COTUL WORKSHOP AND AGM30th 31 October, 2013

MWANZA

Paul S. Munejapmuneja@udsm.ac.tz

0713798947

OPEN ACCESS:REDEFINING IMPACT

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DISCOVERING OA RESOURCES

Contents• OA journals• OA repositories• Open Educational resources

OA journals

SCIRUS

• Most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web

• Access to over 575 million scientific items indexed at last count,

• Allows access to journal contents, scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

SCIRUShttp://www.scirus.com/

• Title: “Animal Preferences and Acceptability of Wildlife Management Actions around National Parks, Tanzania “

• Keywords:– Animal– Wildlife management– National parks– Tanzania

SCIRUS – advanced searchhttp://www.scirus.com/

• Keywords– Community-

based Wildlife management

– Tanzania

Google scholar

• Most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web

• search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions – Create email alerts– Track citations

http://scholar.google.com/

Directory of Open Access Journal• http://www.doaj.org/• Access over 1359606 articles• Browse by

– Title– subject– Country– Licence– Publishing costs

• Search/ advanced search• Keywords

– Wildlife Management AND Africa

Highwire: Free online journals

• Online publication of 2,281,512 free full-text articles

• About 7,090,233 total articles

• http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

• E.g. Environment management

Pubmed Central

• free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

• Title– “Economic and geographic drivers of wildlife consumption in

rural Africa”• Keywords

– Economic AND geographic drivers And wildlife consumption AND Africa

Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)

• Set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers

• Access to more than 3500 key journals & 3300 books to 2500 institutions in 106 countries.

• http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/• Browse by

– Subject, publisher• Search through CAB abstracts• Need to register to access a wide range of full text

Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE)

• Coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers

• Over 4,150 peer reviewed titles (as of 10/2011) owned and published by over 350 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies are now available in more than 100 low income countries

• http://www.unep.org/oare/en/

Public Library of Science

• http://www.plos.org/

• E.g. range management tanzania

Bioline International

• A not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries

• Access journals by– Browsing– Searching

• http://www.bioline.org.br/

Bioline International

• Focuses on – health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases,

epidemiology, emerging new diseases), – biodiversity, – environment, – conservation and – international development

• Journals from Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda and Venezuela

http://www.bioline.org.br/

Bioline

• http://www.bioline.org.br/

• Keywords–Environment Management AND

Tanzania

African Journals Online

• Access to– African Journals:462– Issues:7616 – Abstracts:85110 – Full Text:79272

• http://www.ajol.info/• E.g. Wildlife Management Areas in Tanzania: A

Study of Opportunities and Challenges

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa(PROTA)

• http://www.prota4u.info/• Provides access to scientific information about

utility plants• To synthesise all the information available for

approximately 8,000 plants used in tropical Africa, and make it widely accessible in various media

• Keyword– Baobab

Other free electronic resourcesFree electronic journals

• Annals Internal Medicine http://www.annals.org/ – Provides free access to medical journals

• Bandolier http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/

– It is an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare

Open Access Repositories

To see the repository listing, visit the directorieshttp://opendoar.orghttp://roar.eprints.org

The Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR

• http://opendoar.org/• Search about 2401 repositories across the

worlds• Search

– Repositories contents– Repositories

• Browse– Repositories by location, subject, software used

Opendoar

• http://opendoar.org• Title

– BIODIVERSITY AND WILDLIFE DAMAGE MANAGEMENT

• Keywords– Biodiversity– Wildlife damage management

The OAIster® database

• http://oaister.worldcat.org/

• Available through WorldCat.org at no charge.• Contains records of digital resources from open-archive

collections worldwide.• More than 23 million records representing digital

resources from more than 1,100 contributors.

• Keywords– community-based wildlife management tanzania

e-books

You can also access Free e-books

BIODIVERSITY and CONSERVATIONe-book

• A hypertext Book by Peter J. Bryant on the origin, nature and value of biological diversity, the threats to its continued existence, and approaches to preserving what is left.

• http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/Titlpage.htm

Free books for doctorshttp://www.freebooks4doctors.com/

FreeBooks4Doctors is a gateway with links to 350+ full text e-books.

Free medical books• Anatomy of the Human Body

(Henry Gray) http://www.bartleby.com/

• eMedicine http://www.emedicine.com • NIH- National Institute of Health http://www.nih.gov/icd/index.html

Open educational resources

Open educational resources

• MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm It is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content including health sciences courses. It is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

Open Educational Resources (OER) Africa

• The African Health OER Network provides a platform for you to share your educational materials and debate key issues around the provision of health education in Africa.

• OER Africa is an innovative initiative established by the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE)

• http://www.oerafrica.org/

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