Organization:HINARI

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Hinari
Hinari official logo
Formation2001 (2001)
FoundersBlackwell, Elsevier, the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group, Wolters Kluwer, Springer Verlag and John Wiley
TypeNon-profit
PurposeTo provide free or low-cost online access to academic and professional knowledge
HeadquartersGeneva, Switzerland
Fields
  • Biomedicine
  • Health
Parent organization
World Health Organization
Websitehttps://www.research4life.org/about/programs/hinari/

Hinari is one of five programs within Research4Life, a public-private partnership which provides eligible institutions in lower income countries with free or low-cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.[1]

Hinari is dedicated to biomedical and health knowledge. It was set up by the World Health Organization in collaboration with major publishers and was the first of the Research4Life programs.

The other four Research4Life programs are each dedicated to different subject areas: AGORA focuses on agriculture, OARE focuses on the environment, ARDI focuses on applied science and technology, and GOALI focuses on law and justice.

History

In response to a call by the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and to a statement issued by Gro Harlem Brundtland the then Director General World Health Organization, Hinari was launched in July 2001 with a statement of intent from six major publishers: Blackwell Publishing, Elsevier, the Harcourt, Wolters Kluwer, Springer Science+Business Media, and John Wiley & Sons.[2]

The program opened for use in January 2002 with around 1,500 journals from the initial six publishers.[3]

Hinari is an acronym of the program's original name, the Health Inter-Network Access to Research Initiative,[4] and the use of the full name was later abandoned.

Program

As of 2026, eligible non-profit institutions can access thousands of journals, books and databases from approximately 200 publisher partners through the Hinari program [5]. Access is through a special version of the PubMed (Medline) platform and other subject indexes.

Eligibility for access

Institutions

Institutions eligible to access the program are: national universities, professional schools (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, dentistry), research institutes, teaching hospitals and healthcare centers, government offices, national medical libraries and local non-governmental organizations.[6]

Countries

The eligible countries are based on five factors:

  • Total GNI (World Bank figures)
  • GNI per capita (World Bank figures)
  • United Nations Least Developed Country (LDCs) List
  • Human Development Index (HDI).[7]
  • Healthy Life Expectancy (HALE) (World Health Organization figures)

In 2007, users and members of eligible institutions in 113 countries had access.[4] In 2026, the number of eligible countries, areas and territories stood at more than 120.

Some large, lower income countries including India and China are excluded by the program because their total GNI exceeds US$1 trillion.[4][3][7]

Response

In an article published in PLOS Medicine in 2007, authors argued that Hinari's low-cost model is still too high for many institutions and journals with top Impact Factors are not included in some countries.[8]

Hinari received the high honor of the Medical Library Association's 2015 Louise Darling Medal for Collection Development in the Health Sciences.[9]

  • TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library)
  • AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture)
  • OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment)
  • ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation)
  • GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information)

References

  1. ↑ "Our commitment to universal access to medical research § About Research4Life". The Lancet. http://www.thelancet.com/hinari. Retrieved 2015-04-05. 
  2. ↑ "Publishers' Statement of Intent". HINARI. London: World Health Organization. 2001-07-09. https://www.who.int/hinari/statementofintent/en/. Retrieved 2015-04-05. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harris, Siân (June–July 2007). "Training increases HINARI and AGORA benefits". Research Information (Europa Science). http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=136. Retrieved 2015-04-05. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sarin, R (2007). "Denying open access to published health-care research: WHO has the password?". Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics 3 (3): 133–4. doi:10.4103/0973-1482.37403. PMID 18079573. 
  5. ↑ "Partners § Publishers". HINARI. World Health Organization. http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/partners.php?category=publisher. Retrieved 2015-04-05. 
  6. ↑ "Eligibility". HINARI. World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/en/index.html. Retrieved 2016-06-05. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Criteria by which countries, areas, or territories are categorized". HINARI. World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/Details_eligibility/en/. Retrieved 2015-04-05. 
  8. ↑ Villafuerte-Gálvez, Javier; Curioso, Walter H; Gayoso, Oscar (2007). "Biomedical Journals and Global Poverty: Is HINARI a Step Backwards?". PLOS Medicine 4 (6): 220. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040220. PMID 17594171. 
  9. ↑ Hickner, Andy (17 March 2015). "MLA awards 2015 Louise Darling Medal to Yale partner HINARI". http://library.medicine.yale.edu/blog/mla-awards-2015-louise-darling-medal-yale-partner-hinari. 



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