AFTER TULANE. Lifelong Learning, Research and Produc4vity a8er Gradua4on. Rudolph Matas Library, Tulane University Health Sciences Center

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1 AFTER TULANE Lifelong Learning, Research and Produc4vity a8er Gradua4on Rudolph Matas Library, Tulane University Health Sciences Center

2 GENERAL INFORMATION

3 Library Access You will be able to con4nue accessing the library s online resources for 1 year a8er gradua4on. A8er that, you are more than welcome to visit the Matas Library or visit your nearest academic library and inquire about public or community access and privileges ***Currently, the Matas Library does not offer any community or alumni programs hqp://medlib.tulane.edu/

4 RESEARCH

5 Search Engines PubMed hqp:// comprises more than 19 million cita4ons for biomedical ar4cles from MEDLINE and life science journals. Cita4ons may include links to full text ar4cles from PubMed Central or publisher web sites. Create a MyNCBI account to save your searches and create alerts Scirus hqp:// the most comprehensive scien4fic research tool on the web. With over 370 million scien4fic items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scien4sts' homepages, courseware, pre print server material, patents and ins4tu4onal repository and website informa4on. Google Scholar hqp://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: ar4cles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional socie4es, online repositories, universi4es and other web sites.

6 Need to find books or journals locally?

7 Open Access Journals What is Open Access? According to the Budapest Open Access Ini4a4ve, open access means its free availability on the public internet, permidng any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these ar4cles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to so8ware, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. [Access is] for the scien4fic and scholarly research texts that authors give to publishers and readers without asking for any kind of royalty or payment. As the BOAI public statement puts it, "[p]rimarily, this category encompasses...peer reviewed journal ar4cles, but it also includes any unreviewed preprints hqp:// hqp://

8 Open Access One thing that needs to be dis4nguished is that there are open access journals and there are freely available ar4cles within non open access journals. The former everything is available The laqer some ar4cles are available These are primarily research ar4cles derived from federal funding You will find both in PubMed Central

9 Finding Free Full Text Ar4cles Bentham Open Access hqp:// Bioline hqp:// BioMed Central hqp:// Directory of Open Access Journals hqp:// Journals Online Project (some FT available) hqp:// Public Library of Science hqp:// PubMed Central hqp://

10 WHO Program for Developing Countries Dependent upon the country s GNI, local not for profit ins4tu4ons may qualify for free or reduced access to full text ar4cles in health, agriculture, and environmental sciences HINARI (health) hqp:// AGORA (agriculture) hqp:// OARE (environment) hqp:// See also: Research4Life hqp://

11 Health Data & Sta4s4cs Local & State Health Departments Federal or Governmental Agencies Interna4onal or Mul4na4onal Governing Bodies Founda4ons & Research Centers

12 CITATION MANAGEMENT RefWorks

13 Alumni Access to RefWorks As of Fall 2009, the library is pleased to offer our students alumni access to RefWorks. If you haven t signed up for an account while in school, be sure to register before you graduate. Change your status in RefWorks to Alumni under TOOLS > UPDATE USER INFORMATION. As long as the library con4nues its subscrip4on, you ll be able to access your cita4ons. If we should ever cancel, you ll be no4fied in order to make the necessary arrangements for your cita4ons. hqp://medlib.tulane.edu/

14 RefWorks Gedng started hqps:// WNCLang=false Need help? hqp://medlib.tulane.edu/guides/tutorials.htm hqp:// hqps:// Refworks.htm hqp://medlib.tulane.edu/

15 CITATION MANAGEMENT Zotero

16 Zotero Zotero [zoh TAIR oh] is a free, easy to use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work in the web browser itself. Works with Word and OpenOffice Support hqp:// hqp://

17 PRODUCTIVITY

18 Free Applica4ons or So8ware What is Open Source? Open source is a development method for so8ware that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is beqer quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock in. hqp:// It goes beyond the terms free so8ware or free applica4ons. In order to be Open Source, it has to meet certain criteria. hqp:// Open Source applica4ons are free to use and able to be modified to your needs, if you have the staff or exper4se Free applica4ons, on the other hand, will not allow you to modify them but you ll receive updates

19 Produc4vity So8ware (Documents, Presenta4ons, Spreadsheets) IBM Lotus Symphony (free) hqp://symphony.lotus.com/so8ware/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home OpenOffice (free) Zoho (mixed)

20 Examples of Open Source So8ware Medical Records OpenEMR hqp:// OpenMRS hqp://openmrs.org/wiki/openmrs Content Management Systems Joomla hqp:// Audio Editor and Recorder Audacity hqp://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Knowledge Management Systems OpenKM hqp://

21 Google hqp://

22 LIFELONG LEARNING

23 Online Lectures (non degree / non cer4ficate) Health Sciences Online hqp://hso.info/hso/cgi bin/query meta?v%3aframe=form&frontpage=1&v%3aproject=hso& JohnsHopkins OpenCourseware hqp://ocw.jhsph.edu/ MIT Courseware hqp://ocw.mit.edu/ocwweb/web/home/home/index.htm Supercourse hqp://

24 THANK YOU The products in this presenta4on are for demonstra4on only not promo4on or recommenda4on. The author of this presenta4on declares that there are no affilia4ons or financial conflicts with any of the products men4oned. Please send any ques4ons or comments to the Reference Desk at