1. Health Information Resources on the Internet Part B (Advanced Course: Module 4 )
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2. Section D Free E-journals Access
Directory of Open Access Journals
BioMed Central
PubMed Central
PubMed search options
HighWire Press
Unpaywall
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3. 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
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4. 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.
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5. 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.
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6. Note the access to the Article (HTML) and PDF versions of the article.
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7. 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.
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8. 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.
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9. 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.
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10. 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
The access is based on the computer's IP Address and you can go directly to the site using the url.
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11. 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.
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12. ‘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
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13. Download the plug-in from unpaywall
Download the plug-in from unpaywall.org to either Chrome or Firefox web browsers.
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14. 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.
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15. 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.
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16. Now opened is an IJCMPH article
Now opened is an IJCMPH article. Note the unpaywall icon and also the link to the Full Text.
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17. Displayed is the PDF of this article.
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18. 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.
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19. 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
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20. (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.
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21. 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).
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22. 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.
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23. 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.
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24. 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.
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25. 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)
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26. The WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway comprised of 99 national and international scientific databases and portals. Search hiv AND pregnancy.
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27. The 2572 search results include journal articles, technical reports, conference papers and other technical information. Some citations will be to commercial publishers’ sites
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28. The results are divided into Topics, Countries, Authors, Publications, Publishers and Dates. Displayed is the Full Text Available sub-topic.
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29. 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.
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30. 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.
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31. Now displayed is the full abstract with the Links & Documents option.
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32. 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.
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33. 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.
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34. OpenDOAR is a directory of over 2600 academic open access repositories
OpenDOAR is a directory of over academic open access repositories. Click on Search for repositories access page.
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35. Displayed is the Search for Repositories page
Displayed is the Search for Repositories page. Note the Subject Area search tool.
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36. Displayed is the CORE search tool – an aggregator for accessing open access material.
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37. 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.
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38. 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.
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39. 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.
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40. 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.
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41. 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 %20research%20in%20health.pdf
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42. 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.
PubMed Health Services Research Queries - Specialized PubMed searches on healthcare appropriateness, process and outcomes assessment, cost, qualitative research and quality improvement.
Pre-formulated PubMed search strategies for Healthy People 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
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43. 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.
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44. From this DSPACE page, you can download the software and documentation plus learn about new features and improvements.
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45. Displayed is the initial page of Makerere University Institutional Repository (MAKIR). Note the Communities within this repository.
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46. 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.
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47. Karin Saric, MLIS, University of Southern California, (ksaric@usc
Karin Saric, MLIS, University of Southern California, 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.
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