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Access to scientific informationin Cambodia

Phnom Penh8 August 2011

Anders Wändahl

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About me

Anders Wändahlanders@golonka.se

Librarian

Affiliated with Karolinska Institutet, ISP, INFORM-Certiorem, EMS-CDC

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Purpose

Information on how to find scientific materials effectively & efficiently in Cambodia

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Target groups

• Researchers in developing countries. Several access programmes – use them or loose them!

• Any researcher – spread the word about the existence of these resources!

• Generally speaking, underusage is a bigger problem than lack of access!

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Content?• Bibliographic databases

• Preprints/e-prints/postprints (arXiv).

• Journals; Open Access, Retroactive Digitization, Subsidized Access, Document Delivery…

Wiki

http://acdcwiki.net/

New opportunities through e-resources

• The researchers have a much better access to scientific literature

• Lower price (< 5% of list price)

• Access to backfiles

• National access common

New problems through e-resources

• e-resources demands:

• electricity

• internet connection (bandwidth)

• local network

• computers

• skills to use the e-resources

The importance of reference databases

• Not second class researchers!

• Try to find the ”right” references!

• Try (at all expense?) to find the papers!

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines

Open access

• DOAJ – only scientific journals, several languages

• Open J-gate – different types of journals – more titles than DOAJ. Only metadata searchable.

Preprints

• ArXiv – mathematics, physics, computer science.• SSRN (Social Science Research Network) – economy, law,

management.• E-LIS – E-prints in Library and Information Science• RePEc – Research Papers in Economics• OAIster – Union catalogue of various repositories

Special programmes for low-income countries

A number of different programmes in different subjects and content types, and for different target groups

• Global

• Continental

• Bilateral

http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

Open Access + ”subscribed” journals

Special programmes for LiCscontinued

Three UN-financed programmes

• HINARI - medicine

• OARE - environment

• AGORA - agriculture

Special programmes for LiCs continued

Common rules for all three programmes:

• Institutions in countries with a low GNP can register for free access.

• Hard to find journals (i.e. Elsevier)• Good training materials

Special programmes for LiCs continued

HINARI – Health Internetwork Access to

Research Initiative

Health – but also other subjects such as biology, chemistry, economics, evironment, mathematics, physics, social sciences etc.

8300+ journals (400+ books)

Special programmes for LiCs continued

Special programmes for LiCs continued

Good training materials:

http://www.who.int/hinari/training/en/index.html

Special programmes for LiCs continued

Connection between HINARI and PubMed

http://www.who.int/hinari/training/en/index.html

Special programmes for LiCs continued

OARE – Online Access to Research in the Environment

Environment – but also other subjects such as biosciences, geology, geography, etc.

~ 4100 journals (200+ books)

Special programmes for LiCs continued

Database access through OARE:

• Environment Index (EBSCO)

• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (CSA)

Special programmes for LiCs continued

Environment Index (via OARE)

Special programmes for LiCs continued

Environmental Sciences and Pollution

Management (via OARE)

Special programmes for LiCs continued

AGORA – Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture

Agriculture – but also other subjects such as environment, food production, biology, chemistry, etc.

~ 2300 journals

Special programmes for LiCs continued

CAB Abstracts database available where you will find approx 80% of the content in AGORA.

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Developing Nations Access Initiative :

JSTOR waives its standard participation fees (the Archive Capital Fee and Annual Access Fee) for any not-for-profit institution in selected developing countries [including Cambodia] for 2009, 2010, and 2011, with a modest contribution after 2011.

2012 = $250 2013 = $500 2014 = $500

http://jstor.org

Consortia

A sustainable solution is to create (national) consortia for access to scientific materials.

Two organizations that help institutions to create consortia are

• INASP

• eIFL

Consortiacontinued

INASP – International Network for the

Availability of Scientific Publications.

Mainly developing countries.

Consortiacontinued

eIFL – Electronic Information for Libraries

Low- and middle-income and countries.

Consortiacontinued

Cambodian Electronic Information for Libraries Consortium (Cam-EIFL)

http://www.eifl.net/country/cambodia

Resources

Hin Heu - hin@cdri.org.kh

Document delivery

• POPLINE (reproductive health) http://www.popline.org/

• eJDS (mathematics/physics) http://library.ictp.it/ejds/

• Bordeauxthèque (mathematics/computer science) http://bordeauxtheque.math.u-bordeaux1.fr/

• British Library Direct

Education of researchers and librarians• Access to resources is not enough. • Underusage is a bigger problem than lack of

access.

• The potential users must know:– That the resources exists– How to find them– How to use them

Education of researchers and librarianscontinued

Organizations engaged in education and training of researchers and librarians.

Education of researchers and librarianscontinued

ITOCA - Information training and outreach

centre for Africa

Training on HINARI, OARE, AGORA

and TEEAL.

How to move forward…

• Register for HINARI, OARE, AGORA (free)

• Contact Hin Heu - hin@cdri.org.kh

Wiki

http://acdcwiki.net/

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Don’t give up!