From: "Dollar, Daniel" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 16:29:27 +0000
Dear Colleagues:
I am forwarding the following news announcement on behalf of Research4Life.
Regards,
Daniel
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Research4Life’s HINARI Wins MLA’s 2015 Louise M. Darling Medal for
Outstanding Health Science Collection
HINARI Program Manager, Kimberly Parker receives the T. Mark Hodges
International Service Award
Austin, Texas May 18th 2015 – The Medical Library Association and
Research4Life partnership announced today that the HINARI program has
received the MLA’s 2015 Louise Darling Medal for Collection
Development in the Health Sciences. Launched in 2002, the HINARI
Access to Research in Health program is managed by the World Health
Organization in partnership with Yale University Library and over 160
publishers. More than 5,600 public institutions in over 100 eligible
countries have access to HINARI which provides access to 14, 000
journals and 33,000 e-books. HINARI is the first of four
Research4Life programs which also include AGORA, OARE and ARDI which
provide developing countries with free or low cost access to
discipline specific peer-reviewed content online.
“It is with great pleasure that the Board of Directors of the Medical
Library Association joins us in offering our heartfelt congratulations
on HINARI’s selection as the recipient of the 2015 Louise Darling
Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the
Health Sciences, one of MLA’s highest honors. We would like to
applaud both HINARI as a program and its driver, Kimberly Parker for
outstanding contributions to the field of health sciences
librarianship,” said Linda Walton, AHIP President, Medical Library
Association.
“As one of the six founding HINARI publisher partners, Elsevier is
proud to offer a quarter of the content in this critical program,”
said Ylann Schemm, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Elsevier and
chair of the Research4Life communications team. “Over the past decade,
we have seen both HINARI and Research4Life grow exponentially—not only
with the number of registered institutions and the content-- but also
the growth of research output and the use of evidence based medicine
in many developing countries.”
Kimberly Parker, HINARI Program Manager noted, “This honor is due to
the hard work and contributions not just of the HINARI team and the
colleagues at Yale who do so much behind the scenes, but also all the
publisher partners who have contributed their content and their
expertise to help grow the partnership.” Parker will be distinguished
with the T. Mark Hodges Award for outstanding individual achievement
in promoting, enabling, and delivering improvements in the quality of
health information internationally through health information
professionals, the improvement of libraries, or an increased use of
health information services.
“It is largely due to Ms Parker’s leadership that four UN agencies,
two US libraries, nearly 200 publishers worldwide, and a group of
technical players have successfully worked together in the informal
partnership that makes up Research4Life to transform the working lives
of tens of thousands of researchers, physicians, and policy makers in
the developing world by bringing them access to critical scientific
and medical research, said Richard Gedye, Director of Outreach
Programmes, The International Association of Scientific, Technical and
Medical Publishers.
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Notes to Editors:
HINARI and Kimberly Parker, HINARI Program Manager will both be
celebrated at the Medical Library Association’s Awards Luncheon at the
2015 Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas scheduled for Monday, May 18 from
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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About the Medical Library Association
Founded in 1898, the Medical Library Association (MLA) is a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit, educational organization of 3,000 individual and
institutional members in the health sciences information field that
provides lifelong educational opportunities, supports a knowledgebase
of health information research, and works with a global network of
partners to promote the importance of quality information for improved
health to the health care community and the public.
About Research4Life
Research4Life (www.research4Life.org) is a public-private partnership
between over 200 international scientific publishers, the
International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical
Publishers (STM), Cornell and Yale Universities in collaboration with
the WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO, and technology partner, Microsoft.
Research4Life aims to help attain six of the UNs eight Millennium
Development Goals by 2015, reducing the scientific knowledge gap
between industrialized countries and the developing world. Since
2001, the four programmes, Access to Research in Health (HINARI),
Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA), Online Access
to Research in the Environment (OARE) and Access to Research for
Development and Innovation (ARDI), have grown and developed to the
point where they now give researchers at more than 6,000 institutions
in over 100 developing world countries and territories free or low
cost online access to over 35,000 peer-reviewed international
scientific journals, books, and databases provided by the world’s
leading science publishers.
Media Contact:
Natalia Rodriguez, Research4Life Communications Coordinator
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Twitter: @R4LPartnership
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