“putting irish health research on the map” aoife lawton lenus repository manager

“Putting Irish health research on the map”

Aoife LawtonLenus Repository Manager

aoife.lawton@hse.ie

Outline

• Background• Project timeline• Content workflow• Content & Functionality• Milestones one year on• Future

Project Timeline

VisionThe aim of Lenus is to become the primary online

resource for information relating to the Irish health services. Our commitment is to preserve, maintain and make freely available for research purposes, policy & research from authors and health agencies on the island of Ireland to the global community.

Lenus’ vision is to support Open Access research in Irish health by developing a single access point and repository for Irish health literature and research.

WorkflowLenus team

Save tonetworked drive

Scan watch thatpage & paper

reports

Submit metadata& upload file

QA metadataespeciallysubjects

CataloguingReviewGroup

Independentresearcher

Lenus sendsemail

notification

Irish healthorganisation

HSLGLibrarian

Student

HSE Librarian /HSE researcher

QUALITY OACONTENT

The contributors so far…

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Each HSE areais represented

“direct benefit to people’s health, build Ireland’s reputation for research and drive economic benefits”

Supporting research

• Maintains quality archive• ROI• Complements the health research

landscape• Showcases Irish health research to the

world • Fulltext for free

Recent Survey said..

“Based on your experience to date, pleaselist your key FREE relevant web resources?”

1. PubMed2. The Cochrane Library3. Intute4. Lenus5. Trip Database

IrelandLenus:4,646 items31 theses

Making Irish research visible

Putting Irish Research On The Map

Top 10 downloads Feb 2010RECORD TITLE NO. OF

DOWNLOADS

Guidelines for infection control in nursing/residential homes [HSE South Eastern Area] 270

Mental health assessment tools 2008 [HSE Dublin Mid-Leinster] 214

Directory of services 2004 / [East Coast Area Health Board] 294

Reformatory and industrial schools system report 1970 [chaired by District Justice Eileen Kennedy]

373

Trust in care: policy for health service employers on upholding the dignity and welfare of patient / clients and the procedure for managing allegations of abuse against staff members [HSE]

161

Guidance to nurses and midwives on medication management / [An Bord Altranais] 220

The years ahead: a policy for the elderly: report of the Working Party on Services for the Elderly / [chaired by Joseph Robins]

254

Report of the evaluation of standards in St. Mary's Hospital Phoenix Park 188

An introduction to the HSE 2005 [HSE] 232

Health status of the population of Ireland [HSE] 98

Milestones year 1• Successful migration of content• OAI compliant – indexed in Google• Listed in OpenDoar, Roar• Part of WorldWideScience Alliance• Available on HSE website• Content harvested by Researchscope• Focus group involvement• Average of 6937 visits a month, 05:25 min time

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