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Improving Online Access to Medical Information for Low-Income Countries
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Over the past two years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has worked with publishing partners (including the Journal) to improve online access to scientific resources as a way of supporting health professionals, medical researchers, and academics in developing countries. WHO helped to create the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI, http://www.healthinternetwork.org), which offers health and medical institutions in 69 of the world's lowest-income countries free online access to a large library of important international journals. This initiative has been expanded to include an additional 44 countries that qualify for access to the journals at a very low price. . . .
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Metadata
- Authors
- Aronson, B.
- Affiliations
- World Health Organization (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Aronson, Barbara
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2004-03-04
- Volume
- 350
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 966-968
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W2022202533
- Cited by
- 132
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 36.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Health and Surgery
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- HINARI, low-income countries, open access to scientific literature, World Health Organization, journal subscription costs
- MeSH terms
- Computer User Training, Developing Countries, Health Services Accessibility, Income, Information Services, International Cooperation, Publishing, Internet
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