HINARI Access to Research in Health programme

HINARI Short Course Exercises

From the HINARI website, select the LOGIN hyperlink.

This will take you to the HINARI login page.

When the login page opens, enter your institutional HINARI user IDandpassword into the login boxes and then select the Sign On button to access the HINARI site.

Institution:

HINARI User Name:

Password:

Logging in to HINARI will provide authentication to access full text articles and other resources via the project’s website. If you do not register using your institution’s User Name and Password, you will not have access to the full text articles only the citations.

Exercise 1

Background and Do’s and Don’ts – True/False Answers

Users can download or print 50% of the articles from a journal issue.

true___ false___

Faculty and staff can be given the institutional User Name and Password.

true___ false___

Students can be given the institutional User Name and Password.

true___ false___

Institutional users can access HINARI while outside the country.

true___ false___

HINARI articles can be used for instructional course reserve.

true___ false___

HINARI articles can be distributed to other institutions or organizations.

true___ false___

Exercise 2

Search Techniques

Go to Google ( on the Internet

In the Search box, enter the keyword search terms Avian Flu

How many article citations have been identified?

Enter Avian Flu AND Asia into Search box

How many article citations have been identified?

Enter Avian Flu AND Asia AND treatment into the Search box.

How many article citations have been identified?

Complete a Google search with your own keyword terms. If necessary use the AND term to limit your search.

What keyword search did you complete and how many article citations were identified?

Repeat this search in Google Scholar ( ), note the number of citations and compare this to results in the Google search.

Note the different types of material listed in the two search engines.

Exercise 3

Locating specific journals in HINARI website

From the HINARIFull-text journals, databases and other resources page, go to Find journals by title

Find The Lancet by clicking on L.

Select it from the list by clicking on the title.

The Lancet will open on the publisher’s website.

What is the date and volume and issue number of the latest issue?

Selectan article from the latest issue available to you and open the full text.

What the title and author of the full-text article you viewed?

Why you were interested in this article and who at your institution could use the information?

When you have finished, return to the HINARIFull-text journals, databases and other resources page.

Exercise 4

Finding journal titles by subject in HINARI website

From the HINARI Full-text journals, databases and other resources page, go to Find journals by subject.

Find Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases by clicking on the drop down menu.

Select Trends in Parasitology from the list by following the hyperlinked title.

Trends in Parasitology will open on the publisher’s website.

Select an article from the latest issue available to you and open the full text.

What is the title and author of the full-text article you viewed?

Go back to the drop down menu of subjects. Choose a subject that is of interest to you.

Which subject did you choose? Name three journals that are of particular interest to you.

When you have finished, return to the HINARIFull-text journals, databases and other resources page.

Exercise 5

Searching across all journals in a Partner Publishers’ website

From the initial HINARI Full-text journals, databases and other resources page, go to Partner publisher services and from the drop down menu select click on Elsevier Science – Science Direct.

Enter the search term Malaria in the Quick Search (title, abstract, keyword) box and click on Go or hit the enter key.

What is the result (# of citations) from this search?

In what formats is the information accessible?

Go back to the Quick Search, add the words ‘AND pregnancy’, then click on Go or hit the enter key.

What is the result (# of citations) from this search?

What information is included in each citation?

How many citations are on the initial page?

Return to the initial Science Direct page by clicking on the “Home” button on the toolbar at the top of the page.

Exercise 6

Finding a journal using title list and refining a search

From the Browse by title list, click on the J and go to the Journal of Infection table of contents page.

Enter the term HIV into the QuickSearch query box and click on Go or hit the enter key.

What is the result (# of citations) from this search?

Would some of these articles be of use at your institution?

To further refine a search, enter the term HIV AND Pregnancy into the QuickSearch query box and click on Go.

What is the result (# of citations) from this more precise search?

Would some of these articles be of use at your institution?

Return to the initial Science Direct page by clicking on the “Home” button on the toolbar at the top of the page.

Exercise 7

Locating a listing of the journals free to developing-economies in HighWire Press

From the initial HINARI Full-text journals, databases and other resources page, go to theOther Free Collections drop down menu and click on HighwireFree to Developing Economies or type in or copy/paste into the address box, click on“GO” or hit the Return key.

You will be redirected to the Free Access to Developing Economieslist. Note: access to these journals is based on the IP Address of your computer and HINARI countries are eligible for access.

Which of the following HighWire Press journals are accessible to HINARI participants?

a.American Journal of Public Health

b.Annals of Internal Medicine

c.JAMA

d.Journal of Biological Chemistry

e.Journal of Family Nursing

Return to the HINARI “Full-text journals, databases and other resources” page.

Exercise 8

PubMed results page displayed for your search statement

With the malaria infections AND Africasearch results displayed on the page, select the Display Settings drop down menu next to by clicking on the hypertext link.

The menu showing the choice of options will display. You can scroll down the list to see all that are available. The default display is Summary.

What information does the Summary option display? What other information would be of use to you?

On your search results page, select the Abstract display by going to the

Display Settings drop down menu and clicking on Abstract.

The details of this format will be displayed. Note that the Abstract display contains a summary of the article and that is invaluable in deciding if you want the full-text article or not. Also, the Abstract display contains the HINARI and/or publisher/free full text icons that link to the actual full-text articles.

Again, what additional fields are displayed in this format?

Finally select MEDLINE from the Display menu.

The MEDLINE format shows all the fields in the MEDLINE record along with the field identifiers at the beginning of each line. This format should be used for downloading records into reference management software.

Which format do you prefer and why?

Exercise 9

Display format in PubMed

Display your records in Summary format.

Using your search results page click on the Display Settings drop down menu and select the option for 200. Click on 200 to activate that format. Note how the number of items now shows 1-200 (instead of the default number 20) out of the total number of records found.

What is the total number of pages that your search now has? (noted at the top and bottom of the page)

Now go to the Sort field, click on the drop down menu next to Sort and select First Author. Click on First Author and note that the records are listed in alphabetical author order.

Next use Sort to select Pub Date by clicking on Pub Date.

The records are listed by most recent date first.

Finally select Journal by clicking on Journal.

Note how the records are now listed in alphabetical journal order.

Which format(s) do you prefer and why?

Exercise 10

File Save Send To Option

Make sure that you have the results displayed from your search statementmalaria infections AND Africa. If you have lost your search, repeat steps 1 and 2 in Exercise 2.

Put a flash drive or CD-Rom into the appropriate drive of your computer. (Alternatively you can use the computer hard drive if you prefer.)

Place ticks in the tick boxes next to the first 6 records.

For this exercise display your results in the Abstract format. Then select to save the results to disk (or other option) by clicking on File in the Send to drop down menu.

A dialog box will open asking what you wish to do with the file. Click on Save.

A further dialog box opens allowing you to select the location to save to. Select the drive you are using, rename your file with a .txt file extension - change pubmed.txt and save the file type as malariainfections.txt. Then click on Save.

Exercise 11

E-mail Send To Option

To try this exercise, you will need an e-mail address.

From the HINARI/PubMed page, display the results for your search statement malaria infections AND Africa. If you have lost your search, repeat steps 1 and 2 in Exercise 2.

Place ticks in the tick boxes next to the first 6 records.

Go to the Send To drop down menu and highlight e-mail.

The e–mail form will open and you can select the format for the records. Choose abstract and text.

Type in your chosen e-mail address and then click on the Mail button.

You will then be returned to your search page. A message in a green band should appear, across the top of your results, indicating that your records have been sent from the PubMed server to the address you typed in.

Note: Remember that from the Send To dropdown menu, you also can sendinformation to a file, printer or clipboard.

Exercise 12

Using Date Limits in PubMed

Open theLimits page in PubMed and ensure no Limits are already applied. Note : You can clear any Limits by either – from the PubMed search results page by clicking on the Remove button from Limits Activated box or – at the bottom of the Limits page - clicking on the RESET button before assigning different Limits.

Enter the search term hepatitis C in the empty search query box.

From the Dates/Published in the Last drop down menu, select the Specify Date Range option and enter 2008 to 2010. Then click on the Search button.

What is the result (# of citations) from this search?

Note that, in the records you find, there are less than the initial search with only articles from 2008 to present listed. Also note the other Date Limits options that are available.

The Limits you have used are listed in yellow Limits Activated box below the PubMed Search box.

Exercise 13

Using Age Limits in PubMed

Open the Limits page in PubMed and ensure no Limits are already applied. Note : You can clear any Limits by either – from the PubMed search results page by clicking on the Remove button from Limits Activated box or – at the bottom of the Limits page - clicking on the RESET button before assigning different Limits.

Typetuberculosis AND HIV into the search query box and perform a search in PubMed.

What is the result (# of citations) from this search?

Now follow the hyperlink to open the limits page.

Your query tuberculosis AND HIV should appearin search query box.

Now limit your search to All Adult 19+ years byselecting it from the Ages box (near the bottom of the page). Then click on the Search button.

What is the result (# of citations) from this search?

If you display the records in the Medline format you will see the occurrence of child in the MeSH terms.

The Limits you have used are listed in yellow Limits Activated box below the PubMed Search box.

Exercise 14

Using Limits By Gender and Either Human And/Or Animal Studies

Open the Limits page in PubMed and ensure no Limits are already applied. Note : You can clear any Limits by either – from the PubMed search results page by clicking on the Remove button from Limits Activated box or – at the bottom of the Limits page - clicking on the RESET button before assigning different Limits.

Type in the main query box the term HIV AND pregnancy

What is the result (# of citations) for the HIV AND pregnancy’ search?

Now go back to the limits page and select Human from the human or animal box and also Female from the gender box. Then click on Search button.

What is the result (# of citations) for material that is limited to Human and Female?

The Limits you have used are listed in yellow Limits Activated box below the PubMed Search box.

Exercise 15

Using Limits By Type of Article

Open the Limits page in PubMed and ensure no Limits are already applied. Note : You can clear any Limits by either – from the PubMed search results page by clicking on the Remove button from Limits Activated box or – at the bottom of the Limits page - clicking on the RESET button before assigning different Limits.

Type in the main query box the term HIV AND pregnancy.

On the Limits page, select Randomized Controlled Trial and Meta-analysis from the Type of Article box. Then click on Search.

What is the result (# of citations) for material that is limited to Randomized Controlled Trial and Meta-analysis?

Ensure no limits are applied (by clicking on the Remove button). For the same HIV AND pregnancy search, select Practice Guidelines and Review Articles from the Type of Article box. Then click on Search button.

What is the result (# of citations) for material that is limited to Review Articles and Practice Guidelines?

Compare the types of information from the two searches.

Delete all limits and return to the initial HINARI/PubMed page.

Exercise 16

Using Multiple Limits Together (a Summary)

Open the Limits page in PubMed and ensure no Limits are already applied. Note : You can clear any Limits by either – from the PubMed search results page by clicking on the Remove button from Limits Activated box or – at the bottom of the Limits page - clicking on the RESET button before assigning different Limits.

Type a search of your choiceinto the Pub Med Search box and complete the search.

What search did you complete and what is the result (# of citations) from this broad search?

Now go to the Limits page.

Your query should appearin PubMed Search box.

Now limit your search to with three differentLimits of your choice.

What is the result (# of citations) from this more limited search? What Limits did you add?

In reviewing all the Limits options (e.g. publication type, ages, date, language, gender or specific study group), list three options that you think you would use when searching PubMed. Why would you use these options?

Exercise 17

Advanced Search

Open the Advanced Search page in PubMed and ensure no Limits are already applied.

In theSearch Builderdrop down menu, click on MeSH Terms, type swine flu into the index box. Note that a series of entries with swine vesicular disease are listed in the drop down menu.

Use the initial swine vesicular disease term and click on Add to Search Box with AND- to place the PubMed search box.Note that this term is posted in the PubMed Search box.

Return to the Search Builder drop down menu, type developing countries into the index box. Note the new terms in the drop down menu.

For the developing country MeSH term entry, click on click on Add to Search Box with AND -to place the PubMedSearch box.

Complete the PubMed search by clicking on Search.

What is the result (# of citations) from search using the MeSH terms from Search Builder?

Complete another Advanced Search using a topic of interest to you. You may use other options in the Search Builder. See the drop down menu.

What search did you complete and what is the result (# of citations)?

How many of these articles are Free Full Text or HINARI?

Exercise 18
My NCBI - Register

From the initial PubMed/HINARI page, click on My NCBI Register