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| Abbreviation | Hinari |
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| Formation | 2001 |
| Founders | Blackwell, Elsevier Science, the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group, Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science, Springer Verlag and John Wiley |
| Purpose | To provide free or low-cost online access to academic journals |
| Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland |
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Parent organization | World Health Organization |
| Website | www |
Hinari Access to Research for Health Programme was set up by the World Health Organization and major publishers to enable developing countries to access collections of biomedical and health literature. There are up to 15,000 e-journals and up to 60,000 online books available to health institutions in more than 10 countries. Hinari is part of Research4Life, the collective name for five programs - Hinari (focusing on health), AGORA (focusing on agriculture), OARE (focusing on environment), ARDI (focusing on applied science and technology) and GOALI (focusing on law and justice).[1] Together, Research4Life provides lower income countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.[1]
The Hinari programme, and the other programmes, were reviewed for the second time in 2010 and the publishers involved have committed to continuing with it until at least 2025. Hinari has received the high honor of the Medical Library Association's 2015 Louise Darling Medal for Collection Development in the Health Sciences.[2]
- ^ a b "Our commitment to universal access to medical research § About Research4Life". The Lancet. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- ^ Hickner, Andy (17 March 2015). "MLA awards 2015 Louise Darling Medal to Yale partner HINARI". The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Retrieved 2016-03-19.