HINARI

knockels
I'm very new to Zotero, having helped teach it to MSc students in University of Gondar, Ethiopia last week. It will not work with PubMed through HINARI, the WHO digital library. There is another message on this board about the same topic, from 2008.

Is there anyone who is working to make Zotero work with HINARI? What can we do about it?

The danger is that Zotero users will get into the habit of searching PubMed directly and not through HINARI, and then they will not get the full text links to material available through HINARI.
  • adamsmith
    Either they would need to expose their metadata in a format that Zotero can read
    http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/exposing_metadata
    or someone would need to write a Zotero translator -
    http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators
    that someone can, as it appears, not be one of the usual suspects, because with HINARI targeted at developing countries, none of the people in the US who have done most work on translators have access.

    If you're in contact with the HINARI people, it may be possible to find someone - my guess would be ajlyon - who would be willing to write a translator for a reasonable fee if given temporary access to the database.
  • ajlyon
    As adamsmith said, I can take this on, but not without access to the database.
  • knockels
    Thanks for those comments. I'll contact HINARI to start with and bear ajlyon in mind. My Ethiopian colleagues were keen on Zotero because it is open source, so getting it to work with HINARI would be useful.
  • knockels
    I have been in touch with HINARI, who have passed the enquiry onto various interested parties connected with HINARI. Will post here (if I remember!) if I hear more news.

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