Finding OT and PT Cochrane Reviews

Check out the informaiton on the website of University of Manitoba Health Science Libraries at:

Finding OT and PT Cochrane Reviews

Citing an altered image

An image has been altered for educational purpose (eg. presentation), so Fair Use applies. How should the "new" image be cited?

Courtesy to Julie Stielstra, Knowledge Resource Library, Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, IL, here is how the "new" image was cited:

iStockphoto [Internet]. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Getty Images c2009 -
[retrieved 2009 September 1]. Original available from:
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-6388736-human-lung.php. Edited
by: Cook S, 2009.

One publisher, Rebecca Lawrence from Product Manager, F1000 Pharma, also made comments on this:

As a publisher, we always look at how much has changed from the original
image. If there was very significant change to the point that you could
claim that you created the image yourself then you probably are ok for
fair use. If it is a more minor change based on an obvious copy of the
original image (which it sounds like this will be) then you should get
permission not just from the author (which is out of politeness rather
than necessity), but if the image is copyright-protected, then also
written permission from the publisher, which in some cases can incur a
small fee. The citation would normally read:

For a copied image: 'Reproduced with kind permission from [the normal
reference citation of the document from which the original image came]'

For an altered image 'Based on, with kind permission from [the normal
reference citation of the document from which the original image came]'

Or similar wording to that effect. As there is such a standard
structure to the lungs and there are hundreds of drawings of them which
are all going to look similar by default, she might be better to get the
whole image redrawn in-house so that as long as it looks different to
the original image then she should be completely free of copyright
issues.

Free TOC for scholarly journals

Scholarly journals - new free service makes keeping up-to-date easy

ticTOCs (http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/) is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service.

It's free, it is easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent
tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400
publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else
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issues of journals on almost any subject. Using ticTOCs, you can find
journals of interest by title, subject or publisher, view the latest
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import article citations into RefWorks (where institutional or personal
subscriptions allow). You select TOCs by ticking those of interest -
thousands of TOCs, within a tick or two (hence the name ticTOCs.)

Dissertation or theses databases

Below is a list of theses and dissertations websites; nearly all of them allow free searching:

Abes: Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Superieur (from France)

Australian Digital Theses Program

Caltech theses

Center for Research Libraries foreign dissertations

Cybertesis.net (University of Chile, provides access to 27,000 etheses from 35 world universities)

DART-Europe E-theses Portal (DEEP) (European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). Access to 106,000 doctoral theses.)

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (This is an international database of citations for dissertations in musicology that contains over 12,000 records. Dissertations are from approximately 1950 to the present. This is probably more appropriate for a public or music library.)

Digital Library and Archives (Digital Library and Archives allows searching for citations and abstracts of over 6,700 theses and dissertations. Free full-text access is provided for over 4,500 of these items.)

Directory of Dissertations in Progress (“The Directory contains 3,804 dissertations in progress at 170 academic departments in Canada and the U.S.” This is a citation database of dissertations in progress in the area of history.)

Dissertation Express (Online version of Dissertation Abstracts from UMI Proquest. Good for US theses. It’s free to search the database. To order full text costs $34 each. Digital Dissertations is a subset comprising all dissertations in the Dissertation Abstracts database with a degree date of the current and previous year. It’s easier to search and browse and you also get 24 page previews before you buy.)

Dissertation.com (Dissertation.com has just a few hundred dissertations and theses in its collection, but the site allows free, full-text access to the first twenty-five pages of each item.)

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UVa)

ERIC

E-Theses (from Finland)

EThOS (Full text of theses from the British Library. This is running in beta at the moment.)

Le Fichier central des thèses (French dissertations in progress)

Index to Theses (Subscription database)

M.I.T. Theses

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD provides access to citations from thousands of digital dissertations and theses that are in PDF format. A significant number of these resources are freely available in full-text and can be viewed online.)

OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/faq.html#who-can-use
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/world.cgi

PhdData: The Universal Index of Dissertations in Progress (PhdData has citations from several thousand dissertations in progress from various parts of the world.)

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) (Subscription database)

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)

RIM: Research in Ministry Online (RIM® Online is a freely available database that indexes DMin and DMiss projects from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. Indexing began in 1981.)

Rutgers Electronic Theses & Dissertations (RUetd)

TEL : thèses en ligne

Theses Canada Portal (Theses Canada provides access to bibliographic citations for all the theses in the National Library of Canada Theses Collection. Access to full-text theses is available for all items published between January 1, 1998 to August 31, 2002.)

Thèses de l'Université de Lyon 2

TREN: Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN provides citations to 6,800 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers. Items can then be purchased through this site. The opening page actually states that they have 10,000 theses/dissertations, but the search page allows searching of 6,800 items.)

University of Miami Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Vidyanidhi: Digital Library and E-Scholarship Portal (from India)

WorldCat dissertations and theses (Although the WorldCat Dissertations & Theses database is only available by subscription to FirstSearch, WorldCat is available for free. The advanced search screen allows you to limit by Content to Thesis/Dissertation. Here is the link: http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch)

Canadian Diabetes Association 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines

Canadian Diabetes Association 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines are available at the Canadian Diabetes Association website:

http://www.diabetes.ca/for-professionals/resources/2008-cpg/

Searching for Dissertations

Three main resources to search for dissertations:

Theses Canada Portal (free to search for abstracts)
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html

ProQuest Dissertation Express (free to search for abstracts)
http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/disexpress.shtml

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database (subscription requested in order to search)

Many academic libraries have instructions on their website on how to search for dissertations. Check the link below for an example from University of Alberta Libraries:

http://www.library.ualberta.ca/databases/databaseinfo/index.cfm?ID=168