Health Information Resources on the Internet Part B (Advanced Course: Module 4 ) 12 March 2018

Section D Free E-journals Access Directory of Open Access Journals BioMed Central PubMed Central PubMed search options HighWire Press Unpaywall 12 March 2018

Displayed is the Search page of DOAJ - the gateway to almost 10,000 OA journals and 1.7 million articles. Note the access via Subject, Journal Language and Journal Country plus a keyword search tool. Besides listing all Open Access journals, the Directory has an invaluable keyword Search tool. In DOAJ, the full text of ALL content must be available for free and be Open Access without delay (i.e. no embargo period). This is a basic requirement for entry into DOAJ Source: DOAJ 12 March 2018

Displayed is the Journals A-Z listing for BioMed Central Displayed is the Journals A-Z listing for BioMed Central. BMC is a STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher with a large portfolio of peer-reviewed open access journals including many in biology, medicine and health subject areas and also contains a keyword search option. 12 March 2018

PubMed Central PubMed Central (PMC) is an archive of articles that have been deposited in this free repository. Over 4 million articles are available. Access is via journal A-Z listing and keyword searches for articles are entered into the PMC search box. 12 March 2018

Note the access to the Article (HTML) and PDF versions of the article. 12 March 2018

The PubMed database is an excellent source of free full text articles The PubMed database is an excellent source of free full text articles. We will complete the HIV AND pregnancy search. 12 March 2018

In the initial page of the HIV AND pregnancy search results, there are links to Free Article(s) and Free PMC Article(s). In this example, the Free full text available filter has been activated. The search results are 2714 citations. If you keep this filter on, it will limit all future searches to Free full text articles. 12 March 2018

HighWire Press 3 Displayed is the HighWire Press initial page. The Free Access to Developing Economies link is located on this page. Also of interest is the Free full-text content link. There is a link to both pages in the Other Free Collections drop down menu on HINARI’s Full-text Journals, databases and other resources page. 12 March 2018

Now displayed is the Free Access to Developing Economies list of HighWire Press – journals that are available for many HINARI eligible countries. For eligibility, see http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-and-lending-groups#Low_income The access is based on the computer's IP Address and you can go directly to the site using the url. 12 March 2018

Unpaywall is a plug-in (app) for accessing scientific papers for free The content is from numerous open-access repositories including PubMed Central, DOAJ, Crossref licensed information, Google Scholar and BASF. These are PDFs legally loaded by the authors. 12 March 2018

‘Unpaywall was launched in April 2017 by the open source not-for-profit Impactstory – funded by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Install the plug-in on your Chrome or Firefox desktop browser. If the plug-in can find a freely accessible full-text copy of the paper you're looking at, the lock symbol turns from grey to green, and you can click on it to get the PDF. If the lock is gold, the article is already freely available via Open Access. The full-text copies are totally legal.  The plug-in works by scouring a database of over 90 million digital object identifiers (DOIs), looking for publicly accessible copies of papers on pre-press servers and university websites.’ Signe Dean, Science Alert, 21 April 2017 http://www.sciencealert.com/ this-new-browser-plugin-lets-you-access-millions-of-scientific-papers-for-free 12 March 2018

Download the plug-in from unpaywall Download the plug-in from unpaywall.org to either Chrome or Firefox web browsers. 12 March 2018

Note – some of the pdf links do not have the unpaywall icons. Now completed is a Google Scholar (non-Hinari) search for hospital infections and developing countries. Click on the links to view the (full-text) availability and unpaywall icon. Note – some of the pdf links do not have the unpaywall icons. 12 March 2018

The unpaywall plugin has been added to Google Chrome The unpaywall plugin has been added to Google Chrome. Opened is a (Elsevier) Science Direct Open Access article with a link to Download PDF. Note the unlocked (green) Unpaywall icon. 12 March 2018

Now opened is an IJCMPH article Now opened is an IJCMPH article. Note the unpaywall icon and also the link to the Full Text. 12 March 2018

Displayed is the PDF of this article. 12 March 2018

Please note, the app is a useful but not completely reliable tool. This PMC (PubMedCentral repository) article has access to the PDF but green unpaywall icon is not displayed. 12 March 2018

Consumer Health/Patient Education HIV/AIDS, Nutrition Public Health Section E - Health Information Sources by Subject (a very brief sampling) Consumer Health/Patient Education HIV/AIDS, Nutrition Public Health Infectious Diseases 12 March 2018

(US) National Library of Medicine’s Disaster Information Management Research Center is a vast resource dealing with this topic. The left column box contains key subject links. Note the Emergency Access Initiative for post-earthquake Nepal. 12 March 2018

The HIVInSite is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and policy. It is maintained by the University of California San Francisco (USA). 12 March 2018

Eldis has numerous topical resource guides including one on Food Security. See the list in the left hand frame for other nutrition topics of interest. 12 March 2018

Emergency Infectious Diseases is an open access e-journal from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA). It focuses on numerous issues of value to health practitioners in low-income countries. 12 March 2018

The Supercourse is a repository of over 5000 lectures on global health and prevention with many related to public health topics. It is a useful tool for lecturers and students. 12 March 2018

Section F – Grey Literature Search Tools and Additional Resources: Grey Literature Databases Additional Resources LibGuides to Grey Literature Other databases PubMed Pre-formulated Searches Appendix: Dspace (institutional repository application software) 12 March 2018

The WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway comprised of 99 national and international scientific databases and portals. Search hiv AND pregnancy. 12 March 2018

The 2572 search results include journal articles, technical reports, conference papers and other technical information. Some citations will be to commercial publishers’ sites 12 March 2018

The results are divided into Topics, Countries, Authors, Publications, Publishers and Dates. Displayed is the Full Text Available sub-topic. 12 March 2018

Displayed is the search page of the Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations (NDLTD) search page. Note the Advanced search tips. Database has over 4,000,000 documents. 12 March 2018

The results of the climate change AND health search are displayed The results of the climate change AND health search are displayed. Note the Language and Tagged with options. Click on Read more for the full abstract and access to the full-text when available. 12 March 2018

Now displayed is the full abstract with the Links & Documents option. 12 March 2018

Open Grey is a database of 700,000 grey literature references in Europe plus links to many full-text documents - technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations,  conference papers and official publications. 12 March 2018

Results for the hiv AND pregnancy search are displayed Results for the hiv AND pregnancy search are displayed. The results are organized by author, organization, discipline, keyword and year. 12 March 2018

OpenDOAR is a directory of over 2600 academic open access repositories OpenDOAR is a directory of over 2600 academic open access repositories. Click on Search for repositories access page. 12 March 2018

Displayed is the Search for Repositories page Displayed is the Search for Repositories page. Note the Subject Area search tool. 12 March 2018

Displayed is the CORE search tool – an aggregator for accessing open access material. 12 March 2018

Now displayed are the results for HIV and pregnancy Now displayed are the results for HIV and pregnancy. Note the links to Languages and Repositories listings. 12 March 2018

Additional Resources This is the initial page of the Norris Medical Library/U of Southern California Grey Literature Resource Guide. Included are definitions, types of resources with links and guides to searching this literature. 12 March 2018

This is the initial page of the TCU Library Grey Literature Guide This is the initial page of the TCU Library Grey Literature Guide. Included are definitions/types of grey literature and tabs to specific categories of this literature. 12 March 2018

Displayed is the initial page of the Ghana-U of Michigan Collaboration Information Resources. It contains links to free or open access information sources for users in developing countries and is organized via broad subject areas. 12 March 2018

Other Useful Databases United States National Institute of Health (NIH) Databases and Resources - Alphabetical listing of links to all NIH databases and resources; can search by subject wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/nlm_eresources/eresources/search_datab ase.cfm Public Health Databases - Links to FREE public health databases compiled by the Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Project library.umassmed.edu/ebpph/freephdbs.cfm Databases for Research in Health - comprehensive guide to a wide range of research databases in the health sciences. Includes links to global resources for both black and grey literature www.flinders.edu.au/library/fms/pdf/medical/Databases%20for %20research%20in%20health.pdf 12 March 2018

PubMed Pre-formulated Searches PubMed Comparative Effectiveness Research Queries - Pre- formulated filters that search for comparative effectiveness research: resources that can be searched are PubMed, the HSRProj and the ClinicalTrials.gov databases. www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/cer/cerqueries.html PubMed Health Services Research Queries - Specialized PubMed searches on healthcare appropriateness, process and outcomes assessment, cost, qualitative research and quality improvement. www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hedges/search.html Pre-formulated PubMed search strategies for Healthy People 2020 topics - Contains strategies that search high-quality, peer- reviewed scientific literature; topics include access to health services, adolescent health, food safety, genomics, disease topics, and much more. phpartners.org/hp2020/index.html 12 March 2018

Appendix: DSPACE (institutional repository application software) Developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DSPACE (dspace.org) is a free software to build open access repositories - for academic and non-profit organizations. Click on Download Current or Users/Developers drop down menu – for technical instructions. 12 March 2018

From this DSPACE page, you can download the software and documentation plus learn about new features and improvements. 12 March 2018

Displayed is the initial page of Makerere University Institutional Repository (MAKIR). Note the Communities within this repository. 12 March 2018

This is the initial page of the College of Health Sciences Community This is the initial page of the College of Health Sciences Community. Note the various Sub-community – units in the College of Health Sciences. Material also is accessible by Date, Authors, Titles, Subjects and a keyword search tool. 12 March 2018

Karin Saric, MLIS, University of Southern California, (ksaric@usc Karin Saric, MLIS, University of Southern California, (ksaric@usc.edu) assisted with the revision of this module especially the annotated bibliography. This is the end of HINARI Advanced Course Module 4 There is a Work Book to accompany this part of the module. The workbook will take you through a live session covering the topics included in this demonstration with working examples. Updated 2018 03 12 March 2018