• Introduction
• Information literacy for postgraduate students
• The Internet and research
• Using the library for research
• Accessing quality information
• Managing your references
• Avoiding plagiarism in your thesis writing
The library was established in April 2002 and currently
located at level 1 & 2 KWSP Building.
The branch library at Ulu Pauh Campus was officiated on 28th December 2009.
Information literacy skills is one of the key set of
determined generic skills for postgraduate students
Helen Fallon and Mary Antones, 2007
•Internet offers huge information resources for researchers and
students
•Online contents are accessible via web
based platform
•Open access contents are accessible
Google Books, Google Scholar, Blogs, etc.
Pubmed, ScienceDirect, Springer, etc.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), repositories (ROAR), digital archives, etc.
Google Scholar uses the Google search engine to search for
scholarly materials, such as
research papers, preprints, theses, books, and reports, coming from a
variety of academic publishers, professional societies, repositories
and universities sites.
Users can have complete access to full text content of scholarly
materials displayed on Google Scholar as long as UniMAP Library
subscribed to the resources
•The library is offering access to more than
85,000 e-books and 9,000 e- journals via
the Internet
•These contents are published by prominent
academic publishers, commercial
aggregators and professional institutions
•Subscription cost for e-journals is almost
RM 2 million per year
Access to web resources is available through our information gateway @ http://mylib.unimap.edu.my
Remote access facility via EZProxy server at UniMAP Library allow users to access to digital library
resources anytime, anywhere as long as you are connected to the
Internet
Registered users are required to enter their username and password for authentication purpose
1. Login to UniMAP Library website at http://mylib.unimap.edu.my 2. Click on e-Resources button
3. Enter username and password 4. Click on login button
January 2010
•E-journals @ the library are publisher based
contents
Listing of subscribed e-journals from various publishers are available on
All full text databases offered two types of searching mode;
•Basic Seach
•Advanced seach
•UniMAP Library subscribes to many full
text databases
•Subscriptions are based on
selected segments (e-journals / e-books / reviews and many
others)
•Users are not able to acquire
•Present subcription includes
content coverage from year 1996 to current year
•Content coverage from 1996 and backward is sold separately
•Request full text content from Interlibrary
Loan (ILL) service
•Free-based service
•Request are forwarded to local universities
•E-mail item details to
•E-books at UniMAP Library is exceeding
90,000 titles
•Books especially handbooks provide background and theoretical
information
•The library also provide access to
Access to 5,000 engineering books
Is limited for January – December 2010 only
Access to full text contents from Year 2000 (publication year) up to 2009.
Research findings indicate that in all fields,
cited proceedings are younger than cited literature in general,
suggesting that proceedings are a medium of more recent knowledge than are all types of
literature in general.
•Conference papers are also available on open
access platforms via institutional repositories
•It is much easier and faster for researchers to
share their scholarly work with others through
Institutional Repositories (IR)
http://roar.eprints.org/
•The library subscribed to ProQuest Digital
Theses Full Text (PQDT)
•Only includes theses produced by students at American Universities
•Full text theses are also available from ETHOS offered by various
educational institutions
PQDT Open is a new service provided by ProQuest, which
also has the fee-based ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database.
The PQDT Open can be used to find full text of over 3,000
http://dspace.mit.edu/
For more information, please contact:
Mazmin Mat Akhir Senior Librarian
Phone: 04-9798777
Email: [email protected]
