BMJ  2007;335 (11 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.39300.450150.BD

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The only thing I don't like about HINARI is its name. HINARI stands for Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative. I can't tell from the name that it is about meeting the information needs of researchers in developing countries. Notwithstanding its name HINARI is a success story that surprised even its organisers (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39293.711088.DE). It has inspired the world's leading publishers, the World Health Organization, Microsoft, Yale University, two individuals (Maurice Long and Barbara Aronson), and others to form a network in 113 poor countries and 2500 institutions that provides free access in these countries to 80% of Medline articles. Interestingly there are no contracts between publishers and WHO, and HINARI's diffuse network thrives on goodwill. HINARI's critics will list predictable shortcomings—access to information is not everything; information needs to be relevant to local needs; most Medline articles are not about the developing world, and so on. But health . . . [Full text of this article]

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