Rwanda HIV/AIDS-related digital library

About these collections:

The Rwanda HIV/AIDS-related digital library opened to clients in May 2006. Documents in these collections are Rwanda-specific with a focus non-published items - often called “gray literature”. There are currently two collection:

• Verified: documents that have been reviewed and satisfy our usability CRITERIA
• Non-verified: documents that have not yet been reviewed or do not pass our quality criteria.

How to find information in these collections

There are 5 ways to find information in this collection:

• You can search for particular (key) words that appear in the
• In the TITLE
• In the RESUME or TABLE OF CONTENTS
• The entire DOCUMENT
• You can search for a particular document title by pressing the titles a-z button. This brings up a list of documents in alphabetic order.
• You can search for a document by a particular publishing organization by pressing the organizations button. This brings up a list of organizations.
• You may search for documents of a particular TYPE by pressing the Document type button
• You may search for a document according to the SECTOR(s) to which it is related pressing the sector button

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For additional information on Greenstone Digital Library Software that is used to build these collections, please go to http://www.greenstone.org

Criteria for document “searchability” and usability

Shown below is the checklist version 1.2 used to verify that the documents of the type [Studies and Abstracts] meet minimum criteria for assuring its “searchability” and “usability”. Other checklists are used for other “types” of documents.

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CNLS, TRAC, MOH/Division of Plan, TulaneUniversity

Criteria for Inclusion in Rwanda HIV/AIDS Virtual Library: Studies and Abstracts

Obligatory?	Criteria	Criteria met? yes/no	Comments
Yes	Title accurately describes the document
Yes but not for abstracts	Resumé present?
No	Resume in both English & French?
No	Table of Contents present?
Yes	Hypotheses to test or objectives stated?
Yes	Methods section present?
Yes	Results section present?
Yes	Conclusion section present?
Yes ??	Limitations section Present?
Yes	Name(s) of author(s) given?
Yes	Publishing/producing institution/NGO given?
Yes	Date when document published given?
Yes	Tables and graphs titled and labeled?
No	Contains citations?
No	Has bibliographic references
No	References/citations formatted correctly?
Yes	Geographic zone covered is described
Yes	Characteristics of the study population.
No	Estimate of size of study population (N) indicated
Yes	Sample size (n) indicated?
Yes	Sampling method described?
Yes	Study design/method described?
Yes	Start/end dates of data collection indicated
Yes	Data collection tool/method described
Yes	Statistical/analytic method described?
If used	Statistical software used.
Yes	Results written clearly/understandably?
Yes	Conclusion(s) written clearly/understandably?
Yes	Conclusion(s) mention the results?
Yes	Connection between results and conclusions logical and convincing?

Type of document

 

Studies (including…..)

Progress reports

Project descriptions

Sectors

 

Agriculture

Health

Education

Gender and..

Youth and sports

 

(the health sector is always listed last among the sectors unless, of course, it is the only sector implicated in the study)