The CUK Library invites all members of staff and students to celebrate this year’s Open Access  Week (OAW) with us. The Library has planned a series of activities geared towards creating sensitization and awareness of the open-access concept and open-access information resources during the week. We will also create awareness of the full range of services and resources that the Library offers. For this purpose, we will set up a customer service point on the ground floor of the Learning Resource Centre on Tuesday 25th, and Friday 28th October 2022. We will work with the innovation week team on Wednesday 26th, and 27th October 2022. Venue: The Library Resource Centre – Ground floor

A Google Scholar profile is a very simple way of collating your publications and citations to them so that others can find your work. Step 1: Creating your basic profile Log on to scholar.google.com and click the “My Profile” link at the top of the page to get your account setup started. On the first screen, add your affiliation information and university email address, so Google Scholar can confirm your account. In the home page field, you can paste the link to your departmental faculty profile or the CUK home page link Step 2: Adding your publications Google Scholar will provide a list of publications it thinks belong to you. Read through the list and select the ones you have authored by checking the box. Click on the blue shaded arrow at the top right corner of the page Step 3: Settings Choose the option of either “Applying article updates automatically” or “Email me updates for review”. I do not recommend the first option especially if your name is shared by many people Congratulations! You now have a Google Scholar Profile Step: Getting back to your profile Simply log in to your email Open Google Scholar Click on My Profile at the top right corner of the page

Ebscohost research platform host multidisciplinary databases with an extensive and highly customizable search interface.   Some of the databases hosted include: Database Coverage eBook Academic Collection, eBook Collection, eBook Business Collection The e-Book packages contain a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic disciplines Academic Search Complete   A multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Business Source Complete Includes more than 1,300 journals. Humanities Source Includes full text access to more than 1,400 journals, OpenDissertations OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. How do I access the online resources? To access the Ebsco Research databases, log in to the RemoteXs platform and scroll down the list of databases to get to Ebsco Nb: If you are not yet registered on RemoteXs, register by clicking on this link Scroll down the list of databases hosted on the Ebscohost platform The check boxes against the names of the databases are all checked/selected by default. Deselect the databases you may not be interested. This is important because searching through all the databases will not only slow you down, but it will also crowd your search results with resources that may not be relevant to your search needs Click on Continue and proceed with your search You can use the filters on the left panel of your search results page to narrow down your search to information resources that are the most relevant