Dissemination of public health information: key tools utilised by the NECOBELAC network in Europe and Latin America
Autor: | Carlos A. Agudelo Calderón, Daniela Marsili, Elisabetta Poltronieri, Paola De Castro |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2012 |
Předmět: |
Knowledge management
Best practice Information Dissemination journals Organizational culture Health Informatics Library and Information Sciences information and communication technologies Community Networks electronic journals research networks Access to Information 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health Information Management Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology open access Publishing 030505 public health business.industry 4. Education health information needs Capacity building Original Articles Journalism Medical knowledge transfer publishers and publishing Organizational Culture publication output Europe Latin America Information and Communications Technology Journalism Public Health Periodicals as Topic 0305 other medical science business Knowledge transfer education and training |
Zdroj: | Health Information and Libraries Journal Health Information & Libraries Journal |
ISSN: | 1471-1842 1471-1834 |
Popis: | Background: Open Access (OA) to scientific information is an important step forward in communicationpatterns, yet we still need to reinforce OA principles to promote a cultural change of traditional publishingpractices. The advantages of free access to scientific information are even more evident in public healthwhere knowledge is directly associated with human wellbeing.Objectives: An OA ‘consolidation’ initiative in public health is presented to show how the involvement ofpeople and institutions is fundamental to create awareness on OA and promote a cultural change. This ini-tiative is developed within the project NEtwork of COllaboration Between Europe and Latin AmericanCaribbean countries (NECOBELAC), financed by the European Commission.Methods: Three actions are envisaged: Capacity building through a flexible and sustainable training pro-gramme on scientific writing and OA publishing; creation of training tools based on semantic web tech-nologies; development of a network of supporting institutions.Results: In 2010–2011, 23 training initiatives were performed involving 856 participants from 15 countries;topic maps on scientific publication and OA were produced; 195 institutions are included in the network.Conclusions: Cultural change in scientific dissemination practices is a long process requiring a flexibleapproach and strong commitment by all stakeholders.Keywords: education and training, electronic journals, health information needs, information and commu-nication technologies, journals, knowledge transfer, open access, publication output, publishers and pub-lishing, research networks.Key MessagesImplications for Practice• NEtwork of COllaboration Between Europe and Latin American Caribbean countries (NECOBE-LAC) supports cooperation between European and Latin American countries to make it easier tospread valuable heath information online.• Modular training material on scientific writing and open access (OA) publishing is available on theProject website to be used to ‘train the trainers’ and then for local training activities.• Course replication at local level contributes to create major awareness on health information dis-semination embedding best practices at workplace.Implications for Policy |
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