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Page Contents
Donation Programs for Books, Journals and MediaFreeForAll
Handbook for Telecenter Staffs
Healthlink Worldlwide
Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiaitve (HINARI)
INASP: Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Information Management Resource Kit
Libraries for All: How to Start and Run a Small Library
Licensing Digital Information: Developing Nations Initiatives
Partnerships in Health Information (PHI)
Resource Centre Manual
Source: Support for Resource Centres
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Donation
Programs for Books, Journals and Media (Focus
on Low-Income Countries)
This site links to organizations that supply printed
materials specifically for health related organizations.
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/donationprograms.html
FreeForAll (Focus on
Low-Income Countries) (Spanish)
FreeForAll is an international collaboration of libraries
whose mission is to provide underserved nations with health
science journal articles for free. The site contains
instructions for registration in English and Spanish.
http://www.geocities.com/wfb_2/freeforall.html
Handbook for
Telecenter Staffs (Focus on Low-Income
Countries)
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
Healthlink Worldwide (Focus on
Low-Income Countries)
Healthlink Worldwide provides technical assistance to
resource centres and publishers of health learning materials
in developing countries. http://www.healthlink.org.uk
* Health InterNetwork Access to Research
Initiative (HINARI) (Focus on Low-Income
Countries) (French, Spanish)
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/
INASP: Programme for
the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI)
(Focus on Low-Income Countries)
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/104/peri.html
Information
Management Resource Kit (Focus on Low-Income
Countries)
The project is a Food and Agricultue Organization (U.S.)
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/
Libraries
for All: How to Start and Run a Small Library (Focus
on Low-Income Countries)
The site contains a manual with practical, step-by-step
instructions for creating and managing a successful library.
It was reviewed and field tested by a panel of international
librarians and development workers. The site is maintained by
the World Library Partnership with funding from UNESCO.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/highlights/library_run_020299.html
Licensing
Digital Information: Developing Nations
Initiatives (Focus on Low-Income
Countries)
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
Partnerships In Health
Information (PHI) (Focus on Low-Income
Countries)
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.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/hosted/phi/
Resource
Centre Manual, 2nd edition (Focus on
Low-Income Countries)
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
Source: Support
for Resource Centres (Focus on Low-Income
Countries)
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
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Updated: 09 April 2008