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 packagesoutline content and demonstrations Hands-on sessionsdetailed 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 non- profit 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

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

Current awareness resources available through PERI…

PERI current awareness African Journals OnLine (AJOL) –TOCs and abstracts of 120+ African journals British LibraryInside 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 journals (including 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 –worlds 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 , time based searches) Different user interfaces, details and functions Worth spending some time with system familiarisation prior to information seeking

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