Question

Explain how you will find articles on any nursing issues from HINARI database using a computer at your school internet laboratory.

Answer 1

Answer. HINARI is a software of Who and it deals with the research in health care. It's access was provided free to the developing countries, so as to get health literature. It contains more than 15,000 e-journals and up to 60,000 online books. All this study material is available on HINARI. There are many othe programs also but HINARI deals with health only. It's access is provided to all the universities, educational institutions, schools, hospitals and other health care organisations

HINARI has a big search database showing Google Scholar and PubMed, to search various topics and articles. It has Advanced Search’ option where by typing language, human or animal, gender, type of article and age, will help in limiting the search areas for the ease. This is a new feature of HINARI.

With Google Scholar or PubMed, the keywords search is required, and it will show you the full relatsd articles or papers or research work on it. Suitable options can be clicked, downloaded and saved on the respective computers.

All e-jounals listed alphabetically are there, which can be easily searched by typing the keywords.

In any case, if any link does not open then, ‘Access Problems and Solutions’ link is there. It will help in resolving the issue.