Search Across Research4Life Programmes

Webinar
Part 1 - Introduction to Research4Life
Edit Horvath, User and Outreach Librarian, International Labour Organization (ILO)
Part 2- Search Across Research4Life Programmes
Lenny Rhine, Librarians without Borders/Medical Library Association (USA)
What is Research4Life?

Research4Life provides free or low-cost access to

academic and professional resources online from up
to 180 international publishers.

23,500 86,000 120

journals books other resources
Subjects

Health

Agriculture

Environment

Law and Social sciences

Scientific, technical information

Who can use Research4Life?

Free access - Low-cost access

125 countries, territories and areas in total
Who can use Research4Life?

Universities

Research Institutes

Government Offices

Teaching hospitals, Healthcare Services

National NGOs

Vocational Training Centres

National Libraries
Five programs

Health WHO

Agriculture FAO

Environment UNEP

Innovation and technology WIPO

Law and social sciences ILO

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Search Across Research4Life Programmes

Research4Life Webinar – 30 June 2020

Lenny Rhine
Librarians without Borders/Medical Library Association (USA)

Research4Life is a public-private partnership of five programmes

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Outline

This webinar will discuss how to:

● Build a search strategy

● Use the access options on the Research4Life platform
● Use Summon to search across Research4Life programmes
● Use Google Scholar to search for resources available via
Research4Life
● Discuss trouble shooting and Research4Life support
● Introduce next Research4Life webinar

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Levels of Search Strategies

• Simple search - a quick and first step search for online resources.
Google Scholar, university library’s catalogue or Wikipedia can be first
place to start with.
• Systematic search - requires a more comprehensive search strategy. Is
done for a complex piece of research which aims to identify, select and
synthesize all research published on a particular question or topic.
• Following a thread or snowballing - the references listed in relevant
publications leads readers to other relevant publications. Is very useful at
the start of the project, because it will quickly identify the related
publications.
10 Steps to develop a search
strategy (adopt a systematic
strategy)
Tools to refine a search
● Boolean Operators:
● AND operator is used to combine two or more concepts and narrows a search
● OR operator is used to contain one or other terms and broadens a search
● NOT operator is used to exclude one or other terms and narrows a search
Research4Life access options

● Basic access points to the

Research4Life resources
are:

● Journals & Books

Collection
● Subject
● Language
● Publisher
● Databases for discovery
● Reference sources
● Free collections
Subject access

● Subject search for

Infectious Diseases

● Note that books and

journals are listed
together
● Via Type, one or the
other can be listed
● The Show Items per
page drop down menu is
useful
● The Language search
Publisher access

The Publisher list has two

sections:

● You have full access to:

● You do not have full
access:
● To view the book and journal
titles, click on the Publisher’s
name

The example is from:

Ethiopia (University / Faculty /
“Accessible Content” vs. “All Items”

● For (Ethiopia / University /

Faculty / College):

● The Karger Accessible

Content has a green box
before the title
● The Springer Nature All
Items
has a grey “!” before the title
Content offered by publishers list

http://login.research4life.org/tacsgr1www_who_int/
hinari/eligibility/en/

● From the Research4Life Eligibility

page, open the Content offered by
publishers… tool for one of the
programmes. (scroll down the page)
● Select a country, area or
territory (Ethiopia) and institution
category (University / Faculty...) and
click on Find.
● Displayed is list of publishers
granting access with the # of
subscription-based journals and fee-
based books.
Searching across R4L programmes

● Summon and Google Scholar (Research4Life) search

across all the Research4Life programmes.
● The tools access a different set of resources.
● As of July 2020, Summon automatically performs
the search in the appropriate country-specific
Summon environment.
● It makes use of the country offers defined by the
publishers where they identify which countries they
have granted access to their resources.
Summon searching across R4L

• Summon is a Google-like search engine that provides fast,

relevancy-ranked results.
• Users enter the search terms into a single search box or via
the advanced search option.
• The results of the search are displayed with links directly to
Full Text Online and/or Preview (abstract).
• Searches can be refined (limited) by Content Type,
Discipline, PUBLICATION DATE and other options.
• Citations from searches can be saved with options to EMAIL,
PRINT or EXPORT TO bibliographic management software.
Search across (all) R4L programmes
If a “solar panels” and
“developing countries”
search is completed in any
of the programmes, the
results will be identical -
2,289.
Every Summon search
includes the resources from
all five programmes - that
the publishers have
granted access to in the
specific country.
Initial search results

The results are 1,793

sorted by relevance. For
the search – hospital
infections and “developing
countries” –results are
206,000+ citations.

R4L publishers grant access

to the Journal Article Full
Text Online links plus a
Preview.

Note the Add results

beyond your library’s
collection box – 3209
Publishers grant access

Publishers have the option to

grant access or not in a specific
country. The “hospital
infections” and “developing
countries” search has been
completed using logins for
Bhutan (Teaching hospital) and
Morocco (Teaching hospital).
The Bhutan results (1280) are
45% higher than the Morocco
results (884).
Preview feature

Almost all citations contain a

Preview that includes an
abstract of the article and
detailed bibliographic
information from the MEDLINE
record – Publication, Volume,
Issue, Pages, Genre and
Subjects.
The Preview feature can be
used to evaluate the content of
the article or book & then to
decide to download it or not.
Save search citations

● Save Items to the Cart. Click on the Save items icon to

move citations to the Cart and then be able to use
Print, Email or Export to bibliographic management
software options.

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Saved items options

● After clicking on the Cart, the 6 saved items are

displayed for the Export To, Print and Email
options.
Export to options

● The following reference

management softwares are
supported: Refworks,
EazyBib, EndNote, BibTex,
Citavi
● The examples will use the
Zotero open-source
software.
● Displayed is the Summon
search Cart with six citations
and the Export to options.
After clicking on Zotero,
Google Chrome creates a file
that can be sent to a Zotero
Print and Email options

The Print and Email options are displayed below.

These features are useful to save search results by printing
the Saved Items or sending them to an email address.
Advanced search

The Advanced Search

option is a useful tool to
combine search terms
and to refine your
search.

Remember that the

search results reflect
what the publishers
have granted access to
in the specific country.

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Summon search demonstration

http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
Google Scholar (Research4Life)

● Scholar is a tool to perform broad searches for scholarly literature.

● Results include articles, theses, books, abstracts, etc. from academic
publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other
web sites

● Search results are displayed by relevancy ranking, with year and date
options plus brief abstracts with links to full text documents.

● For journals, the citations will contain links to full text from Research4Life
participating publishers’ portals plus titles that commercial publishers grant
access to, open access articles and pre-publication documents.

● To have access to the Research4Life full text links, users must be logged
into one of the five R4L programmes and access Scholar from one the
Access to R4L Google Scholar

From the any of the Content pages,

click on Databases for discovery and
then open Google Scholar. Complete
the “water pollution” and pesticides
search.
Search results
The results for this search have
141,000 citations ranked by
relevancy.
The left column has some basic
options to refine your searches
(Custom range, Sort by
relevance or date) and also
Create alert.
From right column, note the links to
Research4Life Full-Text.

Note: without the “water pollution”

exact phrase quotes, search results
Access to R4L Full-Text article
Displayed is the
research4life 360 link:
●Click on ScienceDirect –
Connect here FIRST to
enable access
●Return to this tab and click
on Article Full Text
●From the publisher’s portal,
access to the article will be
displayed
Google Scholar features

Google Scholar has several useful

options. From the search results
page, click on the three horizontal
bars . Users must set up a
Google Account and to be able to
use some of these options.

To set up an account, complete a

Google search for Google Create
Account or copy the following
url:
https://accounts.google.com/signup
My Library files

By clicking on the *, search results are

transferred to a file in your Google
Account’s My Library – in this case
“water pollution and pesticides”. Also
listed are the citations that had been
starred.
Create alerts

● A second useful feature is the

Alerts.
● From the left-hand column of the
Search results page, click on

●
The graphic on the right shows
the steps necessary to create
alerts.
Google Scholar Metrics
From the Scholar options ,
click on Metrics. The search is
sorted by Publications with the
h5-index and h5-median
rankings.
Note that this page can be refined
by Categories (below) and
English (Language).
h5-Index and h5-median rankings definitions
● h5-index is the largest number h such that h articles published in
[the past 5 years] have at least h citations each. Thus, an h5-
index of 60 means that that journal has published 60 articles in the
previous 5 years that have 60 or more citations each.
● h5-median is based on h5-index, but instead measures the median
(or middle) value of citations for the h number of citations. A journal
with an h5-index of 60 and h5-median of 75 means that, of the 60
articles with 60 or more citations, the median of those citation values
is 75.

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Trouble shooting and support
If access is not granted to a journal or book:
●First check if there is a blocked pop-up message that needs to be resolved
●If the publisher requests an individual login or for the user to pay for
access, check that the R4L login has been completed properly
●Then check whether the publisher does or does not grant access to this
title/specific issue that is being requested. From any R4L Content page,
open the Publisher list or Journal collection/Book collection A-Z lists.
If available by either option, go to the journal/issue/article or book and
open the full-text.
●If the user is logged in and the institution has access to the specific title
but the full-text link does not work properly, this confirms that there is a
technical problem at the publisher’s website
●Report this problem to the Research4Life HelpDesk at
[email protected]
HelpDesk instructions
● When contacting the HelpDesk, please use the following checklist:
● ● What is your institution name and country?
● ● What is the username and password you are using? (if applicable)
● ● Does your institution use IP-based access to Hinari and
Research4Life? (if applicable)
● ● Are you able to login or do you get a ‘Failure to authenticate’
message?
● ● Are you having problems accessing all content or a specific journal
or book?
● ● If you have a problem to access a specific title, please write down
the name of the journal or book.
● ● Please include a screenshot (including URL) of the error you
experienced.
Re-introducing PubMed: highlights of
the new version for Research4Life
users
● 22 July 2020 (Wednesday) 14:00 CET, registration info TBD
● Presenter: Kathy Kwan, Independent Health Information Specialist
and retired staff scientist from the US National Library of Medicine

● Abstract:
PubMed, a premier and free database of citations for biomedical
and life sciences literature from peer reviewed journals and online
books, changed over to a new version in May 2020. This webinar
with live demonstration will highlight the new version with
emphasis on features which are most relevant to Research4Life
users and those at developing countries in general. It also will
provide an overview of the contents, tools and features of
PubMed.

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Re-introducing PubMed: highlights of
the new version for Research4Life
users
● Topics:
● what is in PubMed
● overview of search interface and search results
● access to the full text provided by Research4Life
publishing partners and other sources via full text links
● Search with a purpose:
○ author and affiliation search
○ features useful for conducting systematic reviews
○ search beyond the health sciences
● personalize PubMed with My NCBI, with tips for
Research4Life users
● brief introduction of advanced features, like Automatic
Term Mapping (ATM) & Medical Subject Headings (MESH)
2020-06-21
R4L Google Scholar
search demonstration

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