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/

Materials from Information literacy workshop at UEM - October 2019

In October, Anna Stockman from Blekinge Institute of Technology facilitated two workshops for library staff. The participants from UEM came to the first workshop which was a follow up of the 2018 information literacy workshop.

The second workshop, "Introduction to information literacy" was organized for participants from libraries outside UEM.

The presentations used during the workshops have been combined into one single PDF-document.

Course on how to use Research4Life. APPLY NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 5th!

Interesting possibility to learn more about Research4Life.

"Research4Life is [...] launching a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) that will equip existing and future users of the Research4Life programs (Hinari, AGORA, OARE, ARDI and GOALI) with the knowledge and skills required to access and use the information efficiently. The call for applications to attend the MOOC is now open, and the course will take place between 11 November to 15 December 2019."

"Participants are expected to spend on average six to eight hours per week on lessons and activities, such as contributing to discussion forums and webinars."

Read more about the course.

Study visits

For three days I was given the opportunity to visit libraries at universities and institutions in Maputo, Matola and Chibotu. I would like to thank all the people who made this possible! It has been some very interesting and important days.

Here are just a few photos from the visits.