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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Scholarship opportunities in Sweden

The Swedish Institute announces scholarship opportunities for international students. The Swedish Institute Study Scholarships targets highly qualified students from Africa: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. (The program is also open for applicants from Bangladesh, Bolivia and Cambodia)

About 140 scholarships altogether will be awarded for higher education studies in Sweden on Master’s level. The grants cover tuition fees, living costs and a one time travel grant.

5th African Conference for Digital Scholarship & Curation, Durban South Africa, 26-28 June 2013

Data collation, analysis and distribution are an integral part of digital scholarship and hence increasingly shape data management and curation activities in Africa and globally. Data infrastructures for advanced education, research and innovation are defined across a broad spectrum from virtual worlds and online gaming to laboratory instrumentation and large scale earth observations. This conference aims to surface the opportunities and challenges that data activities and infrastructures bring to current and future research.

The Planning Committee invites proposals to chair relevant sessions; or abstracts for papers, posters and workshops presented at the conference.

Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2013.

Details of the call are available online

List of new books added at the Special Reserve Section, MUHAS Library - 5th December 2012

List of new books added at the Special Reserve Section, MUHAS Library - 5th December 2012

Retrieve the list from MUHAS website

Friday, November 30, 2012

“ADVANCED ONLINE SEARCH TECHNIQUES WORKSHOP” FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS AT MUHAS (14 December 2012)

Target group: Postgraduate students at MUHAS
Date: Friday, 14th December 2012
Time: 2-4.30 pm
Venue: Undergraduate ICT Computer Lab, MUHAS
Programme of the workshop:
-  Advanced searching techniques – Googlelogy, and other techniques
- Library Online catalogue, Institutional repository, search e-resources tool
- Abstract and citation databases – Google scholar, sciencedirect, Scopus, Scirus
Note: interested participants are requested to submit their details at the Special Reserve Section, MUHAS library Or send emails to library@muhas.ac.tz

By MUHAS Library management

The First MUHAS Scientific Conference 2nd-4th, 2013

The Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) announces its first scientific conference that will be organized with support from Sida  and other development partners. We welcome all researchers, local and international, working in various areas of health to share their research findings with other stake holders in this conference.
The Conference will be held at the Kunduchi Beach Hotel, Dar es Salaam.

Conference Theme: Health Research Towards Poverty Alleviation.

Important Deadlines

  • 15th February 2013: Deadline for Abstract submission
  • 15th March 2013: Deadline for Early-registration
  • 22nd March 2013: Notifications of Abstract Acceptance
Click here to access the website

Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) for full-text searching in over 200 highly ranked journals is now available at MUHAS library

"Access Current Health Reserach" 
 
TEEAL - The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) for local area networks is now available at MUHAS library

TEEAL is an offline full-text and searchable database of articles from 200 high-quality research journals in agriculture, health and other related disciplines.

Search and browse offline database of full-text articles from over 200 journals in Agriculture, Animal science, Biotechnology and microbiology, Chemistry and biochemistry, Economics and social science, Environment and natural resources,
Food science and nutrition, Forestry, Human medicine and physiology, and Plant and soil science

Please visit MUHAS library computer lab, first floor to access the offline database.

Monday, November 26, 2012

List of new books in health and allied sciences added at the Special Reserve Section, MUHAS Library - 27th November 2012

List of new books at the Special Reserve Section, MUHAS Library - 27th November 2012
TITLE    AUTHOR COPY  YEAR
Nursing in contemporary healthcare practise Jenkson, Tim 1 2008
Capital investment for health:case studies from  Europe Rechel, Bernd 1 2009
Pathology review manual and workbook for  USMLE step 1 Baker, Peter 1 2002
Tanzania demographic and health sarvey 2010  WHO 3 2011
Get ahead! Specialties:250 SBA for finals Bach, Fiona 1 2010
Reseach methodology in the medical and biological scieeences Laake, Peter 1 2007
Aclinical guide to supportive and palliative care for HIV/AIDS O'Neill, Joseph  1 2003
Tackling chronic disease in europe:strategies, interventions and challenges Busse, Reinhard 1 2010
Skills for midwifery Practice Jonhson, Ruth 2 2006
Pharmacology condensed  Dale, M.M 1 2009
Person- centred councelling in action Mearns, DAVE 1 2008
Short answer questions and   MCQ in anaesthesia and intesive care Dashfield, Adrian 1 2004
Who model formulary 2008 Stuart, marc C. 1 2009
Pediatric nutrition handbook Kleinman, Ronald 1 2009
Social work and human  development Crawford, Karin 1 2003
Social work practise:assesment, planning, interventon and  review Parker, Jonathan 1 2003
Nursing and working with other people Goodman, Benny 2 2008
Apley's consise systerm of orthopaedidics and therapy Solomon, Louis 1 2005
 Theory and practise of cousselling and therapy Nelson-Jones, Richard 1 2006
BTEC first  health and social care Hetherigton, Alison 1 2008
MRC Pych:passing the  CASC exam Saver, Justin 1 2009
Berne& Levy Physiology Koeppen, B.M 1 2008
Principles and Practice of infectious disease Mandell, G.L 1 2005
Codex alimentarius:organically produced foods FAO 1 2006
The renal system.- 2nd ed Field, Michael 1 2010
One stop doc- respiratory system Dartnell ,J 1 2005
Promoting Health Ewles, L 1 2003
Phlebotomy:worktext&procedures manual.-2nd ed Warekois, Robins 1 2007
Nursing practice hospital and home Alexander Margaret F 1 2006
Harison's principle of internal medicine Isselbacher, Kurt 1 2005
Brunner& Suddarth's textbook of medical surgical nursing Smeltzer, Suzanne C 2 1996
Psychiatric &mental health nursing:the craft of caring Barker Phil 1 2009
Poverty & human development Mkukuta 1 2009
Revision exercise based on textbook of biochemistry Vasodevan, D.M 1 2005
Providing support at home for children& young people who have complex health needs Hewitt-Taylor, J 1 2008
Browse's introduction to the investigation and management of surgical disease Browse, Norman L 1 2010
Harrison's principles of Internal medicine.-14th ed Isselbacher, Kurt 1 2001