINARI offering 81 journals, including
the Journal of Public Health Policy.
· Distance Learning Courses & Video Training Series have been added to the HINARI Training Materials page - http://www.who.int/hinari/training/en/. Health and educational institutions in low-income countries can take advantage of
the free e-training materials - to conduct effective scientific
literature searches and efficiently use HINARI and other Research4Life
programmes. Thanks to the efforts of Duke University, the Information
Training and Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA), Librarians Without Borders, the World Health Organization and several volunteers worldwide.
· The HINARI Training Materials are updated regularly at http://www.who.int/hinari/training/en/. New material
include modules on E-book Resources for HINARI Users, Evidence-based
Practice Resources for HINARI Users and Information Literacy (see Module
7 – Additional Resources).
Thank you for your confidence in HINARI.
