HINARI website interface, journals,
and other full text resources
(module 2)
MODULE 2
HINARI/website interface, journals,
and other full text resources
Instructions - This part of the:
course is a PowerPoint demonstration intended
to introduce you to Basic Internet concepts.
module is off-line and is intended as an
information resource for reference use.
Table of Contents
 Finding the HINARI website
 Registering to access full-text electronic resources
 Logging in to the HINARI website
 Finding journals
 Finding articles
 Partner publishers’ websites (continued in module 3)
 Other full-text resources
 Other free collections
 Appendices
• HINARI – Accessing Articles: Problems and
Solutions
• HINARI – Printing, Copying, Saving and
Emailing Articles: Problems and Solutions
Welcome to the HINARI Homepage
Welcome to the HINARI Homepage. This tutorial
will look at how to use the HINARI website.
The HINARI website address
To access the HINARI website, enter the
URL http://www.who.int/hinari/
Choose a language option
Choose a language option.
This tutorial will be in English.
Registration 1
Your institution must be registered for you to gain
access to the full-text electronic resources.
Click on the Register link to access the form – to
see if your institution is registered or must
complete this process.
Before registering your institution, you need to check if your
organization already has registered. Click on the
REGISTERED UNIVERSITIES AND PROFESSIONAL
SCHOOLS link. This list is updated weekly.
Note that you also can confirm that your institution is
eligible for HINARI by clicking on the (check eligibility) link.
From the drop down menu, click on your country
– to see the list of registered institutions. For this
exercise, we have chosen Viet Nam.
If your institution is registered, contact the
Librarian or Director for the User Name and
Password. If you are not able to do this, contact
HINARI at hinari@who.int. Please note that
only Universities and Professional Schools are
included in these lists.
Note: Only ONE registration per institution is
required/preferred.
This is one of the pages
` of the 'Institution profile' that you will
not be able to view. Note the important Contact Details that
can contain 'out-of-date' information.
For updating contacts, please provide the full names of your
country, institution, librarian and/or director, and his/her e-mail
address(es), to the trainers or to HINARI via hinari@who.int .
Registration 2
Only one registration per institution is required. If not
registered, complete form, enter the Registration Check and
click on Send Registration.
Once the institution is registered, the librarian will receive a
HINARI User Name and Password. All members of the
institution – researchers, teaching staff, librarians, students
etc. – are entitled to use the institution’s User Name and
Password.
Logging in to HINARI 1
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.
Workshop User Name/
Password
User Name:
Password:
Logging into HINARI 2
We will need to enter our HINARI User Name and
Password in the appropriate boxes, then click on the
Login button.
Note: If you do not properly sign on, you will not have
access to full text articles.
If you fail to use the Login page, you will have a
second option on the Full text journals,
databases, and other resources sub-page.
Once logged-in, you will be taken into the Full
text journals, databases, and other resources
sub-page of the website.
Note the ‘You are logged’ in message. This
proper login also can be confirmed by the
hinari-gw.who.int/whalecommextranet... url
Accessing journals by title 1
Journals can be accessed by title from an
alphabetical list.
For this exercise, click on ‘L’ from the A-Z list.
Note: there also is a View complete list of
journals option.
We have displayed the ‘L’ journal list. Click on the title for The Lancet.
The green box notes access to the contents of the journal for you while
the ! notes that your institution is denied access (predominantly Band 2
although some Band 1).
Note that the ‘years of volumes’ available are listed after the journal title.
Accessing
journals
by
title
4
Another window will open at the journal
publishers’ website.
For each article, there are three options:
[Abstract], [Full Text] or [PDF] formats.
You can get the article in Full Text or HTML
format that includes links to sections of the
article, bibliographic citations or related articles.
With the PDF or Portable Document Format, you
will receive a scanned image of the article. This
format is similar to the traditional print option .
To download a PDF document, you will need a
copy of the Adobe Acrobat program which can be
download freely from the Adobe website:
http://www.adobe.com
Other methods of finding journals
Articles can also be found via PubMed,
Subject listing, Language, and Publisher.
Accessing journals by via PubMed
Click on the link to find articles through PubMed.
Using PubMed will be covered in subsequent modules.
Accessing journals by subject 1
Click on the link to find journals by Subject.
Accessing journals by subject 3
From the drop down menu, we have
selected Parasitology and Parasitic
Diseases.
Accessing journals by subject 4
An alphabetical list of Parasitology and
Parasitic Diseases journals is now
displayed with links to the journal
websites.
Click on the title Trends in Parasitology
After the title of the journal, the available
volumes/issues are listed.
By clicking on a journal title, you
will open the journal in a new
window: Trends in Parasitology.
Accessing journals by Language 1
To Find journals by language of publication,
click on the drop down menu.
Accessing journals by Language 2
In this example, we will look
for French language journals.
Accessing journals by Language
continued
An alphabetical list of French
language journals is displayed.
The ‘green’ box notes the access
status for your institution.
Accessing journals by Language 4
Select a title from the list and a new window will open at
the
publishers’
website:
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Maladies
Select
a title from
the listMedecine
and a new
willInfectieuses
open at
the publishers’ website.
Partner
publisher
services
1
We can also access full text resources from Partner
publishers’ websites by selecting from drop down menu.
Using Partner publishers’ websites will be taught in next
module.
Partner publisher services
continued
Once we have selected a publishers’
resource, a new window will open – in
this case Wiley-Blackwell InterScience.
Partner publisher services 3
We have selected Elsevier Science Direct, another
Partner publishers’ website.
Other full text sources 1
There are a number of Databases and (Bibliographic) Indexes, these
can be accessed from the list on the right-hand side of the website.
African Index Medicus
We have selected African Index Medicus.
Other
full
text
sources
2
There are also a number of Reference Sources. In this example,
we will visit the resource Cochrane Library.
Note how the drop down menu will list which sites your institution
has access to – with more limits for Band 2 countries.
Other full text sources 3
Here is the Cochrane Library resource.
This is an evidence based medicine
database and is available to HINARI
registered institutions.
Free full text collections 1
There is a list of Other Free Collections that includes
various free medical e-book and e-journal
collections. These sites are free to all Internet users
and do not require HINARI registration.
Free full text collections 2
To select BioMed Central, click on the link in the Other Free
Collections drop down menu.
This is the end of Module 2
This is the initial page of the BioMed Central
website and you can access journals by an A-Z
title list, broad subject categories and a keyword
search tool.
This is the end of Module 2.
There is a workbook to accompany this module.
The workbook will take you through a live session
covering the topics included in this demonstration
with working examples.
Updated 02 2009
Access problems can be caused by:
1) failure to properly LOGIN with the institution's User Name/Password
2) technical problems at the Publisher's website
3) or problems with local systems (configuration of user institution’s
firewall, configuration of browser)
4) The publisher has not authorized access – mostly for Band 2 countries
Consequently, you may see a message on the Publisher‘ denying
access and requesting Sign In or Purchase Short-Term Access.
Note: Your HINARI institutional ‘User Name/Password’ will NOT work.