Maghreb Virtual Science Library Morocco

CRDF Global Not-for-profit, non-governmental Authorized by the U.S. Congress Established by the National Science Foundation Fifteen years of international science programs

CRDF Global’s Virtual Science Library Program Strengthens existing systems Negotiates new journal subscriptions to meet community needs Adds advanced searching capabilities Transfers expertise through workshops Improves the usage & impact of scientific information resources Promotes the international visibility of a nation’s research CRDF Global has 4 existing Virtual Science Library programs

Maghreb Virtual Science Library Funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Oceans Environment and Science Will support all Maghreb countries Objectives 1.Promote regional and international collaboration 2.Enhance access to scientific information throughout the Maghreb 3.Increase international visibility of national research 4.Leverage new technologies to support collaboration

Program Components Technology Innovative open- source technology to strengthen knowledge access and provide a platform for collaboration Training Effective training-of-trainers programs to support librarians, faculty, researchers, and students to maximize usage and impacts Visibility Enhanced dissemination of national research to the international community through open-access journals and research repositories Slide 4 of 10 Access Easy-to-use access to the world’s leading scientific and technical publications at sustainable costs

Students, faculty and researchers at Moroccan universities have access to the following subscription-based journal databases:

JSTOR is a not-for-profit archiving service for academic journals Content is available in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences Multidisciplinary and disciplinary specific archive collections There are about 200 journals in the growing current collections database Content dates back to 1665 Full-text access to all articles 1,980 titles

HINARI is a World Health Organization program that provides online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences AGORA is a Food and Agriculture Organization program that provides access to a digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences OARE is a United Nations Environmental Program initiative that provides access to online resources in environmental science research Full-text access to content from major international scientific publishers 8,000 titles

Access to all of the journal databases listed above is to the full text of the articles within each collection. Students, faculty and researchers at Moroccan universities have access to the following open-access, free journal databases:

DOAJ is a service that provides access to quality-controlled open-access journals Open access journals use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access Peer-review quality control Research journals that report primary results of research Published regularly All scientific and scholarly subjects Full-text access to all articles Publications from academic, government, commercial, and not-for-profit organizations All content is free 6,000 titles

Diversifying the Collection

3 ways of accessing scientific articles online: 1 sciencedirect.com jstor.org who.int/hinari aginternetwork.org oaresciences.org doaj.org 2 scholar.google.com 3 MVSL Morocco 12 3

1. Visit the website of each publisher PROS Fast, if you know exactly the author, article, and journal 1 CONS Very slow for retrieving articles from multiple publishers Doesn’t show articles from other publishers Hides new journal subscriptions purchased by the consortium 3 ways of accessing scientific articles online :

2. Search PROS A 90% accurate view of last 20 years of published articles Some articles available as a full text preprint from the institutional repository of the author 2 CONS Few articles available as full text Variable quality of articles (may not be peer=reviewed) Incomplete coverage before ways of accessing scientific articles online :

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A search platform designed to give students and researchers the most efficient and effective access to online scientific resources….

3. Search PROS Searches across all subscribed, and open-access journals Search results are returned according to relevance All results are full-text access All results are from high-quality, peer-reviewed journals Save and retrieve complex searches and collections of articles Newly available journals appear automatically 3 CONS Only articles with full-text access are shown 3 ways of accessing scientific articles online :

For example, if I want to search for content on the topic of entomology

is a one-window search for full text articles across all of the journal providers :

DOAJ Publication Elsevier Publication

Live demonstration of the platform temporary domain: libhub.sempertool.dk libhub.sempertool.dk

Coming soon to MVSL Morocco… New content Workshops for students, researchers, administrators, and trainers Integration of university library catalogues Colleagues and Collaborators Functionality Remote access Authorship Training

The platform is provided to universities in Morocco through a partnership between IMIST-CNRST and CRDF Global and it will be available at after 15 March 2011.

Contact Information: For Morocco University Consortium Information: M. Essadaoui-IMIST For Maghreb Virtual Science Library Information: Dr. Charles Dunlap-CRDF Global For MVSL Morocco Information: Ms. Nadia Haven-CRDF Global