NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Introduction Session #1, Sept 13, 2005 Session #2, Sept 14, 2005 Internet Concepts and Scientific Literature Resources Ho Chi Minh City, VietNam

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Instructions This part of the course is a PowerPoint demonstration intended to introduce you to Internet concepts. This part of the module is off-line and intended as an information resource for reference use. This part of the module should be taken before using the live tutorial. MODULE 1 Internet Concepts

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course 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

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Basic Internet Terminology What is the Internet? –Network of Computer Networks –Telecommunications –Protocols –Uses Information Networks –Libraries –Research Centers

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Internet Protocols & Uses TCP/IP FTP HTML HTTP TELNET

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course 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 Hellis – (Network of Health Science Libraries Across Asia)

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Here is the homepage of the WHO Library. WHO Library Website

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course 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.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course 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 for the WHO website

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Hypertext links Links to other pages are usually underlined or in another colour of text.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Forward and back navigation buttons The arrow buttons on the tool bar allow users to move back and forward to pages within the website.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Home page button The house icon on the tool bar will take you back to the browser’s default Home Page.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Types of Information Library Catalogues Multimedia Reference Tools Journals, Newspapers & Magazines Databases

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Sources of Information Academic Institutions Government Agencies Publishers –Commercial - Proprietary Databases –Non Profit Professional organizations- International Agencies-

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Internet Search tools Which search tools are needed? –Directories –Search Engines –Meta Search Engines –Invisible or Deep Web

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Directories What is a Directory? –A file used to organize internet resources into categories. –Types of Directories General- –Cover many subjects Subject Directories. –Cover specific subjects

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Search Engines –What are search engines? –Components of a search engine –Search Options Search Box : Google- Natural Language :

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course The Google search engine This is the Google search engine. Type your query into the Google search box and click on the “Google Search” button

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Search results on Google This is how Google presents the results of your search. Follow the links to the websites you wish to visit.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Meta Search Engines What is a Meta Search Engine? Examples –Dogpile –Metacrawler –OAIster - Why Use Meta Search Engines?

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Why Use Meta Search Engines Meta Search Engines search multiple sets of individual search engines and web directories simultaneously. They provide a quick way for finding out which search engines are retrieving the best results for a search. They usually return a list drawn from the top of search engine lists, the results tend to be more relevant. Use a meta Search Engine for: –Locating information quickly on a simple topic –Locate a persons’s Sample: Search- MetaCrawler for information about DR.Kitua Search for TDR on Metacrawler.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Invisible Web or Deep Web What is the Invisible Web? – ible/Inv_Web.htmlhttp://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/Invis ible/Inv_Web.html – uides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.htmlhttp:// uides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html Invisible Web Directories – –

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Web Search Techniques Searching –Which Tools? Types of Searches –Browsing –Keyword Searching –Full Text Searching

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Boolean Searching Full Boolean Searching Predetermined language in a user fill-in template.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Full Boolean Searching Use Logic Operators –AND –OR –NOT Relevancy Ranking

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course AND Operator Query- Information on Malaria AND Parasite MalariaParasite

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course OR Operator Query- Malaria OR Parasite MalariaParasite

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course NOT Operator Parasite NOT Malaria ParasiteMalaria

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Advanced Searching Techniques -Tips Truncation Proximity Searching –Phrase searching –Near operator. Case sensitivity

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course More Search Techniques Field Specific Searching –Title –Date –URL Language Restrictions

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Evaluating Web Information Criteria for Evaluation Accuracy Authority Currency Coverage Objectivity Criteria for evaluating Health Information – althinformation.htmlhttp:// althinformation.html

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Free Internet Resources Full-text Ready reference material Library Catalogues Journals Government Information Research Databases Publishers Databases Discussion groups News

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Sources for Full Text Directory of Open Access Journals Health Internetwork – Institutional Archives e.g. BioLine International -

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Health Information on the Internet Directories – Subject Directories –Health Directories Databases - –Health Electronic Journals

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Databases Government – International Health Organizations – –Educational Institutions

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Searching within the NLM website This is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) database. You can search the site from the Search Box.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course HireWire Press free article database This the HireWire Press free article database. Users have access to over 740,000 full text articles.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Journals

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course FreeMedicalJournals.com FreeMedicalJournals.com lists journals sites that make their content free to all users. Journals are listed by A-Z, speciality, and language.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course 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.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course PubMed Central PubMed Central is a free archive of articles that have been deposited in this free repository.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Fee-Based Internet Resources Reference Titles Periodical Indexes Electronic Journals Electronic Text Books Online Databases

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Managing Internet Resources Bookmarks –What is a Bookmark? Netscape Favorites Internet Explorer Offline Activity

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Adding favorites 1 To add a page to Favorites click on the link on the Tool bar.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Adding favorites 2 You can now give your new Favorite a name.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course Adding favorites 3 When you select favorites from the tool bar you can see that your page has been added to the list.

NCBI/WHO PubMed/Hinari Course 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.