Kostkova, Patty, Jawaheer, Gawesh, de Quincey, Edward, Madle, Gemma and Wiseman, Sue (2009) National electronic library of infection (NeLI/NRIC) - the best available evidence online: 9 years of experience. In: Cunningham, Paul and Cunningham, Miriam, (eds.) IST-Africa 2009 Conference Proceedings. IIMC International Information Management Corporation, Dublin, Ireland. ISBN 978-1-905824-11-3

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Abstract

Substantial budgets have been spent recently on ehealth programmes by many governments aiming to change the way healthcare is delivered in the 21st century. This paper discusses the background and evaluation of the National electronic Library of Infection in the UK (NeLI, www.neli.org.uk) and its subsidiary project the National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC, www.nric.org.uk) in the UK. An evaluation study conducted on NRIC demonstrated the growing interest in the portal, widening user base, search needs and a knowledge change. As the site has a potential for a very cost-effective technology transfer, international versions for non-English speaking professionals, localise sections and collections for those from other domains than infection are being investigated.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	This paper forms part of the published proceedings from IST-Africa 2009 Conference & Exhibition, held 6-8 May 2009, Kampala, Uganda.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	digital libraries, internet, user needs, infection, infection control
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Pre-2014 Departments:	School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Department of Information Systems & Digital Media
Related URLs:	Publisher Organisation
Last Modified:	08 Oct 2019 09:23
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/5561

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