Transcript • Introduction • Information literacy for postgraduate students • The Internet and research • Using the library for research • Accessing quality information • Managing.

• Introduction
• Information literacy for postgraduate students
• The Internet and research
• Using the library for research
• Accessing quality information
• Managing your references
• Avoiding plagiarism in your thesis writing
The library was established in April 2002 and currently
located at level 1 & 2 KWSP Building. The branch
library at Ulu Pauh Campus was officiated on 28th
December 2009.
Information literacy skills is one of
the key set of determined generic
skills for postgraduate students
Helen Fallon and Mary Antones, 2007
•Internet offers huge information
resources for researchers and students
Google Books, Google Scholar, Blogs, etc.
•Online contents are accessible via web
based platform
Pubmed, ScienceDirect, Springer, etc.
•Open access contents are accessible freely
via the Internet
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), repositories
(ROAR), digital archives, etc.
Google Scholar uses the Google search engine
to search for scholarly materials, such as research
papers, preprints, theses, books, and reports,
coming from a variety of academic publishers,
professional societies, repositories and universities
sites.
Users can have complete access to full text
content of scholarly materials displayed on
Google Scholar as long as UniMAP Library
subscribed to the resources
•The library is offering access to more than
85,000 e-books and 9,000 e-journals via
the Internet
•These contents are published by prominent
academic publishers, commercial
aggregators and professional institutions
•Subscription cost for e-journals is almost
RM 2 million per year
Access to web resources is available through
our information gateway @
http://mylib.unimap.edu.my
Remote access facility via EZProxy server at
UniMAP Library allow users to access to
digital library resources anytime, anywhere as
long as you are connected to the Internet
Registered users are required to enter their
username and password for authentication
purpose
1. Login to UniMAP Library website at http://mylib.unimap.edu.my
2. Click on e-Resources button
3. Enter username and password
4. Click on login button
January 2010
•E-journals @ the library are publisher based
contents
Listing of subscribed e-journals from
various publishers are available on
All full text databases offered two types of
searching mode;
•Basic Seach
•Advanced seach
•UniMAP Library subscribes to many full
text databases
•Subscriptions are based on selected
segments (e-journals / e-books /
reviews and many others)
•Users are not able to acquire complete
full text contents of the whole databases
•Present subcription includes content
coverage from year 1996 to current year
•Content coverage from 1996 and
backward is sold separately
•Request full text content from Interlibrary
Loan (ILL) service
•Free-based service
•Request are forwarded to local universities
•E-mail item details to [email protected]
•E-books at UniMAP Library is exceeding
90,000 titles
•Books especially handbooks provide
background and theoretical information
•The library also provide access to 36,000
printed books in addition to e-books
Access to 5,000 engineering books
Is limited for January – December 2010
only
Access to full text contents from
Year 2000 (publication year) up to
2009.
Research findings indicate that in all fields,
cited proceedings are younger than cited
literature in general, suggesting that
proceedings are a medium of more recent
knowledge than are all types of literature in
general.
•Conference papers are also available on open
access platforms via institutional repositories
•It is much easier and faster for researchers to
share their scholarly work with others through
Institutional Repositories (IR)
http://www.opendoar.org/
http://roar.eprints.org/
http://mylib.unimap.edu.my
•The library subscribed to ProQuest Digital
Theses Full Text (PQDT)
•Only includes theses produced by students at
American Universities
•Full text theses are also available from ETHOS
offered by various educational institutions
PQDT Open is a new service provided by ProQuest, which
also has the fee-based ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database.
The PQDT Open can be used to find full text of over 3,000
open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
The authors of these dissertations and theses have chosen to
publish as open access
http://dspace.mit.edu/
For more information, please contact:
Mazmin Mat Akhir
Senior Librarian
Phone: 04-9798777
Email: [email protected]