Access to research in the developing world : Global week In Gothenburg 2013
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Research4Life has four programmes which give access to important scientific information for researchers and students in the developing world.
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Access to research in the developing world : Global week In Gothenburg 2013
- 1. Access to leading research in the developing world Global Week Gothenburg November 14th 2013 1
- 2. Why are we here? What can you access? Who gets access? How do you get access? Explore 2
- 3. Why are we here? Why am I here? 3
- 4. Why are we here? Awareness is low When you think of a library is this what you have in mind? 4
- 5. Why are we here? Why are you here? 5
- 6. What can you access? Survey done in 2010 – comparing access to scientific journals in Africa and Europe Of the titles that African users listed as inaccessible to them, 72% were actually readily accessible through their libraries’ online subscriptions. On average, 79% of the top-ranked international journals were available online, free at the point of use, at the four case study universities. Harle, J., 2010. The Association of Commonwealth Universities: Growing Knowledge: Access to Research in East and Southern African Universities, Association of Commonwealth Universities. https://www.acu.ac.uk/focus-areas/arcadia-growing-knowledge 6
- 7. What can you access? Taking the top 20 journals in key areas, as measured by journal impact factor, and comparing these against current journal collections (2009 subscriptions). 7
- 8. What can you access? Research4Life Four UN-supported programmes – HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI Provides developing countries with free or low cost access to academic content online. • Online access to over 30,000 peer-reviewed international scientific journals, books, and databases • Full-text articles which can be downloaded for saving, printing or reading on screen http://www.research4life.org 8
- 10. Who gets access? EIFL partner countries (orange) http://www.eifl.net/ 10
- 11. Who gets access? INASP Partner countries http://inasp.info/ 11
- 12. Basic Information on OARE and ARDI (Research4Life) N.B. Research4Life also includes HINARI (medicine) and AGORA (agriculture) 12
- 13. Eligibility • Group A: GNI (gross national income) per capita below $1600 are eligible for free access • Group B: Institutions in countries with GNI per capita between $1601-$5000 pay a fee of $1000 per year • Some publishers opt out of this option and do not allow access to their journals • Free/Low cost to >100 countries/territories 13
- 14. Eligibility (2) Eligible categories of institutions are: national universities research institutes professional schools (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, dentistry) teaching hospitals government: ministries and agencies national medical libraries locally based non-governmental agencies All permanent and visiting faculty, staff members and students are entitled to access and can obtain the institutional User Name and Password. 14
- 15. OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment) • Environment and related sciences • Over 4800 journals 8300 books 110 publishers • 1800+ institutions registered • Coordinated by UNEP/Yale University Data: 2013 03 15
- 16. ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation) • Scientific and technical information • Over 2000 journals 5000 books 17 publishers • Eligible institutions are patent offices and academic and research institutions • A program developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and its publishing partners in the fields of science and technology 16
- 17. How do we get access? 17
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- 19. OARE Features • Searching by Journal title • Subject Access Options • Searching by Language • Titles by Publisher • Searching by Book title • Search Articles 19
- 21. Searching by Title – mind the range 21
- 23. Article searching – use a database 23
- 24. Thank you! 24
- 25. Explore http://www.research4life.org/programmes/ OARE – Environment (use the link ”Access the content”) ARDI – Innovation AGORA - Agriculture HINARI - Medicine 25
Editor's Notes
- Projectsinvolving access to scientificresources in developingcountries.Howdo you seelibraries in developingcountries? Anyexperiences?Perhaps like the nextslide?
- Don’tjudge a book by the cover.
- What you learn you spreadaround you, like rings on the water.Help the librarians to reachout. Oftentheyhave a problem getting the attention of researchers and lecturers.
- R4L is whatwe’llfocus on and we’ll come back to the programmes soon.
- http://www.eifl.net/Armedconflictdatabase; Oxford handbooks online; Project MUSE and manymore
- www.inasp.infoCambridge Univ Press; EBSCO: Business source premier, Academicsource premier; Emerald management; JSTOR and muchmore
- Became R4L partner program - July 2011
- If you have a citation for an article from a specific journal issue, you first need to locate the journal title by clicking on the appropriate letter from the Find journals by title A-Z list. Then you would be able to access the journal and eventually locate the full-text article in the specific volume and issue.
- N.B. You may have access to some volumes of a journal but not all.