Research4Life has four programmes which give access to important scientific information for researchers and students in the developing world. In this presentation the focus is on medicine.

1. Access to leading research in the
developing world
Global Week
Gothenburg
November 14th 2013

2. Access to leading research
in the developing world
Why are we here?
What can you access?
Who gets access?
How do you get access?
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3. Why are we here?
Why am I here?

4. Why are we here?
Why are librarians from Nepal here?
Mrs Gita Giri Thapa, Tribhuvan University, Institute of Medicine ,
Nursing Campus Maharajgunj
Mrs Neela Malla Pradhan, Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital
Mr. Macha Bhai Shakya, Patan Academy of Health Sciences / Patan
Hospital
Mr. Lal Bahadur Chouhan, Tribhuvan University Central Library

5. Why are we here?
Awareness is low
When you think of a library is this what you have in mind?

6. Why are we here?
Why are you here?

7. What can you access?
Survey done in 2010 –
comparing access to scientific journals in Africa and Europe
Of the titles that African users listed as inaccessible to them, 72%
were actually readily accessible through their libraries’ online
subscriptions.
On average, 79% of the top-ranked international journals were available
online, free at the point of use, at the four case study universities.
Harle, J., 2010. The Association of Commonwealth Universities: Growing Knowledge: Access to
Research in East and Southern African Universities, Association of Commonwealth
Universities.
https://www.acu.ac.uk/focus-areas/arcadia-growing-knowledge

8. What can you access?
Taking the top 20 journals in key areas, as measured by
journal impact factor, and comparing these against
current journal collections (2009 subscriptions).

9. What can you access?
Research4Life
Four programmes – HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI –
Provides developing countries with free or low cost access to
academic content online.
• Online access to over 30,000 peer-reviewed international
scientific journals, books, and databases
• Full-text articles which can be downloaded for saving,
printing or reading on screen
http://www.research4life.org

10. Who gets access?

11. Who gets access?
EIFL partner countries (orange)
http://www.eifl.net/
Nepal

12. Who gets access?
INASP Partner countries
http://www.inasp.info/

13. Where is that article?
I read it few days ago, few weeks ago, about
a year ago
I read it in one of journals from this library.
**************
I need some fulltext articles from journal for
my thesis preparation.
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I want some recent literature on management
of peptic ulcer
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I want to re-read the same article.
I want to include it in my references.
I want my colleague to read it.

14. How to locate articles?
PubMed (www.pubmed.com) or www.nlm.nih.gov
Google (www.google.com)
Google scholar
Other search engines

15. Database
HINARI (www.who.int/hinari)
DOAJ (www.doaj.org)
Free fulltext articles (www.freefulltextarticles.com)

16. • More than 100 countries, territories and areas
• HINARI: health research (12700 journals, 24900 books
and 70 information resources, 5400 registered
institutions) www.who.int/hinari/en/
• AGORA: agriculture research (3500 journals, 3400
books, 20 information resources, 2300 registered
institutions) www.aginternetwork.org/en/
• OARE: environment research (5300 journals, 11100
books, 40 other information resources, 2500 registered
institutions) www.unep.org/oare/en/
• ARDI: development and innovation research (2000
journals, 5000 books, 80 registered institutions)
www.wipo.int/ardi/en/
updated 2013 08

17. 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 relation to Millennium
Development Goals of 2015

18. Eligibility
• Institutions in countries with GNI (gross national
income) per capita below $1600 or HDI (human
development index) less than 0.63 are eligible for
free access (Group A) (Nepal 0.463, US$ 735)
• Institutions in countries with GNI per capita
between $1601-$5000 or HDI less than 0.67 pay
a fee of $1000 per year (Band 2/Group B)
• Some publishers opt out of this option and do not
allow access to their journals
• Free/Low cost to >100 countries/territories

19. Eligibility (2)
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Eligible categories of institutions are:
national universities
research institutes
professional schools (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public
health, dentistry)
teaching hospitals
government: ministries and agencies
national medical libraries
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locally based non-governmental agencies
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All permanent and visiting faculty, staff members and students
are entitled to access and can obtain the institutional User
Name and Password.

20. Partners
 Major Publishers
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Elsevier Science
Springer
Wiley-Blackwell
Sage
Taylor & Francis
Lippincott/Williams &
Wilkins
BioOne
Oxford University Press
Nature Publishing
Other science/technical/
medical publishers
 Program Partners
 World Health Organization – WHO
 Yale University Library
 International Association of Scientific,
Technical and Medical Publishers – STM
 Microsoft
 Food and Agriculture Org. – FAO
 United Nations Environment Programme –
UNEP
 Information Training and Outreach Centre
for Africa
 National Library of Medicine
 Mann Library/Cornell University
 Librarians Without Borders/MLA
http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/partners.php

21. Common Features of R4L Resources
1. Fulltext can be achieved via OPTIONS:
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Searching by Journal title
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Subject Access Options
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Searching by Language
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Publisher Access
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Titles by Publisher
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Books Access
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Searching for Books

23. You need to insert our HINARI User ID and
Password in the Login box and click on the
Login button.
xxxxx
Remember
password
Note: In Opera Browser, Login (password) can
be done by pressing Ctrl and enter tabs.

24. Journal Access Options

25. Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL)
www.nepjol.info
NepJOL is a service to provide access to Nepalese
published research, and increase worldwide
knowledge of indigenous scholarship.
There are now 92 journals listed on NepJOL.

26. NepJOL (continued)
Objectives:
– To promote the awareness and use of Nepalpublished journals in all disciplines by
providing access to TOCs, abstracts and full
text online
– To strengthen local publications
– To provide a range of online full text access
models for journals, from complete open access
to subscription access, with hybrid models of
restricted access

27. Key Challenges for Nepal
– Power
– Political instability
– Irregular publication of journals
– Lack of computer literacy

28. Additional Links and Resources
in HINARI
1. Scopus
2. Medline
3. Reference sources – e.g. BMJ Best Practice,
Cochrane Library, Oxford Textbook of Medicine,
EBM Guideline so on.
4. Free Collections – Bioline International, BioMed
Central, DOAJ, Free Books for Doctors, Free
Medical Journal, Hirewire Free to Developing
Economics, National Academies Press so on.

29. Nepal:
R4L registration
2002-2013
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AGRO
OARE
HINARI

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Nepal:
Log in to R4L
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31. Thank you!
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32. Explore
http://www.research4life.org/programmes/
AGORA - Agriculture
HINARI - Medicine
OARE - Environment
ARDI – Innovation
EIFL - http://www.eifl.net/
INASP - http://www.inasp.info/