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(Circulation Research. 2007;101:851.)
© 2007 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorials

Access to American Heart Association Journal Content Free to Developing Countries Through HINARI

Kara Hansell Keehan, Jonathan Schultz

From Circulation Research, Journal of the American Heart Association.

Correspondence to Kara Hansell Keehan, Managing Editor, Circulation Research, 2700 Lighthouse Point East, Suite 230, Baltimore, MD 21224. E-mail kara.hansell.keehan@circresearch.com

Key Words: Circulation Research • HINARI • free access • poverty • basic research

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Circulation Research is one of the more than 230 journals participating in a global theme issue on poverty and human development, conceptualized and coordinated by the Council of Science Editors (CSE).¹ For our part in this initiative, we would like to highlight the participation of the five American Heart Association Journals—Circulation Research, Circulation, ATVB, Stroke, and Hypertension—in the HINARI project, the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (http://www.who.int/hinari/en/), sponsored and administered by the World Health Organization. Since its start in 2002, HINARI has provided free or low-cost online access to major medical and biomedical journals for institutions in developing countries. The types of institutions eligible for access to HINARI are universities, research institutes, professional schools (medicine, nursing, pharmacology, public health, dentistry), teaching hospitals, government offices, and national medical libraries.² In a recent statement released by the HINARI project,³ the WHO celebrated a milestone with the 2500th institution registering for HINARI access. This success, and the generosity of the participating publishers and medical societies, has ensured that the HINARI project will continue to at least 2015, to match the objectives of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals.²

The World Health Organization has designated developing nations as either Level 1 or Level 2 countries, using Gross National Product (GNP) per capita as a standardized metric. Developing nations with GNP per capita below $1000 are deemed Level 1 and are therefore eligible for free institutional access to HINARI content. Developing nations with GNP per capita from . . . [Full Text of this Article]