Electronic Resources
Available Through PERI
Objectives
• To get an overview of the PERI
programme
• To increase familiarity with selected
PERI resources
• To gain experience which may help with
future acquisitions and resource use
Demonstration and trial
• Quick overview of all resources
available
• Detailed presentation of selected
packages—outline content and
demonstrations
• Hands-on sessions—detailed
experience with the selected packages
• Will present and do hands-on exercises
two packages at a time
Access to PERI resources
• CCs, research community and INASP
identify resource requirements
• INASP negotiates access to as many
required resources as possible
• Cost of resources is related to the GDP
of the country (98% discounts!)
Licenses etc
• Nearly all of the resources are available on a
country-wide licence basis
– i.e. available to all educational, research or nonprofit environments within the country
• BUT each institution within the country needs
to register itself
– Allows you to get institute specific usage stats
• Details for each resource given at
http://www.inasp.info/peri/resources.html
Types of resource available
through PERI
• Current awareness services
– abstracts, bibliographic databases, ToCs,
current awareness gateways
• Full-text online journals and databases
• Listing of free online resources
Full details of all resources at
www.inasp.info/peri/resources.html
Current awareness resources
available through PERI…
PERI current awareness
• African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
– TOCs and abstracts of 120+ African journals
• British Library—Inside Web
– discovery/bibliographic tool enabling searching of
Table of Contents of 20,000 leading research
journals
• CAB and CAB-Health
– available online and as CD-ROM, through
Silverplatter
PERI current awareness cont…
• EBSCO
– Includes over 7,000 journals in the
following databases:Academic Search
Premier, Business Source, Premier, Health
Source Plus
MasterFILE
• Ovid technologies (SilverPlatter)
– indexing & abstracting databases:Pascal
SciTech, Pascal Biomed, MEDLINE+,
FRANCIS
Online full-text journals and
databases available through
PERI
PERI full-text (1)
• AJOL
– print copies available from INASP
• Academic Press (IDEAL)
– 300+ Core full text scientific, technical and medical
journals
– now only available via OCLC to previous PERI
subscribers
• Blackwell Publishers (Synergy)
– 600+ science, technology, medicine, social
science and humanities journals
PERI full-text (2)
• The Cochrane Library
– critical reviews, abstracts and trials
– Database of Systematic Reviews; Abstracts of
Reviews of Effectiveness; Controlled Trials
Register and Health Technology Assessments;
Economic Evaluation Database
• EBSCO Host
– 4 databases of journals and ERIC and Medline
bibliographic databases containing 7000+ journals
(including 6000+ full text)
PERI full-text (3)
• Gale (Thomson Learning)
– Academic ASAP research database (1200
titles); Health and Wellness Resource
Centre
• Institute of Physics Publishing
– 36 physics and related discipline journals
• MCB/Emerald
– world’s widest range of LIS journals
PERI full text (4)
• Oxford University Press
– 120 titles in science, technology, medicine,
humanities and social sciences
• Royal Society Journals Online
– biological and physical sciences, including
Philosophical Transactions
• Springer
– over 400 titles in the LINK service
Summary
• PERI programme contains a range of
resources and packages
• A range of content and subject coverage –
but often some overlap
These resources have
• Core common functionality
– searchable
– browseable
– information updates (TOC by email, time
based searches)
• Different user interfaces, details and
functions
• Worth spending some time with system
familiarisation prior to information seeking
Thank you
Any questions?