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
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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