1. E-Literature at ITM: Access home & abroad Dirk Schoonbaert, ITM Library, 25/11/2014

2. Knowledge base UpToDate: e.g. “ebola”, “malaria”, … Within the text: 1 or more references => PubMed (= bibliographic database, outside of UptoDate). Links to full-text: open access (e.g. PLoS), PubMed Central, subscribed content [?] or no link at all [?] => ITM Library website: http://lib.itg.be/.http://lib.itg.be Reference list, e.g. at the end of an article: more or less the same, often no clickable link, just a reference => ITM Library website: http://lib.itg.be/. 2 Examples

3. Lancet: e-subscription (1995- ) [but print: 1945- ]. Lancet Infectious Diseases; Lancet Global Health (OA); But not: Lancet Neurology; Lancet Oncology); … NEJM (1993- ), Clinical Infectious Diseases (1997-), … AJTMH: subscription; includes full collection (1921- ). TM&IH: hybrid model: OA after a 12 month embargo. Medline with Full Text: 0 to 24 months embargo. Open access: DOAJ, PLoS, BMC [= BioMed Central], … 3 E-Journals http://lib.itg.be/journals.htmhttp://lib.itg.be/journals.htm

4. Collections: Books@ovid, Ebsco Clinical eBooks, Expert Consult, MyiLibrary, ITGPress, Springer, … Many options: buy once, annual subscription, open access, large vs. small, full vs. limited access, … E-Books list: small selection of individual examples. ITM Library Catalog: over 2,600 individual e-books. ITM Discovery Service: many more, e.g. > 2,000 Ebsco clinical e-books – but also: 28,000 library print books (evidently, most are without digital full text). 4 E-Books http://lib.itg.be/ebooks.htmhttp://lib.itg.be/ebooks.htm

5. 12 ITM Library databases: 5 catalogs + 7 thematic. ITG Staff Publications (also: TropMed Central Antwerp). ITM’s Discovery Service: combines all ITM e-resources! AtoZ list of over 10,000 e-journals open to ITM. PubMed ( + PubMed Central: open access full text). ISI Web of Knowledge: multidisciplinary citation analysis. Incl. JCR = Journal Citation Reports: impact factors. UpToDate: clinical knowledge base. 5 Databases http://lib.itg.be/datab.htmhttp://lib.itg.be/datab.htm

6. VPN login from outside ITM: http://e-lib.itg.be/ Essential: a valid ITM network account! [not managed by the ITM library].http://e-lib.itg.be/ ITM library document delivery: docdel@itg.be. HINARI: http://www.who.int/hinari/en/.http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ Selected theme websites: http://lib.itg.be/weblinks/tropical-medicine.php. http://lib.itg.be/weblinks/tropical-medicine.php Reading, writing, information retrieval, open access, bibliometrics: http://lib.itg.be/journals.htm.http://lib.itg.be/journals.htm Courses@work: PhD session on 29/01/15. 6 Additional e-resources