Become a G-I-N Member

• Benefits
• Categories of Membership
• How can you join us?
• Membership fees

The Benefits of G-I-N Membership

The Guidelines International Network facilitates collaborative work between guideline organisations.

G-I-N's aim is to provide broad and easy access to its numerous resources for organisations and individuals of all parts in the world. To facilitate multilateral collaboration G-I-N members are expected to contribute to G-I-N's work, in particular by providing information on their activities for the G-I-N website.

Benefits of being part of an inspiring professional community include:

• Sharing resource-intensive systematic reviews and evidence tables. Given the high costs of literature searching and critical appraisal, this will bring opportunities for reduced costs and improved quality of clinical practice guidelines.
• Having access to the world's largest guideline database - G-I-N's International Guidelines Database with more than 6,700 guidelines online, and to the guideline tools inventory providing access to G-I-N members' tools for producing and implementing evidence based guidelines.
• Working with international experts and participating in G-I-N Working Groups on topics designed to enhance guideline development and implementation.
• Information about the news and action of G-I-N members' organisation through the G-I-N Newsletter (enGINe).
• A chance to meet guideline professionals from all over the world at the G-I-N Conferences and Workshops. Members are entitled to a discount rate for G-I-N annual conferences.
• Mentoring and professional development opportunities. The G-I-N community organises in-house training and regional CME symposia in all parts of the world.

Categories of Membership and specific Benefits

* Opportunity to promote the activities at the G-I-N Conferences

1. Organisational Full Membership is available for non-profit-distributing organisations involved in developing, disseminating, implementing, or evaluating clinical practice guidelines, or otherwise active in the field.

• Opportunity to promote the organisation's activities.
• Full access to the online G-I-N Guideline Database (5 registered users at the same time).
• Access to G-I-N Working Group activities and reports.
• Election of the G-I-N Board of Trustees.
• Organisation representatives' eligibility to the G-I-N Board of Trustees.

2. Individual Membership is available to individuals working in the field of clinical practice guidelines and to profit-distributing organisations.

• Opportunity to take profit by international collaboration in guideline activities, trans-national project groups, training courses, events and conferences.
• One log on access to the online G-I-N Guideline Database.
• Access to G-I-N Working Group Activities and Reports.
• Eligibility to the G-I-N Board of Trustees.

3. Regional Membership is available to organisations that host an electronic health library for their region.

• Opportunity to promote the organisation's activities.
• Full regional access to the online G-I-N Guideline Database (unlimited users).
• Access to G-I-N Working Group activities and reports.
• Election of the G-I-N Board of Trustees.
• Organisation representatives' eligibility to the G-I-N Board of Trustees.

4. Organisational Associate Membership is available to for-profit organisations active in the guideline field.

• Opportunity to promote the activities of the organisation at the G-I-N conferences.
• Full access to the online G-I-N Guideline Database (5 registered users at the same time).
• Access to G-I-N Working Group Activities and Reports.
• Organisation representatives' eligibility to the G-I-N Board of Trustees.

How can you Join Us?

If you're interested in joining the Network please complete one of the online application forms (the online forms will be available in the coming days) after consultation of G-I-N's Memorandum and Articles of Association.

IMPORTANT: Once you have submitted the form, please print it out, sign it and date it, prior to sending it to the G-I-N office by mail or fax (+49-30-4005-2555). Indeed, even though your application will be seen by our staff as soon as it has been submitted online, it cannot be processed without signatures.

PDF and Word formats of the application forms are also available from the "Related Resources" box.

If you need more information or help for the application process, please mail to office@g-i-n.net or dial the G-I-N office (+49-30-4005-2500).  We are very happy to assist you.

Membership Fees

The main source of funding of the Network is the fees paid by its members. However, to provide the widest access to our resources we are aiming at keeping our subscriptions at a low level. Therefore, following approbation at the Annual General Meeting of 2005, introduced a variation of the fees based on the location of the organisation/individual. The distinction is being performed based on the classification of the World Bank and separate High and Upper-Middle economies and Lower-Middle and Low economies.

We also separate those small organisations (with a maximum of 10 staff members) from the larger ones and provide our members with the opportunity to sponsor/mentor a member from a developing country.

The table below shows our annual membership fees.

¹ Organisations with up to 10 staff members.

² The membership fee will be at least 5000 €, the exact sum will be negotiated by the Board.

³ 750 € per member sponsored will be invoiced.

Please note that as our financial year, the membership year of G-I-N runs from April 1st until March 31st of each year. As agreed at our Annual General Meeting of 2009, pro rata fees will be applied to members joining in the course of the year.