WHO-HINARI project expands

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

>From http://www.healthinternetwork.net

24 May 2002 News

HINARI welcomes 17 new publishers

More than 2000 journals, databases, compendia and other publications now
accessible online

Health InterNetwork

The Health InterNetwork was created to bridge the "digital divide" in
health, ensuring that relevant information - and the technologies to
deliver it - are widely available and effectively used by health
personnel:  professionals, researchers and scientists, and policy makers.

Launched by the Secretary General of the United Nations in September 2000
and led by the World Health Organization, the Health InterNetwork has
brought together public and private partners under the principle of
ensuring equitable access to health information. The core elements of the
project are content, Internet connectivity and capacity building.

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative

As the first phase of making vital health content available, the Health
InterNetwork provides here a vast library of the latest and best
information on public health: nearly 1,500 scientific publications, one of
the world's largest collections of biomedical literature.

This collection is available through the efforts of WHO together with the
6 biggest biomedical publishers: Blackwell, Elsevier Science, the Harcourt
Worldwide STM Group, Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science,
Springer Verlag and John Wiley. It has been described by WHO
Director-General Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland as "perhaps the biggest step
ever taken towards reducing the health information gap between rich and
poor countries."

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