Online databases and search engines for bibliographic information, journals, books, theses, reports, grey literature, etc



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ONLINE DATABASES AND SEARCH ENGINES FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION, JOURNALS, BOOKS, THESES, REPORTS, GREY LITERATURE, ETC.

Access these resources through the links below. Some are also available through the icipe Library Intranet: http://intranet.icipe.org:8000/intranet/


Please report any problems with accessing these resources to Mr. Joash Lago (icipe library): jlago@icipe.org


  1. AFRICA DEVELOPMENT FORUM - OPEN KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY

The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Through the OKR, The World Bank collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form. The OKR also increases the range of people who can discover and access Bank content—from governments and civil society organizations (CSOs), to students and the general public.

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2150/discover?order=desc&rpp=10&sort_by=dc.date.issued_dt&page=1&group_by=none&etal=0


  1. AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) – part of Research4Life

An initiative to provide free or low-cost access to major scientific journals in agriculture and related biological, environment and social sciences. Currently AGORA provides access to over 600 journals from the world's leading academic publishers.

http://www.aginternetwork.org Username: ag-ken155 Password: nkucryphyby


  1. AGRICOLA (USDA National Agricultural Library Citation Database)

Bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.

http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/ Open access


  1. ANNUAL REVIEWS (Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information Phase ii [PERii] resource)

Annual Reviews publications operate as a high quality filter, prioritising and synthesising the primary research literature in 33 different disciplines for the Biomedical, Life, Physical and Social Sciences. The Annual Review of Entomology is included.

http://www.annualreviews.org Access is IP enabled


  1. ARDI (Access to Research for Development and Innovation) – part of Research4Life

Currently, 17 publishers provide access to around 20,000 journals, books, and reference works for 117 developing countries and territories through ARDI. (Note: icipe does not have access to most of the Elsevier journals in ARDI, but they can be accessed through ScienceDirect –see below).

http://ardi.wipo.int/ Username: ardi-ke022 Password: 8y287tpf


  1. ARMED FORCES PEST MANAGEMENT BOARD

Contains pdfs of published articles for prevention and management of disease vectors and pests. Includes archival materials.

http://www.afpmb.org/content/search-afpmborg Open access


  1. BIELEFELD ACADEMIC SEARCH ENGINE (BASE) search engine

BASE is a search engine primarily for academic open access web resources. A resource of over 2600 academic open access repositories, BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library (Germany). Initial search results are organized by relevancy with tools to further refine searches. The search results citations include links to the full-text documents.

www.base-search.net Open access


  1. BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. BHL is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” BHL has digitized millions of pages of taxonomic literature, representing nearly 100,000 titles and over 160,000 volumes.

www.biodiversitylibrary.org Open access


  1. BIOMED CENTRAL

BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) publisher of 260+ peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine and includes broad interest titles, such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, alongside specialist journals, such as Retrovirology and BMC Genomics. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely accessible online immediately upon publication.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/ Open access


  1. BioONE ONLINE JOURNALS

BioOne provides access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

http://www.bioone.org/ Username: library@icipe.org Password: dudulibrary

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  1. CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International)

This site provides free access to full articles articles and reports published by CABI scientists.

http://www.cabi.org/cso Open Access


  1. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Over 200 leading titles in Linguistics, Politics, Medicine, Science, Technology, Social Science and Humanities (including: International Journal of Tropical Insect Science by icipe)

http://journals.cambridge.org Access is IP enabled


  1. CITESEERX search engine

CiteSeerX is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerX aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge. Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeerX attempts to provide resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promote other digital libraries. CiteSeerX has developed new methods and algorithms to index PostScript and PDF research articles on the Web.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index Open Access

  1. COCHRANE LIBRARY (PERii resource)

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases in medicine and other healthcare specialties provided by the Cochrane Collaboration and other organizations. At its core is the collection of Cochrane Reviews, a database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses that summarize and interpret the results of medical research. The Cochrane Library aims to make the results of well-conducted controlled trials readily available and is a key resource in evidence-based medicine.

http://www.cochranelibrary.com/


  1. DIGITAL COMMONS NETWORK

Digital Commons is the leading hosted institutional repository software for universities, colleges, law schools, and research centers. A Digital Commons repository showcases the breadth of scholarship produced at an institution - everything from faculty papers, student scholarship, and annual reports to open-access journals, conference proceedings, and monographs. Scholarly material and special collections in Digital Commons repositories are highly discoverable in Google, Google Scholar, and other search engines. Additionally, articles in Digital Commons repositories are indexed in the Digital Commons Network, a free discovery tool for full text scholarly articles used by researchers worldwide.

http://network.bepress.com/ Open Access


  1. DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS BOOKS (DOAB)

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books, provided that the publications are in the Open Access domain and meet academic standards.

www.doabooks.org Open Access



  1. DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS (DOAJ)

DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

www.doaj.org Open Access


  1. DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES (OPENDOAR)

OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.

http://www.opendoar.org/ Open Access

To search the OpenDOAR content go to http://www.opendoar.org/search.php




  1. EBSCO HOST (PERii resource)

Includes the following databases: ERIC, Medline (enhanced), Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Health Source Plus MasterFILE.

http://search.epnet.com Access is IP enabled OR Username: s6582669 Password: password




  1. EDUCATION RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)

Access to more than 1.4 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials.

http://eric.ed.gov/ Open Access


  1. EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING

Access to over 100 titles of management and library information services journals. The service also provides access to leading titles in marketing, business disciplines, engineering and materials science

http://www.emeraldinsight.com Access is IP enabled


  1. FREE.FULL.PDF

Download over 80 million free scientific publications: Article, thesis, patent, poster

http://www.freefullpdf.com/index.html#gsc.tab=0 Open Access


  1. GALE (THOMSON LEARNING) (PERii resource)

http://infotrac.london.galegroup.com/itweb/icipe


  1. Global Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Search

Resource for finding electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from universities around the world.

http://search.ndltd.org/ Open Access


  1. GOOGLE BOOKS

Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books.

https://books.google.co.ke/bkshp?hl=en&tab=pp Open Access


  1. GOOGLE SCHOLAR search engine

By providing a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature, Google Scholar is perhaps the best place to start when looking for a specific article or when starting a literature search on a specific topic. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. The Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals. Google Scholar's database has an estimated 80-90% coverage of all articles published in English. Google Scholar is similar in function to the freely available CiteSeerX and getCITED. It also resembles the subscription-based tools, Elsevier's Scopus and Thomson Reuters' Web of Science.

https://scholar.google.com/


  1. HIGHWIRE

HighWire Press is the largest list of free full-text science. As of March 2015, Highwire are assisting in the online publication of 2,434,604 free full-text articles and 7,659,003 total articles. There are 27 sites with free trial periods, and 156 completely free sites. 284 sites have free back issues, and 1492 sites have pay per view.

http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl Open Access

http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/largest.dtl Open Access


  1. HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative) - part of Research4Life

The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative provides the latest & best information on public health, over 2000 scientific publication of biomedical literature, access to 14,000 journals (in 30 different languages), 33,000 e-books, and 90 other information resources.

http://www.who.int/hinari/en Username: KEN007 Password: 56J7N36




  1. icipe DSPACE REPOSITORY

http://library.icipe.org:8800/ir/


  1. icipe THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

http://library.icipe.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=&q=&branch_group_limit=

http://library.icipe.org:8800/ir/handle/123456789/1


  1. JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY (JKUAT) THESIS REPOSITORY

http://ir.jkuat.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1154/discover?rpp=10&page=2&query=icipe&group_by=none&etal=0 Open access


  1. JSTOR (PERii resource)

An online archive of scholarly journal literature. The archive currently includes over 600 scholarly journals in 42 disciplines. Years of coverage vary by journal: some go back to the mid-1800s. Note: JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of journals.

http://www.jstor.org/ Access is IP enabled




  1. JURN search engine

Search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses. JURN provides comprehensive coverage of e-journals in the arts and humanities, the natural world and ecology. In 2014 JURN’s coverage was expanded to index selected university full text repositories, and also to e-journals in science, biomedical, business and law.

http://www.jurn.org/#gsc.tab=0 Open Access


  1. KENYATTA UNIVERSITY THESES

This collection contains bibliographic information abstracts and full text of Masters and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) theses and dissertations held in Research and Special Collections Section in Kenyatta University Library.

Masters http://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/159

PhD http://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/155


  1. LSHTM THESES

http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/view/theses/archive.html Open Access


  1. MARY ANN LIEBERT INC. (PERii resource)

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research.

http://www.liebertonline.com

http://www.liebertpub.com/bytype/journals-print-online/714/


  1. MEDNAR search engine

Mednar is a free, medically-focused deep web search engine that uses Explorit Everywhere!, an advanced search technology by Deep Web Technologies. As an alternative to Google, Mednar accelerates your research with a search of authoritative public and deep web resources, returning the most relevant results to one easily navigable page. Unlike Google, a Mednar search occurs in real-time, retrieving relevant medical information as if you were going to each individual website yourself.

http://mednar.com/mednar/desktop/en/green/search.html


  1. MICROSOFT ACADEMIC search engine

View latest publications according to subject area, or conduct semantic searches to give you highly relevant search results from continually refreshed and extensive academic content from over 80 million publications.

https://academic.microsoft.com/


  1. MIT LIBRARIES SERVICES & INFORMATION

http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/search/basic?sid=2f3d9e5e-8460-4aed-98d4-de7270ebf0fb%40sessionmgr4004&vid=0&hid=4102


  1. NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS

Reports from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council are available online free for the reading from the National Academy Press. Includes full access to PNAS.

http://www.nationalacademies.org/publications/ Open access


  1. NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP

Publishes over 30 journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.

http://www.nature.com Access is IP enabled




  1. NCBI BOOKSHELF

Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books Open Access


  1. NDLTD

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Search the 4,300,630 electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD archive.

http://search.ndltd.org/index.php Open Access


  1. OAIster search engine

OAIster is a freely accessible search engine for open access web resources, available from OCLC. OAIster uses the Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) to harvest records from websites. Search for theses, articles, books and many other digital items.

http://oaister.worldcat.org/ Open Access


  1. OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment) - part of Research4Life

OARE is an initiative to provide free or low cost access to one of the world's largest collections of the environmental science literature and database search tools and access to 5,700 journals and 15,000 e-books.

http://oare.oaresciences.org Username: KEN506 Password: 16697




  1. OECD iLIBRARY: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Dev. (PERii resource)

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/


  1. Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)

Theses and dissertations, free to find, free to use. OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1000 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 2,985,472 theses and dissertations.

https://oatd.org/ Open Access


  1. OPEN THESIS

OpenThesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools.

http://www.openthesis.org/ Open Access


  1. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS (PERii resource)

Access to over 120 journals in all fields of science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences. Includes some of the World's society journals.

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/ Username: internatio63 Password: Duduville




  1. ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses OPEN

With PQDT Open, you can read the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.

http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/search.html Open Access


  1. PUBMED search engine

PubMed allows you to search MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine’s database. MEDLINE contains more than 15 million references from thousands of worldwide biomedical journals. PubMed is a great way to dive quickly into the scientific literature. In general, PubMed displays the title, authors and an abstract—or short description—of an article. It also usually provides a link to a site with the full text of the article (some full-text options are free, but many require a journal subscription or a fee).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ Open Access


  1. PUBMED CENTRAL (PMC)

PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ Open Access


  1. RESEARCHGATE

ResearchGate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.

http://www.researchgate.net/ Open Access


  1. ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY (PERii resource)

36 full text journals, a range of key databases and a series of specialist periodical reports. Royal Society of Chemistry Archive: Back-file containing all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004.

http://www.rsc.org/ Access is IP enabled




  1. ROYAL SOCIETY JOURNALS ONLINE

Seven leading international journals from the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science. Titles cover the whole of the biological and physical sciences, and include philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the longest running, continuously published journal in the World.

http://www.royalsocietypublishing.org/journals Access is IP enabled




  1. SCIENCE DIRECT/ELSEVIER AND SCOPUS

In March 2015 the icipe Library acquired access to Science Direct (Elsevier) and Scopus through the Library of Alexandria.
Science Direct (http://www.sciencedirect.com/) is an online platform for access to nearly 2,500 academic journals (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journals)

and over 33,000 e-books (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookbshsrw),

including newly available books in Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities.
Science Direct has almost one-quarter of the world's peer-reviewed full-text scientific, technical and medical content, including Elsevier journals and books.
Scopus search engine is the largest abstract and citation database in the world for academic journal articles. It covers nearly 22,000 journals from over 5,000 publishers, of which 20,000 are peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences.
icipe has a limited number of passwords to access Science Direct and Scopus. As a result, access is limited to the following individuals, who can provide general access through a shared computer without divulging the username and password:


Theme/Unit/Project

Name

Email

LIBRARY

Mr. Joash Lago or

Mr. Wellington Ambaka
jlago@icipe.org wambaka@icipe.org

ANIMAL HEALTH

Ms. Barbara Kagima

bkagima@icipe.org

ENVIROMENTAL HEALTH

Ms. Pamela Seda

pseda@icipe.org

HUMAN HEALTH (Mbita)

Dr. Ulrike Fillinger

ufillinger@icipe.org

PLANT HEALTH

Dr. Chrysantus Tanga

ctanga@icipe.org

BCEU

Dr. David Tchouassi

tchouassi@icipe.org

PUSH–PULL (Mbita)

Dr. Charles Midega

cmidega@icipe.org

MBBU

Ms. Esther Waweru

ewaweru@icipe.org

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Ms. Sarah W. Kingori

skingori@icipe.org




  1. SCIENCE.GOV search engine

Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.

http://www.science.gov/ Open Access


  1. SPRINGER JOURNALS AND BOOKS

Providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.

www.link.springer.com/ Username: jlago@icipe.org Password: ku12ba64

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  1. TAYLOR & FRANCIS JOURNALS AND EBOOKS

http://www.tandfonline.com/ Access is IP enabled


  1. TRUMAN PICKLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY - Free Databases for Magazine/Journal Articles, etc. http://library.truman.edu/Free/free.asp Open access




  1. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS – CALIBER (PERii resource)

This collection of online journals spans topics in the humanities and social sciences, with concentrations in sociology, musicology, history, religion, cultural and area studies, ornithology, law, and literature.

http://www.ucpressjournals.com/ Access is IP enabled




  1. University of Chicago Press- Journals Online (PERii resource)

Includes The Quarterly Review of Biology, the premier review journal in biology.

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu Access is IP enabled


  1. UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM THESIS COLLECTION

http://dspace.uofk.edu:8080/handle/123456789/16625 Open access


  1. UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI DIGITAL REPOSITORY –Theses and Dissertations http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/2/discover Open access




  1. University of Pretoria Theses and Dissertations

http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/31741 Open access


  1. WILEY-BLACKWELL

Access to the full text of over 1,400 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals. In June 2008, Wiley Interscience incorporated the online content formerly hosted on Blackwell Synergy.

http://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

Access is IP enabled OR Login: library@icipe.org Password: 3sA78GRw


  1. WORLD BANK E-LIBRARY

http://elibrary.worldbank.org/ Open Access


  1. WORLD BANK PUBLICATIONS (PERii resource)

http://www.worldbank.org/reference/


  1. WORLD WIDE SCIENCE

This is a global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals that, for a keyword search, examines 99 sources. Search results are organized into papers, multimedia and data sections. In the Topics section, one of the options is Full Text Articles. Note: search results for this gateway include links to commercially produced material that may be available from the various R4L program portals.

http://worldwidescience.org/ Open Access

Not filed

http://www.intechopen.com/

http://www.nature.com/scitable



OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION RESOURCES


  1. 100 Search Engines For Academic Research

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/100-search-engines-for-academic-research/


  1. Kudos for Researchers

Kudos is a free service through which you can broaden readership and increase the impact of your research. Kudos is more than a just a networking site, and more than just a publication listing. It is a toolkit for explaining your work in plain language and for enriching it with links to related materials (watch a video about explaining and enriching). Kudos also provides a unique one-stop shop for multiple metrics relating to your publications: page views, citations, full text downloads and altmetrics. When you explain, enrich and share your work through Kudos, we map your actions against these metrics in charts that show you which activities are most effective when it comes to increasing the reach and impact of your work (watch a video about sharing your work).

https://www.growkudos.com/


  1. How to reach a wider audience for your research

http://www.scidev.net/sub-saharan-africa/communication/practical-guide/altmetrics-audience-connect-research-2.html


  1. Academia.edu

Join more than 32,000,000 Academics. Academia is the easiest way to share papers with millions of people across the world for free. A recent study found that papers uploaded to Academia receive a 73% boost in citations over 5 years.

https://www.academia.edu/


  1. Mendeley: Free Reference Manager

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device. Showcase your work on your profile and assess the impact of your research.

https://www.mendeley.com/


  1. Avoid these Predatory Publishers (2014 list)

http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/

http://scholarlyoa.com/


  1. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate Turabian (7th ed.)

http://www.sentir.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/A-manual-for-writers-of-research-papers-theses-and-dissertations.pdf


  1. AuthorAid

AuthorAID is a global network that provides support, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in developing countries. AuthorAID helps researchers in developing countries to publish and otherwise communicate their work. It also serves as a wider global forum to discuss and disseminate research. Includes lots of training materials. Registering is free.

www.authoraid.info/


  1. INASP

INASP is an international development charity working with a global network of partners to improve access, production and use of research information and knowledge, so that countries are equipped to solve their development challenges.

http://www.inasp.info/en/


  1. Research4Life Training Portal

Welcome to the Research4Life Training Portal. In order for librarians and researchers to make the best use of the Research4Life resources, we understand the importance of training and effective promotion. The partners are committed to provide appropriate long-term support on the use of online resources and more. In this section you will find different Research4Life training material to download for free, information about local workshops and advanced courses for our four programmes HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI. The content of this portal is aimed at librarians, information specialists, scientists, researchers and students. Includes training on authorship skills.

http://www.research4life.org/training/

  1. Resources for Science Writing


  • Elsevier Publishing Campus: Elsevier’s new online training center includes instruction on writing for books and journals, peer reviewing, grant writing, ethics - and how to get your research noticed. http://www.publishingcampus.elsevier.com/

  • Research4Life Training Portal: A platform with free downloadable resources for researchers. The Authorship Skills section contains 10 modules, including how to read and write scientific papers, intellectual property and web bibliography along with hands-on activity workbooks.

  • Career Advice portal of Elsevier Connect. Stories include tips for publishing in an international journal and "Eight reasons I rejected your article."

  • Writing in the Sciences: An online course by Coursera that teaches scientists to become more effective writers, using practical examples and exercises. Topics include principles of good writing, tricks for writing faster and with less anxiety, the format of a scientific manuscript, and issues in publication and peer review.

  • Writing for Journals: Online courses

https://www.publishingcampus.elsevier.com/pages/14/Colleges/College-of-Skill-training/Writing-for-books-and-journals.html

  • Tips to Writing better papers

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/infographic-tips-to-writing-better-science-papers

  • How to publish in scholarly journals

https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/91173/Brochure_UPP_April2015.pdf

  • Research and publishing ethics: Authorship, plagiarism and responsibilities

https://www.publishingcampus.elsevier.com/websites/elsevier_publishingcampus/files/Guides/Quick_guide_Research_Ethics.pdf  

  • Elsevier Publishing Campus: Quick Guides, Brochures and Papers (RECOMMENDED!)

https://www.publishingcampus.elsevier.com/pages/154/Colleges/College-of-Skills-Training/Resources-for-Skills-Training/Quick-Guides-and-Downloads.html

  • Getting published: What distinguishes a good manuscript from a bad one?

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/get-published-what-distinguishes-a-good-manuscript-from-a-bad-one

  • Writing in the Sciences (Coursera online course)

https://www.coursera.org/course/sciwrite?action=watchlist

  • Publishing and Research Ethics

https://www.publishingcampus.elsevier.com/pages/63//ethics/Publishing-ethics.html

  • Write that Journal Article in seven days https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZsY680ToDwh3m7ShaVvvNSx4JrPpMUB9jQkvoXQWmVk/edit?pref=2&pli=1#slide=id.gd4ceab0e7_0_144

  • Shut up and Write!

http://thesiswhisperer.com/shut-up-and-write/

  • How to Read a Scientific Paper

http://www.research4life.org/how-to-read-a-scientific-paper/

  • Written Communication http://www.northwestern.edu/climb/resources/written-communication/index.html

  • The Structure, Format, Content, and Style of a Journal-Style Scientific Paper http://abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/resources/writing/HTWsections.html



  1. Plagiarism

  • What is plagiarism?

http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism-101/what-is-plagiarism

  • Free plagiarism checking software

http://www.plagtracker.com/

https://www.plagramme.com/

http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/

http://www.plagscan.com/seesources/analyse.php

http://plagiarisma.net/

  • Grammarly (commercial plagiarism checking software): www.grammarly.com




  1. Grey Literature

  • Grey literature is defined as ‘that which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers.’ Examples include technical reports from governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental agencies or research groups, working papers from research groups or preprints, thesis/dissertations and conference papers. Here is a list some of the most useful tools to find Grey Literature related to science http://www.research4life.org/grey-literature-resources/

  • Open Grey, a consortium of numerous academic institutions in Europe, 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 results are organized by author, organization, discipline, keyword, year and document type with access to the full-text documents. www.opengrey.eu

  • GrayLit Network. Developed by the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), in collaboration with DOD/DTIC, NASA, and EPA, the GrayLIT Network is a portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects. http://graylit.osti.gov/




  1. Free Science E-books on the Internet

http://www.research4life.org/free-science-e-books/


  1. Research4Life Training Portal

Includes, Authorship Skills; Reference Management Tools; Research4Life distance learning courses and the workshops available in different countries, information literacy).

http://www.research4life.org/training/


  1. Posters

  • Tips for designing better research posters

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/infographic-tips-for-designing-better-research-posters

  • How to Create a Research Poster: Poster Basics

http://guides.nyu.edu/c.php?g=276826&p=1846154

  • Designing conference posters

http://colinpurrington.com/tips/poster-design

  1. Measuring Your Impact

  • Impact Factor, Citation Analysis, and other Metrics


http://researchguides.uic.edu/c.php?g=252299&p=1683205

  • How to measure your impact

http://researchguides.uic.edu/ld.php?content_id=10003614


  1. Information literacy: training resources

  • How to become a literature searching ninja

http://thesiswhisperer.com/2015/05/13/how-to-become-a-literature-searching-ninja/

  • How to conduct a literature search

http://www.slideshare.net/featherr/how-to-conduct-a-literature-search

  • INASP

Information literacy and search skills for researchers

http://www.inasp.info/en/training-resources/courses/127/

This workshop provides for half-day training on online research literature identification and searching skills. As a result of this workshop, researchers will be better able to (efficiently) identify and use the most appropriate resources for their teaching and research needs. The workshops are such that librarians can modify them for their own situation.

This is a 3 hour workshop covering:


  • Resources available

  • Accessing and downloading content

  • Search skills

  • Evaluation of resources and results

The purpose of the workshop is to develop skills in finding and searching online research literature.  These materials can be used and adapted by librarians wishing to offer training within their institutions but could also be used for self-study.

Goals


  • To introduce participants to a range of electronic resources

  • To demonstrate the range of e-resources available in their country

  • To provide hands-on experience on using and accessing e-resources

By the end of the workshop, participants will have:

  • Reviewed the electronic resources available in their country

  • Identified core skills for e-resource use, e.g. effective searching and evaluation of search results

Download training course materials

Download all as zip

  • Module 1 Search skills for researchers zip

  • Handout 1 - Using online resources.pdf

  • Handout 2 - How to search on Google.pdf

  • Handout 3 - Making the most of Google.pdf

  • Handout 4 - Search strategy.pdf

  • Presentation - Search skills for researchers.pptx

  • Search skills for researchers - Facilitator notes.pdf

  • Search skills for researchers participants handbook.pdf




  1. Resources for Scientific Presentations

  • How to give a dynamic scientific presentation

  • https://www.elsevier.com/connect/how-to-give-a-dynamic-scientific-presentation

  • Made to Stick: Delivering scientific presentations and posters for impact

  • http://www.northwestern.edu/climb/pdfs-powerpoints/resources-oral/Oral%20presentation%20skills%201%20-%20sticky%20scientific%20presentations%202012.pdf




  • https://www.youtube.com/user/CLIMBProgram




  • Creating a 10-15 Minute Scientific Presentation

http://www.northwestern.edu/climb/resources/oral-communication-skills/creating-a-presentation.html


  1. Career Development

http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/features/2014/08/transferrable-postdoc


OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS TO THE ICIPE LIBRARY E-RESOURCES THROUGH EZPROXY

What is EZproxy?

EZproxy is a web based proxy server used by libraries to give remote access to any library’s restricted e-databases that authenticate users by IP address. This allows library patrons at home or elsewhere to log in through their library's EZproxy server and gain access to the electronic bibliographic databases and similar e-resources to which the library subscribes.

icipe’s e-resource databases (ONLINE JOURNALS) and the icipe ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOGUE, have been registered with the EZproxy server for remote access.

Instructions

  1. Go to the icipe intranet at http://intranet.icipe.org:8000/intranet/ and login with your icipe registered username and password.

  2. Then go to library > resources > then select ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOGUE or ONLINE JOURNALS

  3. Log in to each ONLINE JOURNALS resource or the ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOGUE as you would normally.

If you have a problem logging in then please contact the icipe library for assistance (jlago@icipe.org; wambaka@icipe.org or library@icipe.org).


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