scholarly journals Ebola Outbreak Response: The Role of Information Resources and the National Library of Medicine

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia B. Love ◽  
Stacey J. Arnesen ◽  
Steven J. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Outbreak Response ◽  
National Library ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Journal Literature ◽  
The Us ◽  
Variation Database ◽  
Disaster Event

AbstractThe US National Library of Medicine (NLM) offers Internet-based, no-cost resources useful for responding to the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak. Resources for health professionals, planners, responders, and researchers include PubMed, Disaster Lit, the Web page “Ebola Outbreak 2014: Information Resources,” and the Virus Variation database of sequences for Ebolavirus. In cooperation with participating publishers, NLM offers free access to full-text articles from over 650 biomedical journals and 4000 online reference books through the Emergency Access Initiative. At the start of a prolonged disaster event or disease outbreak, the documents and information of most immediate use may not be in the peer-reviewed biomedical journal literature. To maintain current awareness may require using any of the following: news outlets; social media; preliminary online data, maps, and situation reports; and documents published by nongovernmental organizations, international associations, and government agencies. Similar to the pattern of interest shown in the news and social media, use of NLM Ebola-related resources is also increasing since the start of the outbreak was first reported in March 2014 (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2014;0:1-4)

scholarly journals THE FORMATION OF THE REPOSITORY OF PERSONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC INDEXES: DEFINITION OF REQUIREMENTS AND STATEMENT OF TASKS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Filippova
Keyword(s):  
Information Resources ◽  
Free Access ◽  
National Library ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Bibliographic Information ◽  
Biographical Research ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Bibliographical Information ◽  
Universal Structure ◽  
Definition Of

The purpose of the article. The paper is devoted to updating the study of the formation of the repository of personal bibliographic indexes as a part of the research and information project of the Institute of Biographical Research of the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine "Ukrainian National Biographical Archive". The methodology is based on the use of methods of scientific analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, review-analytical, classification, and terminological methods. These methods have identified the repository as one of the most representative forms of presentation of consolidated biobibliographic resources, designed to provide free access to bibliographic information about documents and their full-text versions. The scientific novelty of the paper lies in the intensification of scientific research on repositories as a universal structure for the presentation of electronic data of various thematic areas, including biographical and bibliographical content. Conclusions. The historiography of the problem of electronic repositories of consolidated information resources developing is highlighted. It was conditionally divided into two groups of sources. The first one includes works devoted to the formation of integrated biographical and bibliographic information resources. The second group presents the experience of creating institutional repositories by domestic scientific institutions. The requirements for the repository of the personal bibliographic indexes of the "Ukrainian National Biographical Archive" are determined. The tasks, that the Institute of Biographical Researches of the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine has as its disposer on the providing the accumulation, preserving, systematizing, and representing the records of biobibliographical character by giving the open access to descriptive, bibliographical information and electronic versions of the records, are formulated.

PORTA and NDL Search: digital archive portals at the National Diet Library

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Toshiyasu Ōba
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
National Library ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
The Us ◽  
Research Facilities

The National Diet Library (NDL) is Japan’s national library, established in 1948 to provide research facilities for members of parliament, but now used most by the general public. Similar in purpose and scope to the US Library of Congress, the NDL is a deposit library, and collects copies of all publications that originate in Japan. For nearly a decade and a half the Library has been making digital reproductions of paper documents and printed material, but the pace at which it has added to its digitised content has speeded up remarkably in recent years. It has also developed and continues to enhance integrated search services that allow users to cross-search the databases of many other museums, libraries, archives and research institutes in Japan and retrieve information resources from them. A digital archive of records of the earthquake and related disasters that struck Japan in March 2011 is under way.

Social media and e-learning use among European exercise science students

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 470-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Rigamonti ◽  
A Dolci ◽  
F Galetta ◽  
C Stefanelli ◽  
M Hughes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Exercise Science ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Online Data ◽  
National Differences ◽  
E Learning

Abstract With the rise of digital technologies, electronic learning and communication tools are becoming a firm part of academia to promote knowledge of health sciences. This study sought to analyse the attitude of students regarding social media and digital learning for study purposes in sport and exercise science. A survey was carried out with a questionnaire (20 main items) in six sport science faculties, equally spread across Germany (G), Italy (I) and the United Kingdom (UK) between February and October 2017. The focus areas were students’ usage of social media (Facebook, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, Skype, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube) for academic purposes and their use of e-learning. Data were analysed by quantitative and qualitative methods. 229 students participated in the study (G: 68, I: 121, UK: 40). While YouTube was mostly used for receiving knowledge, WhatsApp and Facebook showed additional preferences for peer contacts for learning purposes and knowledge discussions. Preferred online data sources were PubMed (77%), free access journals (67%), YouTube (66%) and Wikipedia (63%). Often used digital learning materials were own universities’ PowerPoints (77%), scripts (59%) and scientific articles (53%). However, some preferences showed national differences. The evaluated participants showed an overall high use of social media and e-learning tools for their studies. Students would like more digital learning sources made available to them by their institutions. However, some differences in preferences of digital learning or communication tools may exist and this should be considered for international approaches to promote health knowledge among students.

scholarly journals Digital Services of the National Library of Korea: Current State and Tasks

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 673-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sulhee Cho
Keyword(s):  
Information Resources ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
National Library ◽  
Digital Service ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Information Materials

The National Library (NL) of Korea holds about 16.3 million digital information materials. Since 2016, the NL has been receiving legal deposit copies of e-books, digital copies of publications, magazines and newspapers. The article analyses digital services of the NL of Korea and identifies the main problems in this area.The NL of Korea is the main library of the country, actively developing the inter-library relations, cooperating with libraries of the Republic of Korea and around the world. It developed the Reference service “Ask a Librarian”, created the Catalogue of digital books, the System “Free Access to Korea” and offers the services on providing information in alternative forms for people with disabilities. The NL designed the automated library system and implemented it in 1094 library. The NL of Korea started the work on creation of the China-Japan-Korea Digital Library Portal. There is a number of problems: acquisition of electronic legal deposit copies, lack of the content for some projects, lack of information services, optimized for the users requirements. The purpose of this study: professional dialogue in the world library community for the exchange of experience, knowledge information resources and for sharing of library content. The article presents the Three-year digital service plan. The author describes the goals and objectives of the NL of Korea: the expansion of the library holdings in the digital environment, the improvement of operation of digital resources, the activation of mobile services and popularization of humanities knowledge through digitization.The principle of operation of all Korean libraries is changing from data collecting and information storage to implementation of information. The author concludes that libraries should quickly respond to the information technology changes. Nowadays, there increases the importance of collecting and storing of all information resources of the national value.

scholarly journals Creation of the Resources on Culture and Art in Russian by the National Libraries of the CIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 617-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena L. Sukhotina
Keyword(s):  
Information Resources ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
National Library ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Electronic Publications ◽  
Cis Countries ◽  
National Libraries

The author present the results of study of the activities of national libraries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on the creation and promotion of electronic information resources.The article analyses the open resources on culture and art presented in Russian on the official websites of the national libraries (NL) of the CIS countries.The author identified and structured the main types of resources of the National libraries of the CIS: electronic publications; electronic libraries; databases; virtual exhibitions, collections; photo-, video-, audio reports. The article presents in detail the resources of the National Libraries of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Republic of Uzbekistan and Ukraine. The author notes that the most common resources are electronic exhibitions and collections, but other types of resources — electronic publications, electronic libraries, databases — are rarely created. Innovation in the activities of the NL of the CIS on the creation of information resources is preparation of electronic reports on the results of past cultural events. The leader in creating and providing online resources in Russian on culture and art is the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, followed by the National Library of Uzbekistan named after A. Navoi and the National Library of Belarus. Monitoring of Russian-language sources of information on the websites of the NL of the CIS countries demonstrated that the efforts of libraries in the creation and presentation of resources on culture and art are quite active. Their further development by the libraries will contribute to the expansion of knowledge about the national culture and history of the CIS countries, disclosure and promotion of the collections and widening of the boundaries of free access to the national cultural and historical heritage.

scholarly journals Faster than warp speed: early attention to COVD-19 by anti-vaccine groups on Facebook

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth C Kalichman ◽  
Lisa A Eaton ◽  
Valerie A Earnshaw ◽  
Natalie Brousseau
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Vaccine Safety ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Vaccine Information

Abstract Background The unprecedented rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines has faced SARS-CoV- (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy, which is partially fueled by the misinformation and conspiracy theories propagated by anti-vaccine groups on social media. Research is needed to better understand the early COVID-19 anti-vaccine activities on social media. Methods This study chronicles the social media posts concerning COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines by leading anti-vaccine groups (Dr Tenpenny on Vaccines, the National Vaccine Information Center [NVIC] the Vaccination Information Network [VINE]) and Vaccine Machine in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic (February–May 2020). Results Analysis of 2060 Facebook posts showed that anti-vaccine groups were discussing COVID-19 in the first week of February 2020 and were specifically discussing COVID-19 vaccines by mid-February 2020. COVID-19 posts by NVIC were more widely disseminated and showed greater influence than non-COVID-19 posts. Early COVID-19 posts concerned mistrust of vaccine safety and conspiracy theories. Conclusion Major anti-vaccine groups were sowing seeds of doubt on Facebook weeks before the US government launched its vaccine development program ‘Operation Warp Speed’. Early anti-vaccine misinformation campaigns outpaced public health messaging and hampered the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.

scholarly journals Longitudinal Change of Mental Health among Active Social Media Users in China during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 833
Author(s):  
Tianli Liu ◽  
Sijia Li ◽  
Xiaochun Qiao ◽  
Xinming Song
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Longitudinal Change ◽  
Symptom Checklist ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Repeated Measures Analysis ◽  
Machine Learning Models

During the COVID-19 pandemic, every day, updated case numbers and the lasting time of the pandemic became major concerns of people. We collected the online data (28 January to 7 March 2020 during the COVID-19 outbreak) of 16,453 social media users living in mainland China. Computerized machine learning models were developed to estimate their daily scores of the nine dimensions of the Symptom Checklist—90 (SCL-90). Repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare the SCL-90 dimension scores between Wuhan and non-Wuhan residents. Fixed effect models were used to analyze the relation of the estimated SCL-90 scores with the daily reported cumulative case numbers and lasting time of the epidemic among Wuhan and non-Wuhan users. In non-Wuhan users, the estimated scores for all the SCL-90 dimensions significantly increased with the lasting time of the epidemic and the accumulation of cases, except for the interpersonal sensitivity dimension. In Wuhan users, although the estimated scores for all nine SCL-90 dimensions significantly increased with the cumulative case numbers, the magnitude of the changes was generally smaller than that in non-Wuhan users. The mental health of Chinese Weibo users was affected by the daily updated information on case numbers and the lasting time of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Avenues to News and Diverse News Exposure Online: Comparing Direct Navigation, Social Media, News Aggregators, Search Queries, and Article Hyperlinks

2021 ◽  
pp. 194016122110091
Author(s):  
Magdalena Wojcieszak ◽  
Ericka Menchen-Trevino ◽  
Joao F. F. Goncalves ◽  
Brian Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
News Websites ◽  
The Us ◽  
Social Media Platforms

The online environment dramatically expands the number of ways people can encounter news but there remain questions of whether these abundant opportunities facilitate news exposure diversity. This project examines key questions regarding how internet users arrive at news and what kinds of news they encounter. We account for a multiplicity of avenues to news online, some of which have never been analyzed: (1) direct access to news websites, (2) social networks, (3) news aggregators, (4) search engines, (5) webmail, and (6) hyperlinks in news. We examine the extent to which each avenue promotes news exposure and also exposes users to news sources that are left leaning, right leaning, and centrist. When combined with information on individual political leanings, we show the extent of dissimilar, centrist, or congenial exposure resulting from each avenue. We rely on web browsing history records from 636 social media users in the US paired with survey self-reports, a unique data set that allows us to examine both aggregate and individual-level exposure. Visits to news websites account for about 2 percent of the total number of visits to URLs and are unevenly distributed among users. The most widespread ways of accessing news are search engines and social media platforms (and hyperlinks within news sites once people arrive at news). The two former avenues also increase dissimilar news exposure, compared to accessing news directly, yet direct news access drives the highest proportion of centrist exposure.

Chemical toxicology searching: a collaborative evaluation, comparing information resources and searching techniques

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bawden ◽  
Alison M. Brock
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Failure Analysis ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Data Bases ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Chemical Toxicology ◽  
Collaborative Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Project ◽  
Data Banks

A collaborative evaluation project has been carried out by fourteen UK and European organisations, both industrial and public sector, to compare information resources and searching techniques for chemical toxrcology information. The project had two objectives: to improve the participants' own expertise in this area, and to allow an objective evaluation of searching methods. Eight test queries were designed and searched by the participants, and the results evaluated semi-qualitatively, with an extensive failure analysis. Printed sources, online data-bases, data-banks, and in-house files were included in the evaluation. The results are presented and discussed, including both comments on strengths and weaknesses of sources and search techniques, and recommenda tions for future improvements to facilitate access to chemical toxicology information.

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