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HINARI
Through the HINARI Access to Research Initiative, developed by the World Health Organization and its partners,
public institutions in developing nations receive free online access to major journals in the biomedical and related
social science fields. Among founding publishers involved since HINARI launched, Elsevier is its largest contributor of content.
www.who.int/hinari
hinari@who.int
Dr. Mohamed Jalloh (standing) trains coordinators of West African
blindness prevention programs in the use of HINARI in 2006.
When I first discovered HINARI in 2003, I was in my last year of general medicine training at the Faculty of Medicine at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD) in Sénégal and was preparing my dissertation on the clinical aspects of prostate cancer in Sénégal. The most difficult part of conducting the study for my dissertation was getting access to medical references, because my fellow researchers and I had to order these references, the price of the articles was expensive and the articles arrived only after delays.
With our use of HINARI, however, starting in 2003, everything became wonderful. We were able easily and quickly to access peer-reviewed articles and could download references we needed. And that is what I did for many of my references. HINARI has brought a great advantage in terms of saving money while making available high-quality peer-reviewed articles. In my current Urology Department, we train many medical students who prepare their dissertations and I train them in the use of HINARI (as well as PubMed) and assist them in finding references.
At the end of 2006, I was preparing my dissertation for the end of my residency training in urology at the UCAD Faculty of Medicine. The topic was “Radical Prostatectomy: Short-Term Outcomes in My Department.” And I must say that HINARI was once again very helpful. Here are the two most important reasons:
- HINARI provided easy and quick access to references. It took less than one hour to download references from HINARI.
- The most important journals in urology were available in HINARI. These included the Elsevier-published titles The Journal of Urology and Urology.
“With our use of HINARI, however, starting in 2003, everything became wonderful. We were able easily and quickly to access peer-reviewed articles and could download references we needed.“
Of the references I used for my dissertation in 2006, 13 of the 15 cited publications were available through HINARI. Almost all the journal articles I cited came from HINARI journals. The remaining references are mainly from books and encyclopaedias. I was so happy, and I still express my gratefulness to all those who made this happen.
— Dr. Mohamed Jalloh, MD, Consultant Urologist,
FWACS Department of Urology, Hôpital Général de
Grand Yoff, Dakar, Sénégal
www.hoggy.sn
- Founded in 2001
- 3,336 institutions in 108 countries are participating
- More than 130 publishers are participating
- Of the over 4,210 HINARI journals, 33% are from Elsevier
- In number of fulltext downloads, HINARI ranks among the top 10 institutional users of ScienceDirect
- The Lancet ranks as the most downloaded Elsevier journal
Gueye, S., Jalloh, M., Labou, I., Niang, L., Kane, R., & Ndoye, M. (2004). Profil clinique du cancer de la prostate au Sénégal. African Journal of Urology, 10 (3), 203–207.
Jalloh, M. (2004). Caractéristiques cliniques du cancer de la prostate au Sénégal. Doctoral dissertation, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar.
Jalloh, M. (2006). Prostatectomie radicale: Evaluation à 3 mois au service d'urologie de l'Hôpital Général de Grand Yoff; A propos de 7 cas. Unpublished manuscript for certificate of special studies in urology, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar.
