Access to content via Research4Life

Many times we have brought up the importance of using Research4Life to access resources which are behind paywalls. In May 2024 we looked especially at databases and collections within the subject field of Medicine available in Research4Life .

In October 2024 we were planning to have a follow up workshop about access to PubMed content. Unfortunately the workshop had to be cancelled due to the events after the elections in Mozambique.

The workshop presentation (Access to articles) includes some facts and figures showing how many more articles you will access if you search PubMed via Research4Life. It also includes some exercises exemplifying how the way to access the resources will decide the number of articles available for you at UEM and in Mozambique.

The intended participants of the workshop were the librarians at the Central library of UEM who work with e-resources. The presentation, or parts of it, could also be helpful when the UEM librarians reach out to their users.

Resources for PhD students at the Faculty of Medicine : which they are and how to use them

In May 2024 the library at UEM was asked if they could train the PhD students of the Faculty of Medicine. We prepared this training with a workshop for the UEM librarians in Zoom.

During the workshop we used a powerpoint presentation, "Resources for the PhD students at the Faculty of Medicine : Which they are and how to use them"

In addition to this powerpoint we looked at the training materials from Research4Life. We used and referred to their powerpoint "Additional discipline-specific resources : Health sciences". Find this powerpoint at the Librarians hub at Research4Life

The Lens - a free and open knowledge and discovery platform

 Monday June 7th you can join a webinar on The Lens. 

 In The Lens you can search for patents and scholarly works from all over the world. It's an open resource which you can access via Research4Life (in the portal, click "Databases for discovery") or directly via The Lens website. 

The patents and the scholarly works are interconnected, so you can see if patents have been cited in scholarly works and vice versa.

Take the opportunity to learn more about this resource. It could be a good idea to take the online Feature tour before joining the webinar.

Learn more about Law and Social sciences in Research4Life

GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information) is a Research4Life program. On Thursday March 25th you can participate in a webinar where you can learn more about GOALI.

• Which resources you can find
• How to effectively use the search functions

You have to register for this free webinar, which will be recorded and published in the Research4Life training portal.

Use this link to find more information about the webinar.

https://www.research4life.org/news/goali-webinar-law-and-social-sciences-in-research4life/

Keep up with news and changes

So much is happening in the library world. How can we keep up with all the news and changes? 

You can subscribe to newsletters or follow blogs from organisations such as INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications), Research4Life and eifl (Electronic Information For Libraries).

Using Facebook or Twitter is another way to keep up with what's new. 

@inasp.info 

@R4Lpartnership 

@eIFL.net

Do you have any other ideas of how to keep up with what's new? Feel free to share them with us in the team working with the Central Library Programme and then we can publish your ideas on the blog.

Research4Life adds presentations in Portuguese

These Powerpoint presentations can be used by librarians in Research4Life training activities with library users.

Most of the presentations are available in English and Spanish, but there are some presentations in Portuguese as well:

Discipline-specific browsing and searching:

• Hinari: Research for health
• Citation databases

Additional discipline-specific resources:

• Health sciences
• Health and evidence-based medicine
• Interdisciplinary resources

"This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). The logos used in the course are exempt. This CC BY-SA 4.0 license allows trainers to modify and adapt the material for specific training purposes at the host institution to meet the group’s specific needs."

https://www.research4life.org/training/resources-for-information-specialists/presentations/

Two workshops on information literacy

Last week, a follow up workshop on information literacy for UEM library staff took place in the computer lab of the library. The participants were coming from several UEM libraries in Maputo.

It was a follow up of a workshop held in 2018 and it included different aspects of information literacy. An important part of the training is to learn how librarians can help library users to get to a higher level of information literacy in an academic context.

Examples from the content are: information retrieval, search techniques (like Boolean searches), evaluation of results, scientific articles, references, citations and diagnostic tests.

Materials from the workshop will be posted soon in this blog.

Participants from the UEM Library

October 28th-29th a workshop was organized for librarians from other institutions of higher education as well as government agencies. The content was similar to the content of the workshop for UEM librarians, but with more focus on the databases made available in Mozambique. Which are they, what do they include and how do you search those databases in an efficient way?

In addition to this, Dr Horacio Zimba gave a presentation of the research library consortium of Mozambique.

Some of the librarians from other universities and institutes.

Research4Life

Research4Life commitment until 2025

The Research4Life partners have announced that they have agreed to extend their partnership through 2025. Research4Life currently provides over 8,700 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed eResources from the world’s leading scholarly publishers. The renewed commitment will ensure that the nearly 85,000 peer reviewed academic journals, books and databases from some 200 scholarly publishers available through the public-private Research4life partnership will continue to reach research communities in low- and middle-income countries.

Workshop : Information literacy, UEM library June 5th-7th

This week we are exploring the concept of information literacy. The content of the workshop is:

• A general introduction to information literacy
• Exploration of which types of resources UEM has access to, subscribed as well as free
• Understanding the role of librarians teaching information literacy

Some documents which may be of interest are:
Recomendações da IFLA sobre a Literacia Informacional e Mediática Versão Final Parasobreviver e evoluir, 2011 (2 pages)

Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, 2015 (18 pages)

The SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy, 2011 (14 pages)

Writing a good research question [2018-06-06]

How to spot fake news, IFLA, 2018 (Poster, also available in Portuguese)

Many libraries have written about the CRAAP test, a test used to evaluate sources. I found something from the Benedectine university, CRAAP. Search on the web to find more examples.

Research4Life, improved access and content

We have found some interesting news about the improved Research4Life. Please share with your colleagues and users.

From the beginning of this year, all institutions registered for any of the Research4Life programmes  (Hinari, AGORA, OARE and ARDI) get access to all portals with their credentials. New registered institutions no longer receive programme specific credentials but a general Research4Life access.
This means that any Research4Life user can now access up to 81,000 resources of Research4Life from all four programmes! On the 6th of March, the GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information) will be launched as the fifth Research4Life programme. All institutions registered with the partnership will have access to information on academic legal journals, publications and databases. GOALI is hosted by the International Labour Organization (ILO). More information about the launch can be found here.

(A link to the information above and more is found here)