1. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau1 Digital Services Usage Training Session KeMU Nairobi Campus

2. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau2 Digital Library Library concerned with electronic information and services Characterized by multi-access and remote access of information and services Information include: websites, remote databases, online journals, ebooks, ezines, epapers, repositories etc Services include: online reference and referral, SDI, CAS, literature search, information literacy etc

3. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau3 Contents Springer ebooks Emerald ebooks Ebrary ebooks Taylor & Francis ebooks Online journals Past papers

4. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau4 Springer Springer is an international renown publisher in science, technology and medicine (STM). Springer also publishes books and journals in social science and business. KeMU is currently accessing springer ebooks on a trial basis up to 26 th November 2010.

5. 17 th and 18 th October 2011 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau5 Springer ebooks KeMU has access to the following subject areas in English language from 2005-2010 : Computer Science (8,524) Humanities, Social Sciences and Law (4,495) Mathematics and Statistics (4,449) Engineering (4,245) Business and Economics (4,062) Medicine (3,716) Biomedical and Life Sciences (3,143) Physics and Astronomy (2,779)

6. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau6 Springer ebooks - Access To access Springer ebooks, go to KeMU Library website: www.kemulib.blogspot.com and then click ebooks and select Springer ebookswww.kemulib.blogspot.com

7. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau7 Springer ebooks – browsing Browsing is perusing through a database being guided by the arrangement of content on the website/interface. Springer ebooks interface allows you to browse by collection, subject, language, copyright year, springerlink date, content type and their combinations Example: http://www.springerlink.com/books/?Content+Type=B ooks&Subject+Group=Computer+Science&Subject= Computer+Science&Subject=Artificial+Intelligence+% 28incl.+Robotics%29&Subject=Software+Engineerin g&Subject=Business+Information+Systems http://www.springerlink.com/books/?Content+Type=B ooks&Subject+Group=Computer+Science&Subject= Computer+Science&Subject=Artificial+Intelligence+% 28incl.+Robotics%29&Subject=Software+Engineerin g&Subject=Business+Information+Systems

8. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau8 Springer ebooks – simple keyword searching You must know what you are looking for Prepare the keywords that will give relevant results Then type the keywords in the ‘search for’ box on Springer ebooks page and click go Example: “micro business”

9. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau9 Springer ebooks – advanced keyword search Select which part of the book you want to search Apply Boolean operators Limit your search by category and date Search by author, editor, DOI, Search within a publication Order your results by relevance, publication date, and alphabetical Example: “micro business” in title and abstract for 2005-2010 in books category ordered by relevance

10. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau10 Springer ebooks – read, download, save and print You can choose to read, download, save or print. To read click on the title of the book or book chapter and click on ‘look inside’. You can choose to view full screen and also to hide thumbnails To download click on the download link and later on save to removable storage or print

11. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau11 EMERALD EBOOKS

12. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau12 Emerald Emerald is distinguished publisher of journals and books in management, business, society, and public policy. We do access 140 selected journals from emerald through PERI. KeMU is accessing emerald ebooks on a trial basis up to 31 st October 2010.

13. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau13 Emerald ebooks – access To access emerald ebooks go to library website: www.kemulib.blogspot.com click on ebooks and select emerald ebookswww.kemulib.blogspot.com Type username and password

14. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau14 Emerald ebooks – browsing Click browse books and journals on the left column View both journals and books or just books Browse by title or subject Click on the title of book series Click on the volume and select the chapter

15. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau15 Emerald ebooks – simple keyword search Type your keyword in the search for box and select books on the in box then click go Example: “micro business”

16. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau16 Emerald ebooks – advanced keyword search Search for keyword in selected field i.e. title, abstract, full text, chapter title author etc Apply Boolean search i.e. AND, OR, NOT Limit search by date Search what you have paid for ie my subscribed content Example: “micro business” in book series title or chapter title or abstract for 2005-2010 in books category ordered by relevance

17. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau17 Emerald ebooks – read, download, save and print You can choose to read, download, save or print. To read click on view html or view pdf under the title on the results. To download choose view pdf.It is the most recommended format for downloading and saving. You can choose to print from both html and pdf views. To print in html view click on print view and then select print from file menu

18. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau18 EBRARY EBOOKS

19. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau19 Ebrary Ebrary is an aggregator i.e. gets ebooks from different publishers and offers an interface for their access. Ebrary offers academic complete package with more than 47000 ebooks in different subjects from different publishers http://site.ebrary.com/lib/academiccompletetitles/hom e.action http://site.ebrary.com/lib/academiccompletetitles/hom e.action http://kmeth.bravecontent.com/

20. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau20 Ebrary ebooks - access To access ebrary ebooks go to library website: www.kemulib.blogspot.com click on ebooks and select ebrary ebookswww.kemulib.blogspot.com Type in your username and password Request for username and password by sending you name and staff number to librarykemu@yahoo.com librarykemu@yahoo.com

21. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau21 Ebrary ebooks - browsing Browse by subject: click on all subjects and select the subject and then the specific subject and so on Then click on the book from the results to read the book

22. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau22 Ebrary ebooks – simple keyword search Type keyword(s) in the simple search box and click search ebrary Example: “micro business” Offers limitation by subject

23. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau23 Ebrary ebooks – advanced keyword search Search for keyword in selected field i.e. title, abstract, full text, chapter title author etc Use Boolean operators OR, AND, NOT Combine keywords from different fields Example: "micro business" OR "Small and Medium Enterprises" OR SME in title for 2005-2010 ordered by relevance

24. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau24 Ebrary ebooks – quick view To read the ebooks using quick view click on the title of the ebook from the results section Use quick view when your computer is not installed with ebrary reader You have access to all facilities i.e. print, copy, definitions, explanations etc.

25. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau25 Ebrary ebooks – ebrary reader To read the ebooks using ebrary reader click on the ebrary reader button at the end of the title of the ebook on the results section. If you are on the quick view click the blue ebrary reader button at the top of the ebook It opens a new window for every book you want to read, quick view only opens one at a time Use ebrary reader when you have it installed or you have administrative rights to install it. You have access to all facilities i.e. print, copy, definitions, explanations etc.

26. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau26 Ebrary ebooks - bookshelf Save your favourite books so that you do not have to keep on searching every time. Create folders so that you have related books in one folder Save the notes you make To add ebooks to bookshelf click add to my bookshelf on the results section or on the info tools in ebrary reader.

27. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau27 Ebrary ebooks - infotools These are tools developed by ebrary to help you manupulate information within ebrary ebooks You are able to copy, print, define, explain, search, bookmark, translate, search within the document etc

28. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau28 Ebrary ebooks - sign-out When you have finished using ebrary ebooks; REMEMBER TO SIGN-OUT. Ebrary does not allow the same password to sign in twice at the same time. We recommend not to share usernames and passwords

29. Taylor & Francis ebooks

30. Taylor & Francis Publishing company with two centuries' experience A leading international academic publisher. Publishes more than 1,500 journals and around 1,800 new books each year, with a books backlist in excess of 20,000 specialist titles. http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/ Taylor & Francis Group is an Informa business (www.informa.com). Informa plc is the global information provider for the academic, professional and commercial markets Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau30

31. Taylor & Francis ebooks - access To access Taylor & Francis books go to library website: www.kemulib.blogspot.com click on ebooks and select Taylor & Francis ebookswww.kemulib.blogspot.com Subject covered by Taylor & Francis are listed on the library website No password is required; Taylor & Francis ebooks are accessible via IP verification Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau31

32. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau32 ONLINE JOURNALS

33. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau33 Online journals Journals :periodic publications containing current information from specific subject or scholarly field i.e. business, agriculture, astronomy etc KeMU has a subscribed to more than 20,000 online journals through PERI initiative. We access journals via databases prepared by publishers, academic or professional bodies e.g. emerald, Jstor, IEEE etc.

34. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau34 Online journals - access Go to library website: www.kemulib.blogspot.com click on ‘online journals’ and select the database of your choicewww.kemulib.blogspot.com We have described the subjects covered under each database. You don’t need any password for online journals except for Emerald and HINARI

35. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau35 Online journals - browsing On the database of your choice click browse by subject or title (whichever is offered) If there is no browse button, go through the subjects or titles and click on the appropriate one, then to volume, issue, article Different databases have different interfaces but the procedures are the same

36. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau36 Online journals – simple keyword search Type your keyword in the search box and click on ‘search’ or ‘go’. Simple keyword will search all fields and will give too many results. Browse through the results to pick the appropriate articles or search within the results if this option is available.

37. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau37 Online journals – advanced keyword search Search different fields ie title, abstract, text, author, publisher etc. Use Boolean operators. Combine keywords and search from different fields. Limit search by language, date, etc.

38. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau38 Online journals – read, download, save and print To read: select html or pdf format, if this is not provided click on the article title. To download: click on the pdf format or download button if provided To save: for html click on the file and select save for pdf click on the save button or select file and select save if provided. To print select print from file menu for html and for pdf click on the print button

39. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau39 PAST PAPERS

40. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau40 Past papers These are sets of exam questions that have been done in the past KeMU library has a database of these papers accessible online. Are uploaded after exam period and are accessible immediately Some past papers are in pdf and others are available in html format.

41. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau41 Past papers – access To access online journals from library website: www.kemulib.blogspot.com click on ‘past papers’www.kemulib.blogspot.com You have to use computers in the KeMU network to access past papers. No password and username is required

42. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau42 Past papers – searching Type the unit code prefixed by ‘all:’ Use a part of the code if you are not sure of the full code i.e. ‘buss 114’ you may use ‘114’ or ‘buss’ The space in the code is important: ‘buss 114’ is not the same as ‘buss114’ The prefix ‘all:’ must be in small letters

43. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau43 Past papers – read, download, save and print To read for html click on the title of the past paper. For pdf click on the code or link and then click select the copy you need. To download just click the past paper code: pdf will always download before you can read To save: click on the file menu and select save or click on the save button for PDF. To print click on the print button or select print from the file menu.

44. Friday, October 02, 2015 Prepared and presented by Victor G. Kamau44 Thank you