Searching across Research4Life collections via Summon or Google Scholar

 Just a reminder of the possibility to search across the Research4Life (R4L) collections. You can either use the discovery tool Summon (which is supplied by R4L) or use Google Scholar.

In the online course on R4L you can find many ppt-guides. One of them addresses the possibility to search across the collections, Search across Research4Life collections using Summon.
You will find the guide in the Librarians hub.

In this blog post we have added the same guide converted to a pdf. Search across Research4Life

Good luck!

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

Webinar on Open Access publishing

 

Research4Life organizes a free webinar on Open Access publishing on Thursday July 15th at 2 PM (CET).

Publishing OA often involves publication fees, Article Processing (or Publishing) Charges (APC). Many publishers offer APC waivers that researchers from lower and middle-income countries can benefit from. 
However, it can be difficult to find the waiver policies and to understand how to use them. In this webinar you will learn more about APC waiver policies, so you can give your researchers better guidance.

The webinar is free, but you need to register.

 

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.

Avoiding plagiarism - a manual

Be inspired by the 28 pages long guide "Manual sobre plágio : um guia para professores e alunos" which is freely available for download.

This guide is published by one of the companies offering an automated plagiarism checker. It contains some promotional materials for the company but apart from that you find good examples of how to avoid unintentional plagiarism. At the end of the manual you find "... vários exemplos para você examinar e aprender o que tende a ser considerado plágio". (Manual sobre plágio p. 18)

Download the manual and use it when you work with your students.

Facilitating meetings and courses online

Now you can register for a free online tutorial, designed to help with facilitation of online courses and events. INASP* created this tutorial last year and it consists of four units which you take in your own pace. The expected time to complete the entire tutorial is twelve hours.

Read more about the tutorial in the INASP blog, or go directly to INASP Moodle where you can create an account just by clicking on Log in. Once you have an account you can register for the tutorial. 

* As many of you know, INASP is a NGO that "aims to strengthen the capacity of individuals and institutions to produce, share and use research and knowledge in Africa, Asia and Latin America".

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/