Google scholar metrics: the easy way to gauge the visibility of your scholarly publications

Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. While most researchers are familiar with the well-established journals in their field, that is often not the case with newer publications or publications in related fields - there're simply too many of them to keep track of! Scholar Metrics summarize recent citations to many publications, to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research. To get started, you can browse the top 100 publications in several languages, ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. You can also search for publications by their titles, and then compare the publications that are of interest to you. Finally, if you wish to see which articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click on its h-index number to view the articles as well as the citations underlying the metrics.

Tanzania Journal of Health Research has just published its latest issue

Tanzania Journal of Health Research has just published its latest issue. Visit the website to view the table of contents an ddownload journal articles.

Tanzania Journal of Health Research (TJHR) aims to facilitate the advance of health sciences by publishing high quality research and review articles that communicate new ideas and developments in biomedical and health research. TJHR is a peer reviewed journal and is open to contributions from both the national and the international communities.

7th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training.

Date: 23 - 25 May 2012
Venue: Le Palais des Congres de Contonou, Benin
Registration: http://www.elearning-africa.com/

The Continent's largest gathering of high-level policy makers, decision makers and practitioners from education, business and government - do not miss out on this key event for developing eLearning capacities in Africa.

REMINDER: DIGITAL REPOSITORIES WORKSHOP AT MUHAS (12-15 JUNE 2012)

Once again, the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences through its Directorate of library Services is organizing a workshop on digital repositories together with the Information, Training and Outreach Center for Africa (ITOCA) and Royal Tropical Institute of Netherlands (KIT).
The registration is still open, Register today.
 Venue: The Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Tanzania
Date: June 12-14, 2012
Course Fee: US$75
Facilitators from Cornell University in USA, Information, Training and Outreach Center for Africa (ITOCA), Institute of Development Studies in UK, and Royal Tropical Institute of Netherlands (KIT)
 Course Main Topics:
· What are Digital Repositories, their use, history and purpose?
· Greenstone, D-Space, AgriOceanDpace, Drupal, E-Print
· How much money do you need? Planning the budget
· Digitization of material
· Managing the digital library
· Developing successful Information Literacy instruction programs
· Developing technology infrastructure

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New subscribed journals in medicine, physical and life sciences at MUHAS

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society series A Each issue of Philosophical Transactions A is devoted to a specific area of the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences. This area will define a research frontier that is advancing rapidly, often bridging traditional disciplines.

 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society series BEach issue of Philosophical Transactions B is devoted to a specific area of the biological sciences. This area will define a research frontier that is advancing rapidly, often bridging traditional disciplines. The journal is essential reading for scientists working across the biological sciences.

Proceedings of the Royal Society series A Proceedings A has an illustrious history of publishing pioneering and influential research articles across the entire range of the physical and mathematical sciences. These have included Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, the Braggs' first account of X-ray crystallography, Dirac's relativistic theory of the electron, and Watson and Crick's detailed description of the structure of DNA.

Proceedings of the Royal Society series B Proceedings B is the Royal Society's flagship biological research journal, dedicated to the rapid publication and broad dissemination of high-quality research papers, reviews and comment and reply papers. The scope of the journal is diverse and is especially strong in organismal biology

Biology Letters Biology Letters publishes short, highly-innovative, cutting-edge research articles and opinion pieces accessible to scientists from across the biological sciences. This Royal Society journal is characterised by stringent peer-review, rapid publication and broad dissemination of succinct high-quality research communications

Journal of the Royal Society Interface Journal of the Royal Society Interface is the Society's cross-disciplinary publication promoting research at the interface between the physical and life sciences. It offers rapidity, visibility and high-quality peer review and is ranked fourth in JCR's multidisciplinary category.

Interface Focus Interface Focus is an independent journal launched in January 2011. Interface Focus is the Royal Society's cross-disciplinary themed publication promoting research at the interface between the physical and life sciences. Each issue, containing fully peer-reviewed articles, concentrates on a specific cross-disciplinary subject

Notes & Records of the Royal Society Notes and Records is an international journal which publishes original research in the history of science, technology and medicine up to and including the 21st century.

Call for papers: The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management, 4-6 September 2012. South Africa

Organised by the Department of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Johannesburg

New submission dates:
31 May 2012 Deadline for submission of full papers to be published in the Conference Proceedings
30 June 2012 Deadline for the submission of abstracts (250 words) for PowerPoint presentations
CONFERENCE WEBSITE: www.uj.ac.za/ickm2012.

LATINA COURSE IN AFRICA,JUNE 2012

Makerere University Library in partnership with Oslo University College will be conducting the LATINA (Learning and Teaching in a Digital World) course in Africa for the first time in June 2012.  The course is offered by the LATINA Lab at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Science (HiOA). The Lab develops, demonstrates and provides intensive training in teaching and learning methods that are based on the current state of-the-art and emerging trends in user-oriented ICT.

The course starts with three online lectures on May 15, May 22 and May 29, combined with introductory readings and assignments. The on-site training takes place at Makerere University Library from June 18th -29 June, 2012 LATINA Lab in the New Building Extension Level 2. The course is a mix of presentations, discussions and hands-on work with computers and audio-visual equipment. A high level of student activity and commitment is required. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops. The application form should be accompanied with a motivation statement. Please note that strong individual motivation, documented by a personal statement of interest, could replace institutional backing. Participants are encouraged to study information about the course on the web http://africa.latina.pedit.hio.no/?page_id=5511 before applying.  The two weeks’ training is practice oriented and quite intensive.

Through a grant from INASP, nine participants have been partially sponsored from the East African Community (Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda). Sponsorship includes: Air tickets, Accommodation, Lunch and refreshments. Each listed country should nominate three candidates to apply for the course. However, institutions are encouraged to sponsor other staff members to attend the course. Admission to the course will be on first-come first-serve basis. In the spirit of cost sharing, all participants are advised to apply for sponsorship from their institutions to cover: Registration fee: $150, Transport to and from the Airport and supper. Application deadline is 20th April, 2012. Please send the application form, and supporting documents by e-mail to universitylibrarian@mulib.mak.ac.ug and copy to agnama@mulib.mak.ac.ug or post/deliver to:

University Librarian

Makerere University Library

P. O Box 7062,

Kampala-Uganda.

For more details, visit the LATINA AFRICA website http://latina.africa.pedit.no. You can also contact the secretariat at universitylibrarian@mulib.mak.ac.ug for more clarification.

On behalf of the Organising Committee, I wish to welcome you to Uganda and assure you that we are doing everything possible to make your stay here comfortable.