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 Guideline Library with more than 7,400 guidelines and related documents (January 2012) 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 courses. 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.

Categories of Membership and specific Benefits

* Since 2011 Individual members have the possibility to elect one member of the Board of Trustees

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

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

• Opportunity to take profit by international collaboration in guideline activities, trans-national project groups, training courses, events and conferences.
• Opportunity to promote the organisation's activities.
• Full access to the online G-I-N International Guideline Library.
• Full access to GINDER - G-I-N Data Extraction Resource.
• Possibility to participate in G-I-N Working Groups and Communities' activities and access their reports.
• Reduced fees to the G-I-N conferences and courses for all staff members.
• Opportunity to nominate and elect the members of the G-I-N Board of Trustees.
• Opportunity to vote at the AGM.
• Eligibility to the G-I-N Board of Trustees.

Apply for organisational membership

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 International Guideline Library.
• Possibility to participate in G-I-N Working Groups and Communities' activities and access their reports.
• Eligibility to the G-I-N Board of Trustees and possibility to elect one member of the Board.

Apply for individual membership

3. Organisational Membership with Health Library access is available to organisations that host an electronic health library for their region.

• Opportunity to take profit by international collaboration in guideline activities, trans-national project groups, training courses, events and conferences.
• Opportunity to promote the organisation's activities.
• Full regional access to the online G-I-N International Guideline Library (unlimited users).
• Possibility to participate in G-I-N Working Groups and Communities' activities and access their reports.

• Opportunity to nominate and elect the members of the G-I-N Board of Trustees.
• Opportunity to vote at the AGM.

• Eligibility to the G-I-N Board of Trustees.

Apply for organisational membership with health library access

4. 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 International Guideline Library.
• Access to G-I-N Working Group Activities and Reports.
• Organisation representatives' eligibility to the G-I-N Board of Trustees.

Apply for associate membership

How can you Join Us?

If you're interested in joining the Network please complete one of the online application form 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 the appropriate 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.

^* Organisations with up to 10 staff members.

^** The term “Consumer” is used to address all groups of lay people (people who are not healthcare professionals, nor G-I-N member) who contribute to or could potentially contribute to evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. This includes people who have a condition or disability relevant to guidelines in use, in development or in need of development, or being implemented. It also includes people such as family and friends who provide unpaid care for them. And, it includes individuals from organisations representing consumers interests, including voluntary sector or non-governmental organisations. Synonyms of consumer include 'patients', 'carers' 'Consumer advocates', 'service user', 'user representative' or 'patient representative'.

*** The fee will be 2.500 € plus at least 2.500 € for health library access, the exact sum will be negotiated annually and individually by the Board.

^**** 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 individual members joining in the course of the year.

As agreed at out Annual General Meeting of 2011, an introductory fee is offered to new organisational members. This fee is equivalent to 20% of the regular fee they would have had to pay and if valid only for the first year.