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The Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM) is a project of the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office in collaboration with several institutions in its Member States. This is the Region's contribution to the Global Health Library (GHL) initiative which aims to extend to all the benefits of the knowledge that is essential to the fullest attainment of health. WPRIM will be deployed and hosted, along with the index medici of other WHO Regions, at the Global Index Medicus portal under the GHL platform, where searches can be conducted individually or simultaneously through a federated search engine.
The creation of an online index of medical and health journals published in Member States of the WHO Western Pacific Region which can be accessed on the Internet thus ensuring global accessibility of medical and health research done in the Region.
All journals must be approved by the Regional Journal Selection Committee before inclusion of any of their articles or abstracts in the WPRIM database.
The Global Health Library (GHL) has been conceptualized by WHO Library & Information Networks for Knowledge (LNK/HQ) to "extend to all the people the benefits of the knowledge that is essential to the fullest attainment of health". One of the contents of the GHL is the Global Index Medicus (GIM) which currently hosts the regional index medici produced by the WHO Regional Offices in Africa, the Americas, Eastern Mediterranean and South-East Asia where they can be searched individually or simultaneously through a federated search engine. The WHO Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) would like to create its own regional index medicus to be deployed alongside the other regional medical indexes in the GIM portal as part of WPRO`s contribution to the GHL.