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
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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
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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.
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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