Springer Usage Growth in Developing Countries Initiatives.

(21/10/2009)

Research4Life is the collective name for three partnerships (HINARI, AGORA and OARE) which seek to achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals by providing the developing world with access to critical scientific and social science research.

This project is “Perhaps the biggest step ever taken towards reducing the health information gap between rich and poor countries”, according to former WHO Director-General Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland. According to a survey in 2000, one of the key problems for health researchers in developing countries was access to subscription journal literature. The World Health Organization approached Yale University about this problem, and in cooperation with publishers like Springer, HINARI was launched in 2002. Nowadays the Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) provides access to over 5,500 peerreviewed journals, of which 568 are published by Springer related to Medicine and Allied Health Sciences.

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DANS Easy

(12/03/2009)

What is DANS:
DANS – Data Archiving and Networked Services – is an institute under the auspices of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) which is also supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Since its establishment in 2005, DANS has been storing and making research data in the arts and humanities and social sciences but also in the geospatial sciences permanently accessible. To this end DANS itself develops permanent archiving services, stimulates others to follow suit, works closely with data managers to ensure as much data as possible is made freely available for use in scientific research.

What is DANS EASY

DANS EASY - Electronic Archiving System is open to all researchers in the arts and humanities and social sciences. It allows them to permanently store their data and to search data themselves. This includes data from the former socio-scientific Steinmetz Archive and the former Netherlands Historic Data Archive. Archaeologists can also make use of EASY to incorporate the data sets of their current research and research from the recent past. EASY gives access to a large number of research datasets. Data and documentation can be downloaded free of charge. For some datasets permission from the depositor is necessary before the data can be downloaded.

As a researcher or data manager, you can also use EASY to deposit your data and accompanying documentation. As soon as you have done so, your data will be stored in a permanent and sustainable manner. The data will be available to other researchers under the conditions you specified.

Searching for data:

DANS offers ‘Open Access’ to a large number of data files from various disciplines. Data can be downloaded immediately and free of charge. In a few cases, prior permission from the depositor is needed. The entire collection is housed in the ‘Electronic Archiving System’ DANS EASY.

To be able to download the data, a onetime registration is required.

Searching for data and downloading can be done by discipline:

• Humanities - History
• Humanities – Archaeology
• Socio-cultural Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Behavioural Sciences
• Life Sciences and Medicine
• Geospatial sciences
• Statistics Netherlands (CBS) Data

Upgrade to EndNote X2

(14/01/2009)

EndNote X1 version will be upgraded to EndNote X2
The EndNote X2 gives much more extra features.

This memo does not provide a fairly complete list of new or changed features in version X2 of EndNote but a four-minute video demonstration of the new features in EndNote X2 you can find on the EndNote website. More information is available from our website One interesting and convenient new feature in EndNote X2 is: Find Full Text. 

In this memo the transfer to EndNote X2 is explained for:

1      students using a desktop

2      staff and PhD students using a desktop

3      laptop users

1       Students using their desktop (i.e. the clusters):

When you start up your computer (desktop) tomorrow EndNote X2 will be “installed”.  Your created libraries will automatically open in EndNote X2; no conversion is necessary.
After installing the new version Endnote X2, by this ‘pushed’ installation in the clusters,  it might be necessary to run the Endnote config in order to get the toolbar in MS Word.
Via Start>Programs>Endnote>Configure Endnote
The ‘Endnote config’ window will open
Choose the option: "Configure EndNote components for me"
Click on next and finish this very small procedure.
(this will also remove older versions of EndNote)
By using this any user can ‘switch on’ or ‘switch off’ the toolbar in MS-Word !!!

 2       Staff and PhD students using a desktop:

Staff and PhD students should run the following file:
file://\\Itcnt01\Softlib\Licensed\Endnote\X2\Endnote_Staff_Install.bat

Maybe it is also necessary to run the EndNote config as mentioned by case 1. Please follow the instructions from there if you do not have the EndNote X2 toolbar in Word. 

 3       Laptop users:

If you use older versions of  EndNote on your laptop you have to come to the library to install EndNote X2. So you can choose the moment to transfer to EndNote X2. Also Mac users can come to the library to install EndNote X2 for Mac.
Maybe it is also necessary to run the config as mentioned by case 1. Please follow the instructions from there if you do not have se the EndNote X2 toolbar in Word. 

If you have any questions concerning this memo, or if you are facing trouble using EndNote X2 please do not hesitate to contact me ext. 202 or koelen@itc.nl