Hinari
The Hinari programme, established by WHO together with major publishers, as a part of Research4Life programmes in order to provide the eligible health and medical institutions from low and middle-income countries with free of charge or low-cost online access to the full-text of priced health and biomedical sciences publications from the leading international scientific journals, books, databases. More than 80,000 journals, e-books and other information resources.
Research4life
Research4Life is the collective name for the five programmes: Research in Health (Hinari), Research in Agriculture (AGORA), Research in the Environment (OARE), Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) and Research for Global Justice (GOALI). It provides developing countries with free or low-cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online. Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, United Nations Environment Programme, World Intellectual Property Organization, Cornell and Yale Universities and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers.
Global Index Medicus (GIM)
The Global Index Medicus increases access to information and scientific evidence on health, particularly in developing regions. The library was developed by WHO headquarters and BIREME of the Pan American Health Organization, in collaboration with WHO regional offices as part of WHO's strategy for knowledge management and sharing in global public health.
Through the GIM portal, users worldwide can search across more than 1.7 million bibliographic and full text records from low- and middle-income countries