Hi all,
I'm a postgraduate student at Loughborough University and am doing a study
which aims to evaluate the online help and support mechanisms for electronic
information services (EIS), in particular the provision of online tutorials
and other electronic training resources by EIS providers, in order to
identify instances of good practice which can be used not only to inform the
creation of effective learning resources by vendors, but also in aiding the
development of online information literacy programmes increasingly used by
librarians and other information professionals.
The study involves identifying and establishing a set of criteria to be
applied to selected EIS, which can comprise individual databases, electronic
journal collections, specialised Web information portals, and hosts and
providers of multiple full-text, abstracting and citation datasets. Thus
far, I've concentrated on the JISC and CHEST mediated EIS, plus links on
UKOLUG's Web site for discovering major / popular online information systems
to be included in my study. There are currently 14 that I've looked at:
1. BIOSIS Previews
2. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
3. Dialog
4. EDINA
5. Emerald Fulltext
6. International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
7. ISI Web of Science
8. OCLC FirstSearch
9. Ovid
10. ProQuest
11. PsycINFO
12. Resource Discovery Network
13. SOSIG
14. MIMAS
I was wondering if members of the list know of others that have substantial
or interesting publicly-available online training resources, which I can
include in my study?
Best Regards,
Vincent Teng
Loughborough University
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