INASP/CSC Workshop: Accessing Information in Developing Countries - Exercise
The objective of the exercise is to gain experience of accessing the variety of electronic resources that are available in your subject area and share experience with your colleagues.
We have 1 hour 15 minutes to work individually or in pairs on the computers, guided by this worksheet.
We will then have 45 minutes to discuss in the group which resources we found useful, strengths and weaknesses, etc.
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Read through the descriptions of the example fulltext journals, scholarly databases, information gateways and free resources listed below.
Choose at least one of each type that might be useful in your subject area.
Go to the resource web site and log in using the temporary usernames and passwords given below.
For each resource consider the following questions:
 Is it easy to use?
 Does it have effective help/guidance for users?
 Does it contain information which is relevant to you?
 What do you think of the quality of the information you found?
 What problems, if any, did you encounter?
 Would you recommend this resource to colleagues?
Why? Why not?
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INASP/CSC Workshop: Accessing Information in Developing Countries - Exercise
2.1.1 Blackwells Synergy
Contains : over 750 leading learned journals
Subjects : all life sciences, medicine/health, ecology, veterinary science, accountancy and economics, cultural studies (especially Asian, African and Australian studies, international studies), development issues, social policy, law, history, management studies
Web site : http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/
Temporary username : inaspdemo
Temporary password : inaspdemo
2.1.2 Oxford University Press
Contains : over 160 leading titles
Subjects : biological sciences, medicine, public health and epidemiology, humanities, social sciences, law, economics, business, finance, mathematics, statistics, computing and physics
Web site : http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/
Temporary username : peri
Temporary password : csctemp
2.1.3 Emerald
Contains : over 120 (world's widest range) management and library & information science journals
Subject strengths : management, library and information sciences, marketing, engineering, computer science
Web site : http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ (then click on ‘Emerald Journals’ in top right hand corner)
Temporary username : sgwynn
Temporary password : inasp
2.1.4 Mary Anne Leibert
Contains : 55 authoritative publications
Subjects : biomedical research, clinical medicine, surgery, law and science
Web site : http://www.liebertpub.com/
Temporary username : csctemp
Temporary password : csctemp
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INASP/CSC Workshop: Accessing Information in Developing Countries - Exercise
2.2.1 EBSCO Host
Contains : 8 databases which contain over 16,500 journals. Over 10,400 of these are available as full text with over 4,000 being fully peer-reviewed.
Subjects : all branches of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities
Web site : http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?authtype=uid
Temporary username : inasp
Temporary password : training
2.3.1 Pinakes
Contains : links to over 50 separate subject-based information gateways
Subjects : all subject areas
Web site : http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
Temporary username : not necessary (freely available to everyone)
Temporary password : not necessary (freely available to everyone)
Contains : examples of high-quality free resources
Subjects : agriculture, biology, life sciences, chemistry, engineering, technology, environment, information & communication technologies, mathematics, statistics, medicine, health sciences, physics, general sciences, social sciences
Web site : http://www.inasp.info/peri/free.html
Temporary username : not necessary (freely available to everyone)
Temporary password : not necessary (freely available to everyone)
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Having sampled the various resources available be prepared to share your views and comments with the whole group. Also feel free to discuss any other resources you have used or found useful in the past.
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