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*HINARI Access to Research in Health Programme (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Spanish)
HINARI provides access to over 8000 scientific publications
for developing and transitional countries. The access is by
journal title, subject and language or link to the
participating publishers' websites. Also, there is access to
various e-books and publishers' reference sources. The site is
accessible in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Institutions are
required to register (see:
http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/registration.php
or email . Numerous training modules and other tools are located at
http://www.who.int/hinari/training/hinari/training/.
The site includes links to other sources of free access to
ejournals and regional ejournal indexes.
http://www.who.int/hinari/en/
Basic Library Management
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/
Handbook for Telecenter Staffs (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The Handbook provides an overview of the numerous aspects
that are involved in the planning and daily functioning of a
telecentre for community development. It is a self-learning
tool and management guide and also serves as a reference
resource for additional educational materials. The site is
organized into ten pdf file modules. Although not
specifically geared toward telehealth sites, the handbook
contains considerable useful information. It is maintained by
Cornell University, U.S.
http://ip.cals.cornell.edu/commdev/handbook.cfm
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/
Healthlink Worldwide (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Healthlink Worldwide provides technical assistance to
resource centres and publishers of health learning materials
in developing countries.
http://www.healthlink.org.uk
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 Yale University Library, U.S.
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/develop.shtml
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://www.healthlink.org.uk/PDFs/resource-centre-manual.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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