1. OARE Module 7:
Research4Life Training Materials
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2. Table of Contents Research4Life training portal sections:
About Research4Life
Authorship Skills
Reference Management Tools
Program Specific Training
Other Resources
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3. Additional Inter-programme Training Material
In August 2014, the inter-programme training material was moved to a new Research4Life training portal:
This portal contains material related Research4Life activities such as authorship skills, reference management software, marketing, etc. These modules can be adapted for use at your institution.
The OARE training material (updated approximately once per year) is located at:
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4. Displayed is the new Research4Life Training portal
Displayed is the new Research4Life Training portal. All the inter-program training material plus information about courses and workshops information is located on this page – in six sections.
Note the two sections on this page – About Research4Life and Authorship Skills.
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5. The other four sections of the Research4Life Training resources are displayed in this slide.
The next 5 slides display specific sections of this resource.
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6. Highlighted in this section are a Research4Life Training Overview (for presentations) and R4L Similarities and Differences PPTs (for workshops).
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7. This page contains a series of Authorship Skills presentations and exercises:
How to Read a Scientific Paper, How to Write a Scientific Paper, Copyright & Plagiarism, Strategies for Effective Writing, Web- Bibliography and Frequently Asked Questions.
For researchers and post-graduate students, these resources are invaluable. In the web-bibliography, there are links to 75+ useful websites covering all publishing related topics - including Authoraid ( a site ‘supporting developing country researchers in publishing their work.’
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8. Highlighted in this section are three Reference Management Tools – Mendeley Basic (available to all users), Zotero (open source option) and EndNote Basic – how to access, download and use these resources.
Zotero (Open source linked to Firefox web browser) and Mendeley (the basic version) are available to individuals from eligible and non-R4L eligible countries. The presentations review how to download the software and use the numerous options – to create footnotes and develop bibliographies in the multiple formats required by publishers (e.g. APA, Harvard, Vancouver styles). These tools are invaluable to researches and advanced students.
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9. This section contains the links to the specific programmes’ training material for AGORA, ARDI, HINARI and OARE. Displayed in the next three slides are the links to the OARE training material.
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10. Note - from the initial OARE webpage, you can view/download training modules using the < > symbols.
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11. From the OARE Content page, click on Training Materials
From the OARE Content page, click on Training Materials. This is the location of all the training files - updated approximately once per year.
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12. Displayed is the OARE Training Materials page with links to PowerPoint and PDF versions of the modules plus the exercises .doc
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13. Highlighted in the Other Resources section are the Marketing Strategies, Information Literacy and Strategies for Managing Change presentations – that apply to all the programs.
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14. The Media Center page has additional useful resources
The Media Center page has additional useful resources. These are about the Research4Life programmes. – ‘Marketing Material’ & ‘Promote your library’. They can be downloaded and customized to be used at workshops, presentations, etc.
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15. Exercises
There are no exercises for this module.
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