NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Introduction Session #1, Sept 13, 2005 Session #1, Sept 13, 2005 Session #2, Sept 14, 2005 Session #2, Sept 14, 2005 Internet Concepts and Scientific Literature Resources Ho Chi Minh City, VietNam Ho Chi Minh City, VietNam
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NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Introduction Session #1, Sept 13, 2005 Session #2, Sept 14, 2005 Internet Concepts and Scientific Literature Resources Ho.
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Topics
– Basic Internet Concepts– History of the Internet– Structure of the Internet– Types of Information – Evaluation of Information– Search Tools & Techniques– Researching Health/Biomedical Information– Managing Internet Resources– Summary
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Basic Internet Terminology
• What is the Internet?– Network of Computer Networks– Telecommunications– Protocols– Uses
• Information Networks– Libraries– Research Centers
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Internet Protocols & Uses
• E-mail
• TCP/IP
• FTP
• HTML
• HTTP
• TELNET
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Network of Information Networks
• Library Networks– Local - A university, hospital, or research institute– Regional – A group of universities– National - A country wide network– International –
• The WHO Library http://www.who.int/library/• Hellis – http://www.hellis.org (Network of Health
Science Libraries Across Asia)
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Here is the homepage of the WHO Library.
WHO Library Website
http://www.who.int/library/
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The Internet Address or URL
This page is being viewed in the Internet Explorer Browser. Browsers allow computers to read Hyper Text Mark-up Language OR HTML
The Address or URL is typed in here.
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Entering a URL address in the address box
After Entering a URL address in the address box click ok “go” or hit the RETURN key. In this example we have entered http://www.who.int for the WHO website
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Hypertext links
Links to other pages are usually underlined or in another colour of text.
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Forward and back navigation buttons
The arrow buttons on the tool bar allow users to move back and forward to pages within the website.
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Home page button
The house icon on the tool bar will take you back to the browser’s default Home Page.
FreeMedicalJournals.com lists journals sites that make their content free to all users. Journals are listed by A-Z, speciality, and language.
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
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BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an open access publisher that makes access to published articles freely available to the public. The journals are funded by an author pays model.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
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PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a free archive of articles that have been deposited in this free repository.
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/
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Fee-Based Internet Resources
• Reference Titles
• Periodical Indexes
• Electronic Journals
• Electronic Text Books
• Online Databases
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Managing Internet Resources
• Bookmarks– What is a Bookmark?
• Netscape
• Favorites• Internet Explorer
• Offline Activity
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Adding favorites 1
To add a page to Favorites click on the link on the Tool bar.
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Adding favorites 2
You can now give your new Favorite a name.
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Adding favorites 3
When you select favorites from the tool bar you can see that your page has been added to the list.
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This is the end of Module 1
This is the end of Module 1
There is a Work Book to accompany this part of the module. The workbook will take you through a live session covering the topics included in this demonstration with working examples.