the all ireland public health repository
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Open Access Resources for Public Health
Widening access to Irish and European Open Access Research
Kevin Balanda, Adam McCune & Louise Bradley
All Ireland Public Health
Repository
Institute of Public Health in IrelandAll-Ireland body:
• North-South cooperation • Inequalities in health• Social determinants of health
Three work strands:• Research & information• Policy support• Capacity building
www.publichealth.ie
Partners
The Health Well’s catalogues
Interventions
Policy
Data
Evidence
News
Organisations
Managing & sharing documents
Free user (“My Well”) accounts • user profile• save searches• create Reading Lists• create Citation Lists
Social media tools
OA Research Alerts
Training – workshops/seminars
• Physical Activity and Nutrition
Intervention (PANI) Tool
• Community Profiles Tool
• Public Health Information System (PHIS)
• Chronic Conditions Prevalence Tool
Online exploratory tools
Rationale for the repository
Threats to public health agencies and their documents
Need to secure public health documents relating to:
• Cross-sectoral public health agenda• Health inequalities • Social determinants of health
This focus complements health and social services repositories
All-Ireland
Aims
To establish a thematic repository within The Health Well website
To base content on The Health Well’s catalogues with links to its larger metadata cache
To incorporate an action orientation into the repository:• Discovery & document management tools• Online exploratory tools
To contribute to the development of the OA movement on the island
All Ireland Public Health RepositoryProvides access to other OA resources
Extends online reach of key Irish documents
Provides online tools to manage, understand and use documents
Archives key Irish documents
Where possible, redirects users to original document rather than the archived version
repository.thehealthwell.info
Searching the repository
Access to online exploratory tools
How we developed the repository With written consent from partners, DOIs registered with mEdra
The repository was:• Registered with Open Archives Initiative• Listed with OpenDOAR – The Directory of Open Access Repositories • Joined OpenAIRE • Joined RIAN
Operational in January 2015 Currently developing protocols for identifying and managing content (duplications)
Content identification
Potential content is identified by the Knowledge Translation Officer using a number of methods:• Standardised key word searches of larger metadata cache• Manual searches of the cache • Manual searches of partner websites• Browsing other key public health websites • Other ad-hoc methods
Decision to either include/exclude content based on agreed criteria
Content management
When suitable content is identified, it is passed on to the Resource Manager.
• DOI is registered• Resource is metadata tagged • Metadata is added to the larger cache and relevant
catalogue
Any comments or questions?
Thank you