FHI360-SATELLIFE Health Information and Technology

This web site is for both professional and non-professional librarians new to health or hospital libraries. It seeks to provide instant access to quality resources which will help the medical librarian meet the needs of the users. Key topics discussed are Administration of the Medical Library, Collection Development and Interlibrary Loan and Library-related and Additional Resources. The material was developed by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, USA. http://nnlm.gov/rsdd/management/

Donation Programs for Books, Journals and Media (Focus on Low-Income Countries)

This site links to organizations that supply printed materials specifically for health related organizations. It is maintained by the Health Sciences Library, University of Buffalo, U.S. http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/dokuwiki/hslwiki/doku.php?id=book_donations

DSPACE

DSPACE is a software package for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations to build open digital repositories. DSpace preserves and enables access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets. Free and downloadable from this site. The program can be installed ‘out of the box’ and customized to fit the needs of any organization. http://www.dspace.org/

eGranary Digital Library (Focus on low-income countries)

Also known as ‘The Internet in a Box’, the eGranary Digital Library provides digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access. Through a process of garnering permissions, copying Web sites, and delivering them to intranet Web servers, this project creates electronic libraries that can deliver millions of multimedia documents. The library can be instantly accessed by patrons over their local area networks or stand-alone USB drives. The hardware and software for this project is purchased but at the cost-recovery level. http://www.widernet.org/egranary/

Equator Network (Focus on Low-Income Countries)

Launched in the fall of 2007, the ‘Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research’ Network is an initiative that seeks to improve the quality of scientific publications by promoting transparent and accurate reporting of health research. The site contains a resource centre for authors, journal editors and peer reviewers and reporting guideline developers plus, from early 2008, educational material and training modules for these groups. The Network is an international group of experts on health research methodology, statistics and reporting. http://www.equator-network.org/

Greenstone Digital Library Software

This suite of software is for building and distributing digital library collections by organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project/University of Waikato and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and Human Info NGO. It is open-source, multilingual software and downloadable from this site. http://www.greenstone.org/

HealthConnect International: Bridging the Health Information Gap (Focus on Low-Income Countries)

The organization is a not-for-profit consulting group whose mission is to enhance health improvement programs in low-resource settings through the cost-effective application of information and communications technologies (ICTs). The site contains a summary of the organization’s services and ‘resources’ - links to a Learning Resource Center toolkit, listing of e-health conferences and training plus a learning resource ‘network’ and ‘e-health in practice’ newsletter. http://www.healthconnect-intl.org/

INASP: Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)

PERI is an INASP sponsored programme of support for information production, access and dissemination for research partners in developing and transitional countries utilising new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). It provides a range of capacity building services, including access for developing countries to a wide range of major scientific, technical, medical, social science and humanities materials. The site describes the programme, and details of materials available to eligible countries and is available in English, French, Spanish and Russian. Institutions are required to register for access. http://www.inasp.info/file/5f65fc9017860338882881402dc594e4/perii.html

Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)

The project is a Food and Agriculture Organization (UN) e-learning initiative to train individuals and support institutions and networks in the effective management of agricultural information. Available free via the Internet or as CD-ROMs, the project consists of a series of self-paced, distance learning modules on the management of electronic resources, building electronic communities, investing in information management and digitization and digital libraries. Almost all of the material is applicable to information management in the health sector. http://www.imarkgroup.org/index_en.asp

Licensing Digital Information: Developing Nations Initiatives (Focus on Low-Income Countries)

The site identifies programmes that bring high quality, peer-reviewed sciences journals to developing and transitional countries for free or minimal cost. It is organized alphabetically by publisher/organization with links to information on access procedures. The site is maintained by the Council for Research Libraries, U.S. http://liblicense.crl.edu/

Partnerships In Health Information (PHI) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)

This website describes the organization and activities of Phi. The organisation creates partnerships and twinning between health science information services in the "North" and developing countries. It works to build health information services in developing countries through professional development, information technology and co-operative initiatives. http://www.partnershipsinhealthinformation.org.uk/

Resource Centre Manual, 2nd edition (Focus on Low-Income Countries)

This new edition was launched in October 2003. It contains detailed information on how to set up and manage a health 'resource centre.' Topics covered include: planning, management and finance, space and furniture, collection development, organizing information and computer/database usage. The content is available in PDF format (258 pages, 3.6MB) at the URL below. The site is maintained by Healthlink Worldwide, UK. http://library.catie.ca/PDF/P2/21192.pdf

Source: Support for Resource Centres (Focus on Low-Income Countries)

This Source project has been developed to offer support and guidance to resource centre practitioners working in primary health care and disability sectors in developing countries. By broad subject categories, the site outlines how to develop and maintain a resource centre including the use of ICT and other Internet resources. http://www.asksource.info/support.htm

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