Trials registers, results registers and other research registers
Increasing national and international interest in identifying, recording and promoting access to healthcare trials and their results has seen the development of large numbers of trials registers, and more recently, results registers. Trials registers provide information on current and recently completed research and results registers provide information on completed research. This type of information is useful for research commissioning, health technology assessments, systematic reviews and product development.

Trials registers, results registers and other research registers are developing quickly and provide challenges in terms of identification, efficient searching and record management. This half day continuing education course will highlight the key trials registers and trials results registers and will offer practical advice on searching registers and managing register records.

Biography
Julie Glanville is Project Director, Information Services, York Health Economics Consortium, University of York. She holds an MSc in Information Processing from the University of York. She has a wide experience in librarianship in the UK and USA.

Carol Lefebvre is the Senior Information Specialist at the UK Cochrane Centre. She has an Msc in Library and Information Studies from Loughborough University. She has previously worked at the Cairns Library, University of Oxford Medical School, UK.

Julie Glanville and Carol Lefebvre are co-authors of the searching chapter of the Cochrane Handbook and have many years’ experience of identifying trials evidence. Both have published extensively in peer-reviewed journals. They are experienced teachers and are in popular demand as trainers.

BioMedical WEB-Nuggets
General search engines serve the biomedical librarian little in a scientific context. Special search engines come closer to fulfilling this task. However, there are great differences between them. New ones are emerging every week. Some last some vanish as quickly as they appeared. There are now many full text search engines and repositories, RSS-feeds search engines, RSS-feeds repositories and gadgets. In addition technical platforms for embedding search engines or make them available while reading a scientific text for example in a WORD-file or a webpage have become available. Likewise there are addons to search engines with astounding facilities in terms of gaining instant access to information. The question poses itself: What is good and will last, what is new and going strong. This workshop introduces the up and coming sites and software as well as it reviews the proven. In addition insight into how the somewhat more challenging applications are made the best use of, will be provided. The course will be highly up-to-date, as the author will monitor the Internet for new arrivals until a few days before the course will actually be given. All contents will be available to take home on a CD-ROM set in HTML, so it will be possible to start browsing right from there. 

CEC 02

Scholarly Publishing and Open Access
The course will present a general overview of evolution and current situation of scholarly communication system and scholarly publishing but will focus on Open Access (OA) to promote research visibility, usage and impact. Open Access origins, objectives, definitions, routes (“Green” and “Gold”) and types (“gratis” and “libre”) will be presented and discussed. The most relevant and recent developments of Open Access will be also analyzed.

The teacher is Eloy Rodrigues, a portuguese librarian well known for spreading the word about open repositories.

Biography Eloy Rodrigues is the director of the University of Minho Documentation Services. In recent years he has devoted much of his work to the development of digital libraries, education and training of librarians and library users and the study of the scholarly communication system. In 2003, Eloy Rodrigues lead the project to create RepositoriUM - the institutional repository of Minho University and he has directed the project ever since. At the end of 2004 he drafted the formal policy of Minho University on open access to its scientific output. His other main focus is on promoting and advocating Open Access and institutional repositories in Portugal, leading and coordinating the technical team that, since 2008, has been developing the RCAAP (Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal = Portugal Open Access Science Repository) project. At European level he was a member of the EUA (European University Association) Working Group on Open Access and he leads the participation of Minho University in several EU (FP7) funded projects related with Open Access and repositories.