Donation Programs for Books, Journals and Media (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Handbook for Telecenter Staffs (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
HealthConnect International: Bridging the Health Information Gap (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Healthlink Worldwide (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
* Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Spanish)
INASP: Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Licensing Digital Information: Developing Nations Initiatives (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Partnerships In Health Information (PHI) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Resource Centre Manual, 2nd edition (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Source: Support for Resource Centres (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Equator Network (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site links to organizations that supply printed materials specifically for health related organizations. It is maintained by the Health Sciences Library, University of Buffalo, U.S. http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/dokuwiki/hslwiki/doku.php?id=book_donations
The Handbook provides an overview of the numerous aspects that are involved in the planning and daily functioning of a telecentre for community development. It is a self-learning tool and management guide and also serves as a reference resource for additional educational materials. The site is organized into ten pdf file modules. Although not specifically geared toward telehealth sites, the handbook contains considerable useful information. It is maintained by Cornell University, U.S. http://ip.cals.cornell.edu/commdev/handbook.cfm
The organization is a not-for-profit consulting group whose mission is to enhance health improvement programs in low-resource settings through the cost-effective application of information and communications technologies (ICTs). The site contains a summary of the organization’s services and ‘resources’ - links to a Learning Resource Center toolkit, listing of e-health conferences and training plus a learning resource ‘network’ and ‘e-health in practice’ newsletter. http://www.healthconnect-intl.org/
Healthlink Worldwide provides technical assistance to resource centres and publishers of health learning materials in developing countries. http://www.healthlink.org.uk
HINARI provides access to over 2800 scientific publications for developing and transitional countries. The participating publishers include Blackwell, BMJ, Elsevier Science, Harcourt, JAMA, Kluwer, Nature Publishing, New England Journal of Medicine, Oxford University Press, Springer Verlag, Taylor & Francis and John Wiley. The access is by journal title, subject and language or link to the participating publishers' websites. Also, there is access to various publishers' reference sources including the Cochrane Library, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, etc. The site is accessible in English, French and Spanish. Institutions are required to register (see: http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/registration.php or email . For a guide using PubMed to search for journal articles, see http://www.who.int/hinari/training/HINARI%20Guide%20to%20Using%20PubMed.pdf. The site includes links to other sources of free access to ejournals and regional ejournal indexes. http://www.who.int/hinari/en/
PERI is an INASP sponsored programme of support for information production, access and dissemination for research partners in developing and transitional countries utilising new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). It provides a range of capacity building services, including access for developing countries to a wide range of major scientific, technical, medical, social science and humanities materials. The site describes the programme, and details of materials available to eligible countries and is available in English, French, Spanish and Russian. Institutions are required to register for access. http://www.inasp.info/file/5f65fc9017860338882881402dc594e4/perii.html
The project is a Food and Agriculture Organization (UN) e-learning initiative to train individuals and support institutions and networks in the effective management of agricultural information.  Available free via the Internet or as CD-ROMs, the project consists of a series of self-paced, distance learning modules on the management of electronic resources, building electronic communities, investing in information management and digitization and digital libraries. Almost all of the material is applicable to information management in the health sector. http://www.imarkgroup.org/index_en.asp
The site identifies programmes that bring high quality, peer-reviewed sciences journals to developing and transitional countries for free or minimal cost. It is organized alphabetically by publisher/organization with links to information on access procedures. The site is maintained by Yale University Library, U.S. http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/develop.shtml
This website describes the organization and activities of Phi. The organisation creates partnerships and twinning between health science information services in the "North" and developing countries. It works to build health information services in developing countries through professional development, information technology and co-operative initiatives. http://www.partnershipsinhealthinformation.org.uk/
This new edition was launched in October 2003. It contains detailed information on how to set up and manage a health 'resource centre.' Topics covered include: planning, management and finance, space and furniture, collection development, organizing information and computer/database usage. The content is available in PDF format (258 pages, 3.6MB) at the URL below. The site is maintained by Healthlink Worldwide, UK. http://www.healthlink.org.uk/PDFs/resource-centre-manual.pdf
This Source project has been developed to offer support and guidance to resource centre practitioners working in primary health care and disability sectors in developing countries. By broad subject categories, the site outlines how to develop and maintain a resource centre including the use of ICT and other Internet resources. http://www.asksource.info/support.htm
Launched in the fall of 2007, the ‘Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research’ Network is an initiative that seeks to improve the quality of scientific publications by promoting transparent and accurate reporting of health research. The site contains a resource centre for authors, journal editors and peer reviewers and reporting guideline developers plus, from early 2008, educational material and training modules for these groups. The Network is an international group of experts on health research methodology, statistics and reporting. http://www.equator-network.org/
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