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An Introduction to Disaster Lit SM Cindy Love Siobhan ChampBlackwell Disaster Information Management Research Center December 10 2015 Agenda About NLM Disaster Information Management Research Center ID: 684955

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Efficiently Finding Elusive Disaster Health Information

An Introduction to Disaster LitSM

Cindy Love

Siobhan Champ-Blackwell

Disaster Information Management Research Center

December 10, 2015Slide2

Agenda

About NLM Disaster Information Management Research CenterOverview of Grey Literature on DisastersDisaster LitSM Database

Q & A

2Slide3

NLM Long-Range Plan 2006-2016

NLM will

:

Be a partner in Federal disaster preparedness and recovery

Demonstrate how medical libraries and librarians can provide critical disaster information services

Ensure access to health information and effective use of libraries/librarians in disasters

Establish a Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC)Slide4

Disaster 101

What is a disaster? emergency? catastrophe?public health emergency?

What are the phases of disasters/emergencies?

What do disasters have to do with health care?

SO, WHAT IS NLM’s ROLE?

What is disaster health information? Where can you find it?

What is information management?

What is public information? Communications?What kind of R&D can be done for disaster

health information?Slide5

What’s a ‘Disaster’?

Bioterrorism Chemical Emergencies Fires and Wildfires Geological Hazards

Disease Outbreaks

Radiation Emergencies

Weather and Storms

Large-scale

Humanitarian Assistance Emergencies

Large-scale AccidentsCasualties from Terrorism, Mass ShootingsMass Migration of RefugeesCivil DisturbancesPublic Health EmergenciesEvery disaster is a public health emergency. Slide6

Disaster Health Literature

Peer-reviewed scholarly literature

Journal articles

Books

Grey

Literature

ReportsSummariesSurveillance data

Training materials

Conference proceedingsSlide7

Grey Literature

Formal definition: “That which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business, and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers.”

Working definition:

Not in PubMed.

Disaster Lit:

NLM home of grey literature about disaster public health and medicine.

7Slide8

It’s Everywhere!Slide9

Managing the Flow of InformationSlide10

Disaster Lit:

The Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health http://

disasterlit.nlm.nih.gov

Grey Literature

Training

Guidelines

Conference materials

ReportsFact sheetsWebsitesSlide11

Disaster Lit Search Features

Search featuresStemmingBoolean AND, OR, NOT

Filters

Content

Over 9,000 recordsSlide12

Searching Disaster Lit

Pre-formulated searchesDisaster Lit home pageTopic PagesYou can add pre-formulated searches to your Website.DemosRefugee issuesZombies?!Slide13

RefugeesSlide14

Zombies Slide15

What can I do with the results?

SortChange number of records per pageLong or short versions of Annotations“Print this page”

“Download full record”

“Download brief citations”

Print/download only selected records, use checkboxesSlide16

Download Full RecordSlide17

Keeping Track of What’s New in Disaster LitSlide18

Mobile Optimized

Add icon to home screen: Step One

Step Two

Step ThreeSlide19

Icon on Home Screen!Slide20

What’s in Disaster Lit?

Disaster medicine, disaster public health, public health emergencies, broadly defined From an approved SourceSlide21

We do the ‘CRAP’ test for you

*

C

urrency

How

recent is the

information?

How recently has the website been updated?Is it current enough for your topic?* Reliability What kind of information is included in the resource?Is content of the resource primarily opinion? Is it balanced?Does the creator provide references or sources for data or quotations

?* Authority Who is the creator or author?What are the credentials?

Who

is the published or sponsor?

Are

they reputable?

What

is the publisher's interest (if any) in this information?

Are

there advertisements on the website?

* Purpose/Point of View Is this fact or opinion?

Is

it biased?

Is

the creator/author trying to sell you something?

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Evaluating Sources

Evaluation is by DIMRC librarians and subject expertsAuthoritative and credibleHigh-quality content, kept current

Includes materials for a professional audience

Meets reasonable expectations for Web access, usability, navigation, and availability

Includes English-language materials

Non-commercial, no advertising,

non-advocacy

http://disaster.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/envirohealthlinkscriteria.htmlSlide23

Tracking Source Evaluations

Over 1,900 Source records1,680 approved Sources, including all 800 U.S. state agencies with disaster-related responsibilities100 Sources reviewed as ‘top priority’220 records documenting Sources not approvedSlide24

Some of the “usual suspects”Slide25

Selection Guidelines for Materials

From an approved SourceEmphasis on substantive documents

Professional audience

English

Free or requires

free registration

Resources

NOT already in PubMed or MedlinePlus 25Slide26

Disaster Lit: Professional Audience

All health professionals who may be responding to a disaster or public health emergency outside their regular dutiesTrained medical and humanitarian volunteersEmergency/disaster planners and respondersAll responders coping with public health needsMedical Reserve Corps, Community Emergency Response Teams, etc.

Those responsible for special needs/vulnerable populations

Health care system planners

Federal, state, tribal, and local planners and responders

Researchers

JournalistsSlide27

Tools of the ‘Selection’ Trade Slide28

Building on Disaster Lit Capabilities

Disaster Lit provides 88% of the ASPR TRACIE Technical Resources Library records.Disaster Lit provides a subset of tools for researchers for the NIH Disaster Research Response Project.An API (application program interface) is available on request for using Disaster Lit on your website.

The discontinued

PEDPrepared

database was merged into Disaster

Lit.

Thinking of starting a database of disaster health information materials? Retiring a database? Ask about using Disaster Lit to ensure sustainability and avoid duplicate effort. Slide29

Disaster Lit: More than You Might Expect

Broad and deep coverage of public health and medical aspects of every kind of disaster Resources from 100s of organizationsRobust Web features for easy searching and downloadingUse Disaster Lit on your websites: pre-formulated searches, RSS feed

Current awareness tool, keep up with disaster-related grey lit

Talk

with us about using our capabilities to meet your program

goals.Slide30

Thank

you!Cindy Love

cindy_love@nlm.nih.gov

Siobhan Champ-Blackwell

siobhan.champ-blackwell@nih.gov

Disaster Information Management Research Centerhttp://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov Slide31

Thank you for attending!

To receive MLA CE credit:

Fill out the online survey for the class at:

http://surveymonkey.com/s/disaster_CE

. Select the "Monthly Conference Call" radio button in question #1.  Once you complete and submit the survey, a link will pop up that will send you to an online MLA CE certificate that you can personalize with your name and the date of the CE for 1 contact hour.

The recording and slides will be added online:

https://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/dismeetings.html