Public Health Information Access
Public Health Departments typically fall outside the service realm of academic and hospital libraries that offer full-text access to information for researchers, faculty and students. Budgets do not address desktop access to the public health literature and they typically do not have access to assistance with searching and information management.
| In expanding the Public Health Information Access project (PHIA), the goal is to better understand the usefulness of providing public health departments with access to selected licensed e-resources. This project links public health departments with virtual and in-person resources to improve information access. |
Public Health Departments (PHDs) in seven states participate in the project by hosting a Digital Library Page offering desktop access to licensed resources made available through specialized pricing. With continued funding plans are under way to increase the number of state public health departments participating in the project.
The project offers training and access to the following resources:
- PubMed, implementation of LinkOut for full-text access
- 45+ full text titles from Annual Reviews, NEJM, Springer Verlag, Oxford University Press, University of Chicago
- Stat!Ref contains access to: ICD-9-CM, DSM-IV-TR, Infectious Diseases, Medical Epidemiology, the ASM Manual of Environmental Microbiology and other well-known public health titles.
- CABI's Global Health Database related to the environment, ecology, food safety, social science and psychology resources.
- EndNote X4 for bibliographic management to improve quality of publishing and managing bibliographies.
- Subsidized interlibrary loan or article deliver will be available through a designated local library.
With commitments from public health departments to provide contact persons, IT capacity, training sessions and participation in assessments; the resource libraries honors their commitments by providing document delivery, consultation on NLM products and other library tools, and help facilitate relationships where possible.
For more information, you can contact Karen Dahlen and Javier Crespo.
