HINARI Portal
(Basic Course: Module 3)
Table of Contents
 Background
 Finding the HINARI website
 Logging in to the HINARI website
 Finding journals
 Finding articles
 Other full-text resources
 Other free collections
 Appendices
• HINARI – Accessing Articles: Problems and
Solutions
• HINARI – Printing, Copying, Saving and
Emailing Articles: Problems and Solutions
Objectives of Research4Life (R4L)
• To connect developing world researchers
with the international scientific community
• To reduce the ‘publishing gap’ and
improve the quality of locally produced
articles and journals
• Ultimately – improve health, food security
and environment in to Millennium
Development Goals that were developed
in 2000
• More than 100 countries, areas and territories
• HINARI: health research (up to 13000 journals,
up to 28800 books and up to 70 other
information resources, 5600 registered
institutions) www.who.int/hinari/en/
• AGORA: agriculture research (up to 3500
journals, up to 3400 books, up to 20 information
resources, 2700 registered institutions)
www.aginternetwork.org/en/
• OARE: environment research (up to 5300
journals, up to 11100 books, up to 40 other
information resources, 2600 registered
institutions) www.unep.org/oare/en/
• ARDI: development and innovation research (up
to 2000 journals, up to 5000 books, 323
registered institutions) www.wipo.int/ardi/en/
updated 2014 06
To access the HINARI website, enter the
URL http://www.who.int/hinari/
Choose a language option.
This tutorial will be in English.
Your institution must be registered for you to gain
access to the full-text electronic resources.
Click on the Register for HINARI link to access
the step-by-step guide – to see if your institution
is registered or must complete this process.
Note: for detailed information on eligibility and
registration, go to R4L Eligible countries
www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/en
This is one of the pages of the 'Institution profile' that you will
not be able to view.
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 .
Login to the HINARI website by clicking on
LOGIN.
Note: If you do not log in into HINARI, you
will not get access to the full text articles.
Workshop User Name/
Password
User Name:
Password:
Note: A training username and password only
will be ‘activated’ for the workshop. You can use
your institution’s username and password.
Either one should never be published online.
Authentication System Access Problems
April 2015 (being resolved)
• American Psychological Association
• Australasian Medical Publishing Company
• Australasian Medical Publishing Company
• EndNoteWeb
• Lancet
• myNCBI
• Pharmaceutical Press/Medicines Complete (BNF)
• Royal Society of Chemistry (Merck Index Online-only)
• Thieme
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.
Since the migration to a new authentication server (Jan. 2014),
we strongly recommend use of Chrome or Mozilla or Safari. If
you use Internet Explorer, you will need to login twice.
If you are using Internet Explorer,
repeat the Login process on this 2nd
page and you will be redirected to
the HINARI Contents page.
Further Login Instructions
• All the R4L programmes, use the same login page. If
the computer previously was logged into another
programme and you login into HINARI, you will not get
access.
• In order to work efficiently, the browser needs configure
to “Clear the Cache memory”.
• See Basic Course Module 3 Appendix for Google
Chrome and Firefox examples – to Clear the Cache
memory and also Configure Clearing the Cache memory
• We strongly recommend not to bookmark this
connection page. It is always preferable to link to the
HINARI portal itself which will have the right link –
especially if there are any future changes to the
authentication server.
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
If you fail to use the Login button from the
HINARI Website, you will have a second option
on the Content page.
Note the key access choices – Journals
collection, Books collection, and, on the
horizontal frame, Subjects, Languages,
Publishers and a link to the Training Materials.
Also note the Register for HINARI link to a stepby-step guide plus other information.
In this example, we opened the Browse
Subject ‘HIV/AIDS’ listing (without the proper
login) and clicked on the All Items tab. Of the
initial 13 journals titles listed, only 3 are Full
access to this content for everyone while
there are 12 that are not accessible You
must log in to access HINARI to have full
access to this content.
Journals can be accessed by title from an
alphabetical list.
For this exercise, click on ‘J’ 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.
Displayed is the ‘J’ journal list. Click on the title for JAMA: Journal of the
American Medical Association. The default is the Accessible Content page.
This and the All Items displays will be discussed in subsequent slides.
Note that the ‘years of volumes’ available are listed after the journal title.
Note the pages displayed drop down menu
(25, 100, 500 and all options) and the options
to display different pages.
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.
Another window will open at the
journal publisher’s website usually
with access to the Archive page.
Open the Current Issue.
The Current Issue now is displayed
with various options for viewing
including [Full Text] or [PDF] formats
Click on the 1st article..
The HTML version now is displayed
which can include links to sections of
the article, bibliographic citations or
related articles. Note the other
options for viewing the article.
Now displayed is the PDF or Portable Document
Format - 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 freely available Adobe Acrobat program:
www.adobe.com
The Content page contains a
View complete list of journals
option (also for Books collection).
Click on the link for journals.
A page opens with all the journal
titles listed in alphabetical order.
This list does not have hypertext
links to the journals
Note again the Display Option drop
down list and ability to move from one
page of the A book titles list to another.
A helpful hint for searching within any letter of
the Journals content A-Z list is to click on Control
F. This opens a new search box. In the S
listing, we have put surgery into the box and
there are 19 titles with this word. To view other
titles, use the scroll up and down buttons.