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PERI and online information
resources to support research in
IUT
Effective use of e-resources
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Terminology – what are we talking about?
• Research information available over the internet
–E-resources, electronic resources, online information, einformation, information databases, journals databases, digital
libraries, digital resources, digital collections, electronic publications,
subscription services, …
• The people who need to use that information
–Research community, researchers, students, teachers …
• The people who manage the access to that information
–Information service, library community, librarians, information staff,
information professionals …
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What is INASP and PERI?
• INASP – International Network for the Availability of
Scientific Publications
• PERI - Programme for the Enhancement of Research
Information
• To support capacity building in the research sector in
developing and transitional countries through
strengthening the production and dissemination of, and
access to, information & knowledge utilising new
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
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PERI: A three component programme
1. Delivering information
– facilitates the acquisition of international information and
knowledge
2. Disseminating and strengthening local research
publishing
– strengthens and develops access to national and regional
journals as a medium for the dissemination of local information
and knowledge
– enhances skills in the preparation, production and
management of journals
– Bangladesh Journals Online
• http://www.banglajol.info/
3. Enhancing ICT Skills
– provides awareness or training in the use and/or evaluation of
ICTs
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PERI in Bangladesh
• Assists in the collection and provision of electronic
information resources
• Full text access available at the point of use (i.e. free to
end users)
• Full details and listing available from:
– http://www.inasp.info/
– Use the country finder
– Select Bangladesh
• Click each resource for subject and service features
and information on how to register or to access directly
if already registered
• To get free full text, your institution must be registered
– this is the responsibility of the library
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Resources available in Bangladesh 1
• African Journals Online (AJOL) Abstracts of over 250 Africanpublished journals, with access to some full text online, and a
document delivery service.
• American Chemical Society More than 30 high quality, high
impact journals.
• American Physical Society APS Access to the Physical Review
Online Archive (PROLA) and journals produced by the American
Physical Society
• Annual Reviews a high quality filter, prioritising and synthesising
the primary research literature in 33 different disciplines for the
Biomedical, Life, Physical and Social Sciences.
• Beech Tree Publishing Access to two international, peerreviewed academic journals
• Blackwell Publishing over 840 leading learned journals in
science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences
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Resources available in Bangladesh 2
• British Library Direct Pay-as-you-go access to articles from the
top 20,000 international research journals
• British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC) The world's
largest collection devoted to the provision of remote document
delivery covering every aspect of science, technology, medicine
and humanities, in many languages.
• Cambridge University Press Over 200 leading titles in
Linguistics, Politics, Medicine, Science, Technology, Social
Science and Humanities.
• Institute of Physics Publishing The Institute of Physics
Publishing publishes over 50 of the world's most prestigious
journals in physics and related sciences.
• Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. has generously
offered free electronic access to all journal titles. The publisher is
keen for research colleagues in developing nations to evaluate its
publications for future collection development
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Resources available in Bangladesh 3
• Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland Database
containing over 120,000 abstracts relating to the earth sciences.
• Multilingual Matters and Channel View Publications is one of
the world leaders in research on multilingualism and minority
language rights and offers 14 journals in this field. Channel View
Publications is an imprint offering 6 journals in tourism and
environmental studies.
• Oxford Journals OUP Over 160 leading titles in science,
technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.
• Royal Society Seven leading international journals covering the
whole of the biological and physical sciences
• Springer eJournals 1075 journals in biomedicine and the life
sciences, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics,
computer sciences, human sciences, social sciences and
economics.
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Resources available in Bangladesh 4
• Taylor & Francis Dekker Agropedia Collection reference
titles in the agricultural sciences in six easily searchable
resources.
• Taylor & Francis Online eBook Library Online
eCollections in the areas of Social Sciences and the
Humanities.
• University of California Press Access to 8 Journals of the
University of California Press
• University of Chicago Press Journals and serials in a wide
range of disciplines
• Wiley InterScience full text of over 500 leading scientific,
technical, medical, and professional journals and The
Cochrane Library - the world's best single source of
evidence about the effects of healthcare.
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Content summary
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LOTS of full text content is available
4,000+ full text journals
Reference databases and resources
Multiple starting points of entry
– Authentication and registration at institutional level is nearly
always required
• Same basic interfaces; search, browse, keyword and
title
• It helps to know which content and subject areas are
included in which information resource
– You either need to know that or know someone who does
– This is the job of the library and its user services staff
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Resources Available at IUT
(accessible only from IUT campus network)
• American Chemical Society – http://pubs.acs.org/html
• American Physical Society – http://publish.aps.org
• Annual Reviews –
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/action/showjournals
• Blackwell Synergy – http://www.blackwell-synergy.com
• Cambridge University Press – http://journals.cambridge.org
• Institute of Physics – www.iop.org
• Oxford University Press – http://www.oxfordjournals.org/
• Royal Society – www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk
• Springer – www.springerlink.com
• Wiley Inter-Science – http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
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At a glance
• List of all available publishers and url are available in
the IUT website
– http://www.iutoic-dhaka.edu/facilities/facilities_2.htm
• List of all subscribed journals (titles) are also are
available in the IUT website
– http://www.iutoic-dhaka.edu/facilities/Titlelist_2007_new.htm
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Effective searching
Things to know before you
begin searching
and
Developing a successful
search strategy
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Things to know before you begin
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What are you really searching?
Types of search tools currently available
Where should I begin?
What other tools exist to find information
through the Internet?
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What are you really searching
• What are you really searching when you search the Web?
– “Searching the Web” is not possible
– Only able to search indexes of parts of it
– It’s a massive resource and impossible to search everything
– No search engine or tool should be believed if it claims to be
searching the whole Web
– Searching different parts, with different approaches is
appropriate, depending on the purpose
– Limitations should be understood and recognised
– Think about your own searching behaviour – is it as effective
as it might be?
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Types of search tools currently available
• Search engines
• Subject directories
• Specialized databases (The Invisible
Web)
• Library type e-resources (the main focus
of this workshop)
• Comparison table see:
– http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/ThingsToKno
w.html
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Where should I begin?
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No magic answer!
Start with different types of search tools, depending on
– What you know about your topic
– What you want to know
– Library e-resources are there and essential for academic type research
Do you want broad information? Are you looking for something very specific or
perhaps a unique term or phrase? Are you looking for a narrow aspect of a topic
with a huge Web presence?
When you search, are you overwhelmed by too many or off-target results?
Are there a lot of synonyms of equivalent terms for what you seek?
Each of these questions can give you a clue where to begin
Getting your search strategy right is the start of this process
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What other tools exist to find information
through the Internet?
• You may not be able to find the information you
see?
• Does that mean it doesn’t exist?
• Asking people may then be the best approach
• The library is a good place to start
– What e-resources does it have available to you to
help your research?
– Do not just rely on searching Google. Too many
people do!
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Developing an effective search
strategy: analyse your topic &
search with peripheral vision
A five step search strategy
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Step #1. Analyze your topic to decide
where to begin
• Outline the topic you want to search
– http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/form.pdf
• Pre-searching analysis (on paper)
– What UNIQUE WORDS, DISTINCTIVE NAMES, ABBREVIATIONS,
or ACRONYMS are associated with your topic?
– Can you think of societies, organizations, or groups that might have
information on your subject via their pages?
– What other words are likely to be in ANY Web documents on your
topic?
– Do any of the words in 1, 2, or 3 belong in phrases or strings together in a certain order, like a cliché?
– For any of the terms in #4, can you think of synonyms, variant
spellings, or equivalent terms you would also accept in relevant
documents?
– Can you think of any extraneous or irrelevant documents these words
might pick up?
– What BROADER terms could your topic be covered by?
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Step #2. Pick the right starting place
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Step #3. Learn as you go & VARY your
approach with what you learn
• Find out how your chosen resource functions if you do
not already know
• Don't assume you know what you want to find. Look at
search results and see what you might use in addition
to what you've thought of
• Research shows that searchers rarely look beyond the
first 10 results and hardly ever beyond 30. Can you
really be sure you have found the most relevant
information using such an approach?
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Step #4. Don't bog down in any strategy
that doesn't work
• Run your search
• Switch between different e-resources, search
engines and directories and back again
• Find specialized e-resources or directories on
your topic. Think about possible databases and
look for them.
• Don’t forget the library and other information
resources – they are there to help in exactly
this area
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Step #5. Return to previous strategies
better informed
• Review and refine your search as you go along
and on completion
• Simple but true
• Share successful approaches with your friends
and colleagues
• If appropriate, train others to improve their
searching
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Cross searching and single search
interfaces
• How can I search all the content in one go?
• At present this is not really possible
• Common problem faced by libraries all over the
world, there is no single service that allows
easy access to all content
• Some libraries have developed their own
systems e.g. ELIN (Electronic Library
Information Navigator) in Sweden
• Google Scholar library links
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Google scholar
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Check out:
http://scholar.google.com/
Read the Help section
Look at the link resolver content
INASP are currently working on this with
Google
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Special Thanks to
Mr. Martin Belcher
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
60 St Aldates, Oxford OX1 1ST, UK
[email protected]
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Thank you
Any questions?
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