Electronic Information Resources for Health Researchers and Professionals- INFORM
INASP and the International Network for Online Resources and Materials (INFORM) have run a number of joint training workshops aimed at people working in the health sector (researchers, practitioners and information professionals) during 2005. Additional workshops are also being planned during 2006. Materials from one of these workshops are provided here.
These materials have been produced and provided by INFORM, an international collaborative network that has its administrative base in the Faculty of Medicine at Uppsala University in Sweden. INFORM provides on-site, subject-focused training about on-line information resources to health professionals and health information facilitators in low- and middle-income countries. The INFORM logo, which shows two persons joining hands, reflects our philosophy of promoting collaboration to span the information divide between countries.
The particular units made available here were prepared especially for the medical librarians and other health information facilitators participating in a training workshop organized by WHO Tanzania, AHILA, and INASP and held in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, 11-16 July 2005.
All web addresses included in the materials have been checked during the month immediately before the workshop, and all were valid. When addresses change, updates will be made in the on-line versions of the material.
The materials have two purposes.
- One is to facilitate training and learning during the workshop itself. This is particularly true of the advanced units.
- The other purpose is to provide the workshop participants with materials that they can use when they train others about on-line information retrieval.
Materials outline
- Introduction for Workshop Participants
- Introduction for Health Professionals
- Saving Time and Maintaining Quality
- Introduction to Literature Searches
- Formulating Searches
- Finding and Acquiring Books and Book Chapters
- Finding References to Journal Articles
- Accessing Full Text Articles
- Tertiary and Reference Resources
- Finding Information on WWW
- How to Judge a WWW Site
- Finding Information on Diseases
- Humanitarian Assistance Resources
- Geographically Based Health Resources
- Nutrition Resources
- Gender Based Violence Resources
- EBM Resources
Workshop materials
All of the materials used in this workshop are freely available to download and use - please read our copyright and conditions of use statements first. We do ask you to complete a simple registration form (so that we can track usage and interest in these materials). We are also very keen to hear from people who have used or are thinking of using the materials - all are most welcome.
The materials are available in English and a subset of them in Vietnamese.
Download workshop materials
PLEASE NOTE: these materials were created and last updated as detailed below.
The workshop materials are in a mixture of MS Word and Powerpoint formats. The files have been compressed to aid enable quick download. You will need WinZip or similiar compression software to uncompress these files.
Exercises - high resolution and with images [821kb] - updated July 2005- Exercises - no images [268kb] - updated July 2005
- Presentations [440kb] - updated July 2005
- Exercises and presentations from "Seeking Online Health Information", INASP/INFORM Training Workshop, CIMSI, Hanoi, Vietnam, July 2006 [470kb] - updated June 2006
INFORM
Uppsala University, c/o IMCH,
University Hospital
SE-751 85 Uppsala
Sweden
Contact person: Dr Martha Garrett, Director
Tel:
Fax: +46-18-508013
Email: inform.programme@kbh.uu.se