Bridging the Gap: Role of a Librarian in ELearning

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Bridging the Gap Role of a Librarian in
E-Learning Building the Information Society
Farah Naz Cheema Chief Librarian Fatima Jinnah
Medical College/Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Lahore,
Pakistan
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Electronic Library?

• Any library or information resources that can be
  accessed electronically, e.g.
• Electronic journals
• Scholarly databases
• Electronic books
• Hybrid digital collections
• Internet gateways, search engines and general
  online information
• Free or fee-based access

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Extent of Electronic Resources

• Huge volume of data and information
• 4 billion Web pages and counting!
• Huge range of electronic journal titles and
  subject areas
• 20,000 titles
• Most major international titles are now available
  electronically and the number is increasing all
  of the time
• Increasing and expanding databases and electronic
  data sets scholarly databases

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Why Use Electronic Journals?

• An up-to-date resource
• Convenience
• Extra features e.g. search facilities, links to
  other databases, supplementary information
• Access to a wider range of material than might
  otherwise be available through your local library

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Electronic Journal Formats

• Full-text - whole journal available
• Electronic version of print
• Electronic only
• Partial full-text - selected articles only
• Table of contents/abstracts only

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Higher Education Commission

• INASP
• PERI

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About INASP

• Established in 1992
• Co-operative network of partners
• Aims to improve world-wide access to information
  and knowledge through a commitment to capacity
  building in developing and transitional countries

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Activities

• Advisory and liaison services
• Facilitation of publishing support initiatives
• Facilitation of library support initiatives
• Facilitation of Programme for the Enhancement of
  Research Information (PERI)
• Publications

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A Quick Overview of PERI

• Programme for the Enhancement of Research
  Information.
• A four-component programme
• Component 1 Delivering information
• Component 2 Disseminating national and regional
  research
• Component 3 Enhancing ICT skills
• Component 4 Strengthening publishing

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Summary

• PERI programme in Pakistan contains a range of
  information 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 email,
  time based searches)
• Different user interfaces, details and functions

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Objectives

• To promote the electronic library resources to
  library audience
• To promote e-learning in the society
• To enhance the library usage in an electronic
  environment
• To promote remote electronic delivery of
  information

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Resources Available at Fatima Jinnah Medical
College/Sir GangaRam Hospital Library through PERI
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Electronic Journals

• African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
• 200 African journals (TOCs and abstracts) in all
  subject areas
• Blackwell Publishers (Synergy)
• 600 full text journals in science, technology,
  medicine, social science and humanities journals
• Mary Ann Liebert
• 53 full text journals in science, technology and
  medicine

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Electronic Journals

• Oxford University Press
• 120 full text journals in science, technology,
  medicine, humanities and social sciences
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• 21 full text journals in chemistry key
  databases plus a series of online specialist
  periodical reports
• Springer
• 413 full text journals in science, technology and
  medicine

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Electronic Journals

• Bentham Science
• Access to 41 leading journals in science,
  particularly biomedical sciences, biochemistry,
  pharmacology, and biotechnology

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Databases

• CAB and CAB-Health
• Abstracting/indexing databases, CD-Rom and Online
  compendia. Subjects agriculture, health
  medicine, forestry and crop protection, animal
  health resources
• EBSCO
• Full text journals plus abstracted journals
  database
• Access to over 10,000 titles over 6,000
  available in full text. All subject areas

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Document Delivery (DD)

• African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
• TOCs and abstracts of 200 African journals
• British Library - Inside Web
• Discovery/bibliographic tool enabling searching
  of Table of Contents of 20,000 leading research
  journals
• DD available via Standard Service, discounted
  rates via central account/administration

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Training Program for Library Staff and Medical
Professionals

• Library Staff Training
• Inter-Library staff training
• Library Patrons Training
• Workshops
• Demonstrations
• Hands on Trainings

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• How to use internet
• National available electronic resources
• WHO virtual health sciences library
• Internationally available resources

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Blackwell Synergy full-text online journals
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Content available

• Access to just over 600 leading learned journals
  in science, technology, medicine, social sciences
  and humanities
• Subject Strengths
• All life sciences, medicine/health, ecology,
  accountancy and economics, cultural studies
  (especially Asian studies, African studies,
  Australian studies, international studies),
  development issues, history, management studies,
  social policy

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Getting started

• Load Synergy homepage
• Can access all content to abstracts
• Need to authenticate (IP recognition or login
  using appropriate details) to gain full text
  access

http//www.blackwell-synergy.com/
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Homepage
Link for Search facility
The way journals are listed can be changed so you
can view them by subject or in an A-Z format.
QuickLink feature enables readers to find
particular issues or pages immediately. Simply
enter the Vol. Issue and Page numbers you need
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List of Issues Page
QuickSearch facility allows you to search in all
journals, or just this one.
Link to further information, such as submitting a
paper, editorial board details and aims and
scopes.
Click to link to the Issue you want. Expanding
list of issues keeps page size to a minimum.
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Table of Contents Page
QuickSearch facility available again, this time
to issue level.
Users can choose between viewing the Abstract,
Full text PDF or Full text HTML.
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Article level features
Easy to use navigation bar allows one click
access to other parts of the issue.
QuickSearch will now search in either Synergy or
PubMed for the keywords or authors names
selected.
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Images in HTML
To save loading time, images are shown as a
thumbnail preview.
To enlarge the image, simply click on it, and it
will pop up in a separate browser window.
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Searching
Simple and Advanced search facility using Boolean
parameters. Users can search all journals, or a
subset.
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Searching continued..
Search again within your Search Results to find
the exact information youre looking for.
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How Synergy can be incorporated into handouts.
Authorised users may Incorporate parts of the
Licensed Material in printed or electronic Course
or Study packs for the use of Authorised Users
in the course of instruction. Each such item
shall carry appropriate acknowledgement of the
source, listing title and author of extract,
title and author of work, and publisher. Copies
of such items shall be deleted by the licensee
when they are no longer required for such purpose.

• URLs can be copied and pasted into emails to
  students.
• Articles may be printed and included in
  handouts.
• The license states

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Personalisation of Synergy

• Register as a My Synergy user this provides
  access to additional functionality
• e-mail table of contents alerts
• save searches and results for use later
• Automatic re-run of searches and email results
• create 'hot-links' to your favourite journals and
  articles

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Further reading

• Searching help
• http//www.blackwell-synergy.com/help_pages/search
  ing.htm
• Advanced search
• http//www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent
  ?funcshowSearchtypeadvanced
• General help
• http//www.blackwell-synergy.com/help_pages/help_c
  ontents.htm

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EBSCO Host databases and full-text online journals
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Service EBSCO

• Name of service EBSCO Host
• License in place country-wide access for all
  eligible institutions in Pakistan
• Service type online databases of journals and
  other learned content (CDs available for all
  institutes)

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Content available

• EBSCO through PERI provides access to 7 databases
  of information which can be searched
  individually, in selected groups or altogether.
• The databases provide access to just over 7,300
  abstracted and indexed journals from all branches
  of science, technology, medicine, social sciences
  and humanities. Over 6,000 of these are available
  as full text with over 4,000 of these being fully
  peer-reviewed.

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Content continued

• The Databases which you can access under the PERI
  programme are
• (i) Academic Search Premier, (ii) Business Source
  Premier, (iii) ERIC, (iv) Masterfile Premier, (v)
  Newspaper Source, (vi) Health Source Nursing
  Academic, (vii) Health Source Consumer Edition
• Subject strengths
• good coverage of most branches of social sciences
  and humanities
• strong business coverage
• dedicated newspaper database, kept separate from
  peer-reviewed content

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Getting started

• Load EBSCO homepage
• Need to authenticate (IP recognition or login
  using appropriate details) to gain access

http//search.epnet.com/
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Select the databases that you are interested in
searching and working with. The more databases
you select, the larger the body of data you will
work with.
It is strongly advised that you familiarise
yourself with each of the databasesmore
information is available in the brief
descriptions on this page or by following the
links to further information.
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The search page presents you with a simple search
interface enter your search terms in the box
provided. A useful start (before searching) is to
read through the Search Tips
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Search results are presented with links to the
abstract or through to the full text articles.
When more than one choice of full text is
available then you will be given the option of
which to choose HTML full text is nearly always
quicker to download
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You can also add this item to your folder for
later viewing, print the abstract and/or the full
text item, email the reference and/or full text
article to a given email address, or save the
reference and/or full text article.
The abstract of the paper in question is
presented with links through to the full text
articles
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Using standard PDF file functionality, you can
save the file (by clicking on the floppy disk
icon) or print the file (by clicking the printer
icon). You can also change the resolution of the
PDF, move between pages, search for words within
the PDF file (using the binoculars icon), etc.
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Further reading

• Librarians help
• Administering usage stats etc
• http//www.epnet.com/academic/eadmin.asp
• Lots of help documents available by
• clicking on Customer Service and Technical
  Support
• then choosing Training and Documentation tab

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Oxford University Press Journals Collection Online
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ServiceOxford Journals Online

• License in place country-wide to all eligible
  institutions in Pakistan
• Each institution needs to register at
• http//www3.oup.co.uk/cgi-bin/cs/dev
• complete online form
• click accept button to auto send to OUP
• OUP will send info needed for user access

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Content available

• Service type online database of journals
• Over 120 leading titles in science, technology,
  medicine, humanities and social sciences
• Subject strengths
• Medicine, neurology and neuroscience, oncology
• life sciences, esp. biochemistry, genetics,
  molecular biology 
• area studies
• law
• history
• political sciences 
• philosophy
• business and economics

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Getting started

• Load OUP home page

• http//www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/

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Homepage
Link for advanced search facility
Link for Quick search facility
You can navigate around the site using either
this Navigate to.. feature or by using the
tool bar at the left hand side of the page
The way journals are listed can be changed so you
can view them by subject or in an A-Z format.
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Journal home page
Click to search for specific articles from this
journal
Facility to view current issue.
Link to further information, such as submitting a
paper, editorial board details and aims and
scopes.
Feature allowing automatic email notification of
table of contents from the journal
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Table of contents page
QuickSearch facility available again, this time
to search at issue level.
Users can choose between viewing the abstract or
full text PDF
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Log in to get access to articles
Help with forgotten passwords and activating your
subscription is available here
Put in your user name and password here. Details
available from your librarian
Information on how to subscribe or pay for
articles is available here
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Advanced searching
Advanced search facility using keywords and
Boolean AND and OR operators.
Specify which journals you want to search
You can specify volume or issue number and which
years to search
Or specify which subject area you would like to
search
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Content alerting
Choose which journals you wish to receive ToCs of
from list
Enter you email address to receive free email
alerts with tables of contents lists
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Further reading

• Information for librarians available at
• includes info on usage stats, support material,
  subscriptions, FAQs
• http//www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/librarians/
• General help
• http//www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/help/

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Any Questions?