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Accessing the Scientific Publication that You Need

Access to scientific publications has become one of the ultimate wishes of most people who find themselves in knowledge-producing industries. Researchers, lecturers, students and librarians, particularly those in developing countries go through a lot in order to have access to these publications. Most academic and research institutions however, have libraries that facilitate access to these resources, mostly through what has become known as institutional subscriptions. In an effort to reduce the gap in knowledge production and knowledge accessibility, most international stakeholders like the WHO, UN, INASP, USAID and a host of them have undertaken initiatives to compel “big publishers” to make their products available for free or at a lower cost to researchers in low and middle income countries. For instance, in order to help achieve its SDGs, the UN through its various agencies came out with the Research4Life programme to provide expensive and extensive scientific publications in

Assignment 2: Reference Management

Follow the instructions given to complete this assignment.     Topic: Smartphone and medical related App usage among medical students of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho INSTRUCTIONS You can use any academic database for this assignment. (Google Scholar, PubMed, ScienceDirect, etc)  Download five free full-text articles that relate to the topic above Create a folder in Mendeley with the name First_Article In the folder, build a library with your downloaded articles Create a sub-folder with the name Chapter_One and download a sixth article with bibliographic details given under No. 6 below:  Payne, K.F.B., Wharrad, H., & Watts, K. (2012). Smartphone and medical related App use among medical students and junior doctors in the United Kingdom (UK): A regional survey.   BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making ,   12 (1), 121. Take a screenshot of your Mendeley Library showing the main and sub-folders. Save the screenshot as a PDF document with the n