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Tanzania National website
Ministry of Health (Tanzania)
The Kagera AIDS Research Project
University of Dar es Salaam
The Tanzania Education Authority (TEA)
The Higher Education Students’ Loans Board
World Health Organization (WHO)
Tanzania Online
www.inwent.org
The Medical Stores Department (MSD) INFORM LINKS The links shown on this page have been selected by INFORM (International Network for Online Resources and Materials). INFORM trains health professionals in lower-income countries to access free and subsidized online journals and other valuable resources. Persons wanting more information about INFORM activities in Tanzania should contact: The National Coordinator of INFORM/Tanzania,
Professor Siriel Massawe,
Director of Postgraduate Training (MUHAS) at
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Free full text online journals
The following are sources of full text online journals that are free to everyone or are available free of charge to MUHAS staff and students through a subsidized access programme (INASP/PERI) or a national provision covering all of Tanzania.
To filter out all the free full text from about 500 medical journals, type your search term followed by AND Free Full Text [Filter] and then click on Go.
About 1600 journals, most in English. Click on specialties, then your field of interest, then the journal you want to see. When you get to the journal?s home page, look around for Search and the list of all issues? labeled Archives or Browse or Issues. Note that some journals are only available a year after publication. About 700 full-text journals available through INASP. Click on health sciences or medicine, then your field, then the journal, then the issue, then full text or pdf. You can also search through all the journals using the search option. - Highwire highwire.stanford.edu/lists/devecon.dtl
About 100 free full-text journals. Only 25 journals, but very good ones. Through cooperation between the MUHAS Library and the ICT Directorate, registration forms and updated IP numbers have now been submitted to several other publishers in order to make even more full text journals available through INASP. Links will be added here as they become accessible.
Other Valuable Resources About 600 full-text online medical books, most in English. On the first page, click on English. On the next page, click on Databases, links. When the menu appears, click on the first item to get free journals and other resources for all medical topics or on the third item to get guidelines on specific topics in reproductive health. Up-to-date review articles, free full-text, on most medical topics. Click near the top of the home page on Specialties or Research Centers to get into the topic lists and articles. Abstracts of Cochrane reviews. www.update-software.com/cochrane/abstract.htm Use the search function or browse through the reviews done by each of the Cochrane collaborative review groups. Coverage of diseases around the world, with some excellent teaching materials, including life cycle diagrams, instructions for laboratory preparations, etc. Try clicking on Diseases and Conditions, A-Z Index, and Centers, Institutes, and Offices Resources for teachers and students, including online textbooks in areas such as anatomy. The main menu covers country information, information on different health topics, publications, and research tools. For comprehensive health statistics, click on research tools and go to the WHOSIS menu. The library at Karolinska Institute in Sweden has an excellent gateway to WWW sites on various diseases and conditions. When you reach the site, click on the alphabetic list or use the search function. This is a gold mine, with hundreds of links to valuable medical and health resources on the Web. Most of the links give particular focus to health in developing countries.
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