A definite win this week for the staff of Goroka General Hospital.
We now have Internet access available to Hospital staff.
Below is Dr. William Mol giving the thumbs up …
Hospital staff now have access to the HINARI subscription service. A short blurb follows:
The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries.
HINARI was launched in January 2002, with some 1500 journals from 6 major publishers: Blackwell, Elsevier Science, the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group, Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science, Springer Verlag and John Wiley, following the principles in a Statement of Intent signed in July 2001. Twenty-two additional publishers joined in May 2002, bringing the total number of journals to over 2000. Since that time, the numbers of participating publishers and of journals and other full-text resources has grown continuously. Today more than 70 publishers are offering their content in HINARI and others will soon be joining the programme. An evaluation is in progress which will determine the long term future of HINARI.
Note: My understanding is that both Internet access and access to the HINARI service is a first for Hospital staff in Papua New Guinea.
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