Last Updated:17 January 2012

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The HINARI Programme was set up in 2002 by the World Health Organization (WHO) together with major publishers and it enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. More than 8,000 information resources (in 30 different languages) are now available to health institutions in 105 countries, areas and territories benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improve world health.

This training could be completed in as little as 30-minutes (if you only watch the five videos), however, we recommend you take some extra time to reinforce your learning by completing the optional exercises and self-assessment multiple choice quizzes. In order to complete the optional exercises, you will need to know your institution's HINARI username and password. We recommend you acquire this information prior to participating in this training; however, it is only required for the optional exercises - all videos, audio files, text transcriptions, quizzes, and other instruction will be available to you even if you do not know your HINARI username and password.

The specific goals of this training are to teach students, faculty, residents, trainees, and staff 1) what the HINARI Programme is, 2) how to find the full text of an article in HINARI, 3) how to search PubMed through HINARI, 4) how to conduct advanced PubMed searching, and 5) how to solve resource access problems.

For, more information about this training, including how to contact us, please see our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). A link to our FAQs, feedback form, and email list signup form are all available at the top of every page.

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