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Improving Online Access to Medical Information for Low-Income Countries
Abstract
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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“Some participating institutions are using their HINARI eligibility to leverage funding for equipment and Internet access from their governments and from international donors (Aronson 2004).”
From Participation in the global knowledge commons: Challenges and opportunities for research dissemination in developing countries (2005) · cites this paper as Aronson 2004
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“Early usage statistics indicate that at least document downloading has been steadily increasing (Aronson 2004).”
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“However, access to relevant health information in a timely fashion is already reducing the sense of professional isolation felt by many researchers in developing countries (Aronson 2004).”
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“Ethiopia, Nepal, Sudan, and Vietnam, which are all eligible for free access, have some of the highest number of registered institutions (Aronson 2003).”
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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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