HIV This Week

For readers in all countries:

All abstracts in HIV This Week are freely available on the Web.

You can access a majority of scientific journals free of charge no matter where you are located, but for some journals you do need a subscription to access the full text of an article. Some journals are free to readers in all countries either through ScienceDirect or through the journal’s own website.

For articles available through ScienceDirect, you should follow the link http://www.sciencedirect.com/ to the ScienceDirect homepage. Then click on journals and look for the title of the journal you are searching for.

Some journals are open access, available to readers in all countries: American Medical Association journals (http://pubs.ama-assn.org/), American Society of Clinical Oncology (2 journals), Australian Medical Association (1 journal), BioMed Central journals (http://www.biomedcentral.com/), BMJ journals (http://journals.bmj.com/), Canadian Medical Association (1 journal), Nature Publishing Group journals (http://www.nature.com/), Public Library of Science journal (http://medicine.plosjournals.org/) and Science (1 journal).

Other journals offer free access to full-text articles after a certain period of time (see lists at High Wire Press http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl and PubMed Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/).

For residents of low- and middle-income countries: the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)

HINARI, set up by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and major publishers, enables readers in low- and middle-income countries to gain access to one of the world’s largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Over 3400 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries, benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improved world health. More information on the HINARI programme and eligible countries is available at http://www.who.int/hinari/en/, e-mail: hinari@who.int.

Local, not-for-profit institutions in low- and middle- income countries may register for access to the journals through HINARI. Institutions in countries with GNP per capita below $1000 are eligible for free access. Institutions in countries with GNP per capita $1000-$3000 pay a fee of $1000 per year/institution.

For employees of UNAIDS or WHO:

If you work for WHO or UNAIDS, you can access a number of journals by going to the WHO library. You can also see the full list of journals you can access freely on the web (including usernames and passwords) by going to the WHO Library website, accessible through the home page of WHO intranet https://intranet.who.int/ under information resources. If you work for UNAIDS, HIV This Week is also available on the intranet at the link https://intranet.unaids.org/HIVThisWeek/2007/index.