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On Monday, April 4, 2022, the HITIHE (Health Information and Technology for Improved Health Education in South-East Asia) Team of the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sebelas Maret (FK UNS) held an online workshop for Health Librarians with the theme 'Finding Quality Open Access Sources'. Workshop participants came from FK UNS, Tropical Medicine Center, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gajah Mada (FKKMK UGM), National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) in Cambodia, University of Health Sciences (UHS) in Cambodia, Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Belgium, and Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The speaker in the first day of the workshop was Riah Wiratningsih, S.S., M.Si, the Head of the Information and Communication Technology Development Division of the UNS Library. The event was opened by Maria Zolfo, M.D., PhD, specialist in Infectious Diseases from ITM Belgium.

In this activity, materials were about what an Open Access Journal is and how to access an Open Access Journal on Pubmed, Scopus and Web of Science. Participants consisted of health librarians as well as teaching and academic staff from the Faculty of Medicine, especially in the field of tropical infections. Health librarians played an important role in intermediary knowledge in assisting academic staff and publication requirements. Given the importance of health librarians, it was necessary to develop knowledge in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). In order to support a well-functioning health library service, health librarians needed to be given training in the management of innovative online platforms and how to support the needs of staff (and students) in accessing quality health information, especially on open digital platforms (Open Access Resources). At the end of the material, participants were given three case scenarios related to tropical medicine, namely cases about Leptospirosis, Malaria and Tuberculosis then participants were asked to search directly using keywords that they set themselves and compared them on the three platforms (Pubmed, Scopus, and Web of Science).

This activity was held as a form of cooperation in the HITIHE project between UNS, UGM, ITM, NIPH, UHS, and Maastricht University in building the capacity of health librarians by exchanging experiences of health librarians at each university with supervisors from ITM Belgium and Maastricht University, Netherlands. Committee hoped that with this workshop, health librarians could support teaching and academic staff in information management and scientific writing and support the delivery of scientific writings to open digital platforms.

The workshop will take place in three sessions. The second session will be held on April 11, 2022 with the theme Finding a target journal for publication and the third session on April 25, 2022 with the theme Digital Library/Institutional Repository.

 

 

Reporter: Muh. Abu Dawud
Editor: Ari Kusbiyanto
Translator: Wartini