USDL, DATAD & AIM @
Providing Online Access to Makerere University’s Research
Institutional, Regional &
International Databases at
Makerere University
USDL:
Uganda Scholarly Digital Library
DATAD: Database of African Thesis And Dissertations
AIM:
African Index Medicus
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Providing Online Access to Makerere University’s Research
USDL
Sharing Research Information
Through
Institutional Repositories
http://dspace.mak.ac.ug
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♣ Uganda Scholarly Digital Library – USDL, is
Makerere University’s Institutional Repository.
♣ Through
USDL,
Makerere
University
collectively shares its research output with the
rest of the world via the Internet
(http://dspace.mak.ac.ug).
♣ It uses the DSpace system to index and
preserve its digital content for users to easily
search and retrieve the information materials.
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♣ Since DSpace is Internet-based, researchers
at Makerere can easily deposit content and
browse the collections from anywhere in the
world.
♣ Besides users visiting the USDL website at
http://dspace.mak.ac.ug, Makerere University’s
research also gains exposure through search
engines, like Google, enabling wider visibility
on the web. This has greatly contributed to the
institutions web rankings.
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♣ At initiation, USDL had a national perspective,
with the objective of fostering collaboration
with other institutions in Uganda. It now
operates at institutional level, but still
encourages other institutions to set up
institutional repositories that would enable
easy sharing of information.
♣ Through outreach, the Library in collaboration
with DICTS, is willing to provide DSpace
consultative support to institutions in Uganda.
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http://www.dspace.org
DSpace is an open source software platform that
can be downloaded free of charge and used to
create digital repositories. Once installed, it is
easy to manage.
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Use either the Simple or the
Advanced Search options to
identify and retrieve information
from USDL.
“My DSpace” is used for
registration & logging onto the
system to upload content
Welcome to Makerere University’s Research Repository
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♣ Document types archived in USDL include:
♣ Journal Articles,
♣ Book Chapters,
♣ Conference Articles,
♣ Thesis & Dissertations (Masters and PhD’s)
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♣ USDL greatly contributes to the institutions web
rankings and the more quality records with fulltext files attached, the better the rankings,
because this contributes to the total number of
rich files that the institution has on the web.
♣ All researchers at Makerere University with any
of the above publications can deposit them into
USDL by registering in the system and
requesting for submission rights using the USDL
administration e-mail: usdl@mulib.mak.ac.ug.
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♣ The Library conducts training & issues out
USDL guides for reference to researchers.
♣ To ensure that information is put online without
violating copyright issues, the repository
managers normally liaise with all authors and
publishers and if possible, obtain self-archiving
licenses for reference within the repository.
♣ Some of the journal publisher self-archiving
policies are provided online for reference by
content submitters in USDL.
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Publisher Copyright & Self-archiving Policies
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Type either the Journal title or the Journal Publishers name in the text box provided and select the
corresponding button before searching for the self-archiving policies needed for all published works.
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Author Self-archiving Policies
Elsevier Publishers
Follow the guidelines provided on the publishers page on the Sherpa Site as you upload journal published
articles into USDL.
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Next Database:
DATAD
DATAD @
Integrating Makerere University’s Research in Africa
DATABASE OF AFRICAN
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
(DATAD)
A programme designed to
improve the management and
access to African scholarly work
DATAD @
Integrating Makerere University’s Research in Africa
• DATAD was initiated by the Association of
African Universities (AAU) to support
efforts towards putting Africa’s research
output on to the mainstream of world
knowledge.
• It was noted that Theses and Dissertations
represent a significant proportion of
Africa’s research activities, thus the need
for a collective database.
• AAU provides leadership and coordination
for capacity building at institutional level.
DATAD @
Integrating Makerere University’s Research in Africa
PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS
• AAU has worked with eleven pioneering
institutions since 1998.
• Makerere University being one of the
pioneer members.
• So far Makerere University has
contributed 3,518 records of Masters and
PhD’s to DATAD, providing the
bibliographic information and abstracts.
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ADDRESS & ACCESS FIELDS
• DATAD is accessed online from
http://www.aau.org/datad/database
• A link to the DATAD website is also provided
on the Library Website
• DATAD can be searched using the following
Access points: Author’s name, Thesis title,
Subjects, Keywords, Type of degree, Date of
completion, African institution name,
Department and supervisor’s name.
DATAD @
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There is only one
Space left between
two or more search
terms/words implies
using the “AND”
Boolean operator
Use the Plus Sign,
with no space in
between for the “OR”
Boolean operator,
e.g.
Education+Finance
The search terms can be an
authors name, title, subject,
keywords, Window
name of an institution,
Search
in DATAD
department, type of degree, year,
or supervisors name.
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Results with Author’s name as search term
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Results with a Subject as the search term
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Results with a Keyword as the search term
DATAD @
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Search by an African Institution Name
Type “Makerere University”
as the institution
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Results with Makerere University
Total records that
contain the terms
Makerere University
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Next Database:
AIM
AIM @
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African Index Medicus
(AIM)
http://indexmedicus.afro.who.int
AIM @
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• AIM is an international database providing
access to African health literature. It is
hosted by the World Health Organisation.
• AIM is a compilation of national databases,
with information collected from national
focal points like Ministries of health,
Faculties of medicine, Public health
schools, Academic & Specialised libraries,
and Research institutes.
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Providing Access to African Health Information
• In Uganda, the College of Health Sciences
and the Albert Cook Medical Library host
a local database (Uganda Health
Literature Database), from which
bibliographic information is sent to the
AIM database.
• One of AIM’s major objectives is to
improve visibility of health and biomedical
research carried out in African countries.
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Providing Access to African Health Information
• The Document types indexed in the AIM
database include health documents
published in, and related to Africa, compiled
from: Journal articles, Technical reports,
Statistical reports, and monographs.
• Some of the information in the AIM
database is gray literature (as provided from
research findings), while some of it is
published and linked to the full-text
documents.
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Total records with Uganda as a key word = 899
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Record with an abstract and the Full Text attached
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Record with no abstract or Full Text attached
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