1. Contents Module 6: E-journal, E-books and Internet Resources
Module 6A: Background; Free E-journals Access
Module 6B: Free E-book Access
Module 6C: Environment Gateways/Portals
Module 6D: Other Useful Resources
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2. Other Useful Resources (a brief sampling)
Google Custom Searches
NDLTD
Open Grey
OpenDOAR
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
Dgroups
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3. In Google, type Intergovernmental Organization Search Engine - resources for students, faculty, researchers and officials. Displayed are the results of deforestation AND climate control search.
Note this and the next search are Google Custom Searches with huge results based on relevancy ranking. Users will need to be selective.
This is a tool to access ‘grey literature’ from intergovernmental organizations – material outside of the ‘peer reviewed’/journal world. Many of the links could be useful for practical (applied) projects, policy development and research (from unpublished projects). To decide if a search’s results are useful, read the summary and the url (web address).
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4. In Google, type Non-governmental organization Search Engine
In Google, type Non-governmental organization Search Engine. Resources for students, faculty, researchers and officials. See results of environmental impact AND deforestation search.
See notes from previous slide; the same applies for Non-governmental organizations’ information.
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5. Displayed is the search page of the Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations (NDLTD) search page. Note the Advanced search tips. Databases has over 4,000,000 documents.
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6. The 2844 results for 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.
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7. Now displayed is the full abstract with the Links & Documents option.
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8. 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. Search urban areas AND air pollution.
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9. 131 results for the urban areas AND air pollution search are displayed
131 results for the urban areas AND air pollution search are displayed. The results are organized by author, organization, discipline, keyword and year.
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10. 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 repository contents.
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11. In the Search Repository Contents page, search sewage disposal and developing countries.
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12. The 538,000 results of the sewage disposal AND developing countries are displayed – including many research results and peer reviewed articles.
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13. The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) can be used to identify environment related material. Search heavy metals AND children.
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14. In BASE, 1420 citations have been identified for this search and are organized by Relevance. Note the other Refine Search Results options
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15. In BASE abstracts, Open Access (when available) is noted.
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16. Displayed is the PDF for this Open Access article – from the PubMed Central repository.
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17. Dgroups is a resource for international development discussion groups
Dgroups is a resource for international development discussion groups. Join the groups that interest you.
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18. Below is the link to the registration process
Below is the link to the registration process. To join groups, you need to be registered.
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19. Displayed is the list Sub-communities
Displayed is the list Sub-communities. Scroll down the list for environment related groups,
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20. This is a example of an environmental-related dgroup.
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21. Exercises This is the end of the OARE Basic Course Module 6D.
Complete Module 6 exercises # in the accompanying OARE exercises document
Updated: August 2017
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