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CABI is pleased to announce that we have recently added our human health and nutrition sub-set of CAB eBooks to The Programme for Access to Health Research (HINARI). |
HINARI provides free or very low cost online access to a large collection of database, book and journal content in health and biomedical sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. Including CABI’s eBooks enables our content to be accessed by national institutes, universities and research organisations free of charge in over 100 developing countries.
Dr. Matthew Jukes of Harvard University, co-author of “School Health, Nutrition and Education for all", a 2008 CABI book that will be included in HINARI, said “Our book has proved useful for many people to advocate for and to design school health and nutrition programs in their countries. But the countries with most need for information are also those with least access - this initiative will help address this inequity."
The move to include our books has also been a development important to future authors of CABI’s books, Dr. Julia Hussein, Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen and co-editor of the forthcoming CABI book “Maternal and Perinatal Health in Developing Countries” said of the initiative: “Sharing knowledge is a crucial means of promoting the achievement of health goals such as improvements in maternal and child health. By making access to book material open or available at low cost in the poorest countries through HINARI, CABI will be contributing to global efforts to strengthen capacity and create know-how for effective implementation of health related interventions.”
The development should help ensure that CABI’s content can be accessed where it is needed most, and we look forward to working with our authors and HINARI to make health research and information available.
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About HINARI: Research4Life is the collective name for three public-private partnerships which seek to help achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals by providing the developing world with access to critical scientific research. Beginning in 2002, the three initiatives, HINARI Access to Research in Health programme, Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) and Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), have given researchers at 5,000 institutions in 109 developing world countries free or low cost access to over 8,100 journals provided by the world’s leading science publishers.
Research4Life is a public private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, Cornell and Yale Universities and more than 150 science publishers. Together with technology partner Microsoft, the partnership’s goal is to help attain six of the UN’s eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, reducing the scientific knowledge gap between industrialized countries and the developing world.