Module Objectives:
This module will discuss the HINARI website interface, journals, partner publisher’s resources and other full text resources. Understanding how to use the HINARI website is critical for utilizing the available resources. These skills are essential for completion of the exercises in subsequent modules.
Similarly to the first module, you will need access to the Internet and be required to complete a series of exercises.
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HINARI Portal (Basic Course: Module 3)
1. HINARI Portal
(Basic Course: Module 3)
Module Objectives:
This module will discuss the HINARI website interface,
journals, partner publisher’s resources and other full
text resources. Understanding how to use the
HINARI website is critical for utilizing the available
resources. These skills are essential for completion of
the exercises in subsequent modules.
Similarly to the first module, you will need access to the
Internet and be required to complete a series of
exercises.
1. Finding the HINARI website
The HINARI website can be found at
www.who.int/hinari Type in (or copy/paste) the url of
HINARI and the home page will open.
2. Logging in to the HINARI website
2. You will need to have your HINARI login details to do this.
You can login from the HINARI Website or the HINARI
Portal.
Select the “Login to HINARI” button.
This will take you to the Research4Life login page.
When the login page opens, enter your institutional
HINARI User Name and Password into the login
boxes and then select the Sign In button to access
the HINARI site.
Logging in to HINARI will provide authentication to
access full text articles and other resources via the
project’s portal. If you do not register using your
institution’s User Name and password, you will not
have access to the full text articles only the citations.
The Access to the Content = HINARI Portal will open.
From this page there are a number of ways to access the
full-text resources.
3. Finding journals – by title, subject, language and
publisher of publication
3.1 Locating specific journals in the HINARI Portal by
title
Journals can be accessed by title from the A-Z list. Go to
the Journals collection section, click on the alphabetical
3. letter which covers the title you are interested in. You will
see a list of all the journal titles available for the letter. To
select the journal, highlight the journal title in the
alphabetical list by clicking on it and another window will
open at the publisher’s website. Most of the times, the
journal is opened on the Archive page and then you will be
able to locate the article you are interested in and
download it.
Exercise 1
Go to the HINARI initial page
(www.who.int/hinari/)
Select the “Login to HINARI” button.
This will take you to the Research4Life login
page.
When the login page opens, enter your
institutional HINARI User Name and Password
into the login boxes and then select the Sign In
button to access the HINARI site.
From the HINARI Portal (Content home page),
go to the Journal collection Section: A-Z list.
Find BMC Public Health by clicking on B.
Select it from the list by clicking on the title.
BMC Public Health will open on the publisher’s
website.
What is the date of the latest journal article listed?
Note: other journals also include volume/issue but
this journal does not list it here.
Select article from those listed on the initial page of
the journal that are available to you and open the
full text.
What is the title and author of the full-text article
you viewed?
Why you were interested in this article and who at
your institution could use the information?
4. Go to the bottom of the initial page and click on
View All Articles. Scroll down this page. For
each article, is the volume and page listed?
When you have finished, return to the HINARI
Content page.
3.2 Finding journals by subject in the HINARI Portal
Journals can be found via a broad Subject category from
the horizontal bar.
Click on the Subject tab to select journals by broad subject
category. This will re-format the HINARI page to show a
‘drop down’ menu next to “SELECT A SUBJECT” in the
text box. Click on the arrow and the list of subjects, along
with a scroll bar appears. Select the subject area of
interest and a list of the journals for the subject appears,
along with hyperlinks to the journal websites. Selecting
the journal title will open the journal homepage in a new
browser window.
Exercise 2
From the HINARI Content page, click on Subject
from the horizontal bar.
Find Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases by
clicking on the drop down menu. You can click on
the 500 number of items option to display all the
Infectious Diseases journals. Note that journals
and books are listed in each Subject category.
Select Food and Waterborne Parasitology
(Elsevier Open) from the list by clicking on the
hyperlinked title.
The journal title will open on the publisher’s
website.
Select an article from the latest issue available to
you and open the full text.
5. What is the title and author of the full-text article
you viewed?
Go back to the drop down menu of subjects.
Choose a subject that is of interest to you.
Which subject did you choose? Name three
journals that are of particular interest to you.
When you have finished, return to the HINARI
Content page.
From the HINARI Content page, click on Subject
from the horizontal bar.
Re-open Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases or
Public Health or another broad subject
category of interest to you by clicking on the
‘drop down’ menu.
After viewing the default Accessible content tab,
click on the All items tab. Are most of the
journals accessible (with a green box)? If not,
what publishers do not offer their contents to your
institution?
Note - Some countries receive all publishers’
contents while others may not. The content offered
by publishers to countries may change year to
year.
When you have finished, return to the HINARI
Content page.
3.3 Finding journals in the HINARI website by
Language of publication
Journals can be found by language of publication by going
to the Language tab from the horizontal bar on the
Content page.
Click on the hyperlink to Language tab. This will re-
format the HINARI page to show a ‘drop down’ menu next
to SELECT A LANGUAGE in the text box. Click on the
arrow and the list of languages appears. Select the
6. language you want and an alphabetical list of the journals
in that language appears along with hyperlinks to the
journal websites.
Exercise 3
From the HINARI Content page, click on the
Languages hypertext link in the horizontal bar.
Select French by clicking on the ‘drop down’
menu.
The alphabetical list of journal titles opens. This list
is prepared by the information on the editorial
information.
Select Primary Care: Journal Suisse de
Medicine de Premier Recoursfrom the list by
following the hyperlinked title. The electronic
holdings are listed after the title.
Primary Care: Journal Suisse de Medicine de
Premier Recours will open on the publisher’s
website.
Select an article from the latest issue available to
you and open the full text.
What are the title and author of the full-text article
you viewed?
Would non-English language articles be of use in
your institution? If yes, why?
When you have finished, return to the HINARI
Content page.
3.4 Finding journals by publisher in the HINARI
website
Exercise 4
From the HINARI Content page, click on the
Publisher list from the page’s horizontal bar.
Display the list of journals for the publisher
BioMed Central by clicking on the name.
7. In HINARI, approximately how many journals are
available from this publisher?
What titles would be of interest to you or someone
at your institution?
From a title of interest to you, select the latest
Issue and choose an article to open in full text.
What are the title, author and issue of the full-text
article you viewed?
Return to the Browse Publishers list from the
page’s horizontal bar. .
Click on a publisher of interest to you.
Which HINARI journals are of specific interest and
why?
Go back to the HINARI Content page.
3.5 Finding e-books from a publisher’s list
Exercise 5
Return to HINARI’s Content page. Using the
alphabetical listing of Publishers click on Taylor &
Francis. Once the list of e-journals and e-books
is opened, browse down the alphabetical listings
and open the link to a specific e-book that is of
interest to you. Note that an e-book will have one
year for publication and an e-journal will have
several years of volumes listed (e.g. vol. 35 (2000)
– current issue). For example, #7 from the
publisher’s list is a book – Acupuncture: Efficacy,
Safety and Practice… 2000 (Taylor & Francis)
Were you able to open the book without significant
problems? What is the title of the book?
Return to Taylor & Francis e-journal and e-book
list. Open the link to the 2nd
e-book. Were you
able to open the book without significant
problems? What is the title of the book?
Note why these books are of interest to you.
8. If your institution has access to other publishers
with e-books, open these publishers’ e-journal
and e-book lists to view other book titles that are
of interest to you. Hint – the e-books will be
located in the Accessible Content list.
3.6 Finding e-books in the HINARI website
Similarly to articles, books also can be found by using the
Books collection Section: A-Z list. Click on any letter of
the alphabet to check the list of books that begin with that
letter. For each title, there is a hypertext link to the full-
text.
Exercise 6
From the HINARI Content page, click on the O
listing of the Books collection A-Z list.
Find the link to the Oxford Textbook of Medicine,
5th edition and open this E-book. You may have
to scroll down the alphabetical list to locate this
title.
Note: For some countries and type of institutions,
the publisher has chosen not to offer access to this
title. If you cannot open the contents of the book
after completing this step, go to next to last tab of
this exercise.
Scroll down the initial page and locate the Con-
tents listing. Open the Nutrition chapter link.
(You do not need an access token or sign up for
an individual subscription as access is provided
through HINARI). Look at the 6 sub-chapters and
click on the link to a chapter that is of interest to
you. Note: if you are interested in another topic,
you may open that chapter’s link.
9. The Essentials will be displayed. Click on the
Full-text option and display all the text in this sub-
chapter. Note that each chapter has a Further
Reading option at the bottom of the page. What
are the topics listed in this sub-chapter? Is the full-
text information a webpage (html) or PDF files?
Return to the Table of Contents and open
another chapter. Which chapter have you opened
and what are the topics of interest to you?
How could this electronic textbook be used in your
institution? Would the sister publication Oxford
Handbook of Tropical Medicine be useful?
Return to HINARI’s Content page.
4. Searching for articles on specific topics
PubMed is a tool for locating articles on a specific topic.
Access this by clicking on Search inside HINARI full-text
using PubMed hyperlink at the bottom of the HINARI
Content page. HINARI/PubMed searching is covered
extensively in Basic Module 4.
5. Finding other full-text resources from the HINARI
website
If you go to the Reference sources section on the
HINARI Content page, you will see a number of
resources such as dictionaries and encyclopaedias. To
select a resource click on the hyperlinked title and you will
be taken to the resource website.
Exercise 7
Accessing material from the Reference Sources
list.
From the HINARI Content page, open the
Reference sources list.
10. Select Cochrane Library by clicking on the
hyperlink. This is a resource for evidence based
medicine.
The website for the resource opens. In this case it
is a subject portal open to all HINARI registered
institutions.
Would this resource be of use to you or your
colleagues? Why?
Go back to the Reference sources list. Go back
to the Reference sources list. Open two other
resources. Which did you open? What other
resources could be of use to you or those in your
institution?
6. Free collections
Go to the Free collections section on the HINARI
content page. There is a list of sites offering access to
various free biomedical collections which are free to all
Internet users and do not require HINARI registration.
The Internet also hosts many publisher sites for which you
have to subscribe or pay a fee in order to access
published information. These include electronic journals,
reference collections, databases and electronic text
books.
7. Practice makes perfect!
You have now covered all the material in this module.
Since ‘practice makes perfect’, there are several exercises
below to complete. Remember - in order to access the
full-text journals, you will need to be logged into HINARI
with your user ID and password.
Exercise 8
11. Accessing Journals by Title – Tropical Medicine
& International Health (or a journal of your
choice)
Open your Internet Browser.
Go the HINARI website http://www.who.int/hinari
Click on the button LOGIN to HINARI.
Enter your institutional User Name and Password
and the HINARI Contents page will open.
Find the journal Tropical Medicine &
International Health by selecting the letter T from
the Journal collections A-Z list.
From the drop down menu list, select the journal
Tropical Medicine & International Health.
Select the latest issue and choose an article to
open in full text.
What article did you view and why was this article
of interest to you?
Close the Tropical Medicine & International
Health window and return to the HINARI
Contents page.
Exercise 9
Accessing Journals by Subjects
Go to the HINARI Content page.
Go to the Subject tab and open the Browse
subject drop down menu.
Choose Tropical Medicine (or a subject of your
choice) from the drop down menu.
Select the title American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene (or a journal of your
choice) from the list of titles in this subject
category.
Select the current issue and choose an article to
open in full text.
12. What article did you view and why was this article
of interest to you?
Close the American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene window and return to the
HINARI portal
Repeat the exercise with a subject category of
your own choice.
What subject did you view and why was this
subject of interest to you?
Return to the HINARI Contents page.
Assignment
You now have completed the HINARI Basic Course,
Module 3 and finished nine exercises. You have learned
what options are available in the HINARI Portal (Access
the Content Page) and how to use the available
resources.
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