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Paola De Castro, Daniela MarsiliPublishing Unit, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

STRATEGIES TO PRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION IN PUBLIC HEALTH

The experience of the NECOBELAC project in Europe and Latin America

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EMMILE in libraries and beyond Milan, 27-29 February 2012 2

Information literacy and public health

ContentsBACKGROUND

PURPOSE

NECOBELAC EXPERIENCEin Europe and Latin America

Show HOW involvement / training help empowering people (students, teachers, librarians, young researchers)

Training and networking academic and research institutes in public health

better use information, improve communicationshare knowledge

to

to improve well-being

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EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION is crucial to create awareness among different stakeholders

Background

LACK OF HEALTH INFORMATION or unclear messagescan have serious consequences on human well-being

INFORMATION LITERACY

Researchers can usefully collaborate with teachers, students and librarians TO DISSEMINATE HEALTH INFORMATION

hygiene, nutrition, drug addiction, alcohol, tobacco smoking, environment, life styles, etc.

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Fundamental value in every field of knowledgeplays a strategic role in science communicationparticularly in Public Health

HEALTH everybody needs information (WHERE, WHAT, WHY, WHO, WHEN)

HEALTH LITERACY represents the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to

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INFORMATION LITERACY AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Definition provided by WHO, 1999

HEALTH LITERACY (information & communication) AS A MEANS FOR HEALTH PROMOTION

By improving people’s access to health information and their capacity to use it effectively, health literacy is critical to empowerment.

information

•gain access to•understand •use

in ways which promote and maintain good health

Public Health

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WHERE’S CHALLANGE FROM EMMILE?Integrating multimedia information literacy into education in public health

Information literacy

communicate in ways that invite interaction, partecipation and critical analysis

they both trascend disciplinary boundaries

recognize the value of sharing knowledge, skills and responsibilities.

there is space to work together as integrated teams

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PurposeDiscuss NECOBELAC experience in Europe and Latin America

To create awareness on health communication To provide tools to improve scientific writing and open access publishing

To develop a network supporting training and sustainable activities

to improve their capacity to search, produce and disseminate

health information through different channels

Different targets: teachers, students, librarians, young researchers



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NECOBELAC project

It is a European project (2009-2012) working in the field of PUBLIC HEALTH

NECOBELAC acts through a network supporting training activities in scientific writing and open access publishing

improve scientific writing promote open access publication models foster technical and scientific cooperation

between Europe and Latin America

www.necobelac.eu

Network of Collaboration Between Europe & Latin American-Caribbean countries

It aims to:

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NECOBELAC partnersin Europe and Latin America

Centro Latino Americano e do Caribe de Informação em Ciencias da SaudeSao Paulo, Brazil

The University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK

Consejo Superior de InvestigacionesCientíficas, Madrid, Spain

Universidad Nacional de ColombiaInstituto de Salud PúblicaBogotá, Colombia

Universidade do MinhoBraga, Portugal

Istituto Superiore di SanitàRome, Italy

Project coordinator



NECOBELAC … and the human factoran important key for every initiative

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NECOBELAC key points

NECOBELAC strategy1.Training activity2.Innovative training tools3.Networking activity

This approach offers mutual benefits EU-LAC and supports cultural change in production, use and dissemination of health information


BI-DIRECTIONAL APPROACH sharing experiences and initiatives between Europe and Latin America within a common strategy

All project partners contribute to NECOBELAC training programmeproviding contents, participating in training activities as trainers and supporting local training

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1. NECOBELAC two-level training activity

NECOBELACtraining strategy is based on:

training courses for trainers

T2 COURSES

local training courses

T1 COURSES


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NECOBELAC across national bordersConsiderations on language barriers

The role of NATIVE LANGUAGES should never be disregarded

even ifENGLISH is now the lingua franca for scientific communication…

Training and networking across national borders in native languages help meeting local needs, overcome cultural barriers within a common strategy


NECOBELAC speaks languages: English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish


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2. Innovative training tools: NECOBELAC topic maps

Topic maps are based on sematic web technology They associate topics and link them to selected online resources

Scientific publicationOpen access

AREAS

They have a triple SUBJECT-PREDICATE-OBJECT structure

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NECOBELAC topic maps

Scientific publication


Discussion on HOW and WHY topics are interrelated favours participation and active learning

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NECOBELAC topic maps

Open access


Participants help building up the most appropriate strategies

Esquema del mapa de publicación científica

Esquema del mapa de acceso abierto

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Topic maps are useful to create flexible local training programmes

Topic maps are:

Topic map contents

can be selected according to target information needs

modularmodular

extensible extensible

flexible flexible

portableportableable to be re-purposed able to be re-purposed



Behind the topic maps


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Publication and diffusionpaper, online, conferences, web, etc.

NECOBELAC training courses

To be considered as a WHOLE and take the most appropriate decisions to organize local training courses

Scientific informationexistence, originality,

appropriateness, selection,flexibility, etc.

Manuscript preparationauthorship, scientific editing,

formats and standards

POSSIBLE CONTENTSChannel

Selection of the most appropriate channel,copyright considerations, impact,

online availability, etc.

Evaluationpeer review,

inclusion in databases, use, impact, new metrics, etc.


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NECOBELAC TRAINING MODULES

Scientific journals

Introduction to scientific publication

Scientific articles

Peer review and quality indicators


scientific writing

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Open Access Journals

Introduction to Open Access

Open Access Repositories

Open Access Policies

NECOBELAC TRAINING MODULES

open access


NECOBELAC Topic mapsNECOBELAC Topic mapswww.necobelac.euwww.necobelac.eu


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3. NECOBELAC networking

+Public health institutions, editors, librarians, researchers in Europe and Latin America

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Partner NECOBELAC

Participants in T1 and T2

The interaction among NECOBELAC project partners and T1 / T2 training course participants stimulates collaborations and exchange of experiences

Nowadays, about 200 EU and Latin American institutionsEMMILE in libraries and beyond Milan, 27-29 February 2012

P. De Castro - Curso NECOBELAC T1. - Universidad de Guadalajara, 22-24 de agosto 2011

Training and replication

involving countries in the network

involved institutions

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T1 n. 8Training for trainers

T2 n.31Local trainingreplications

Brazil – Sao Paolo, 2010 Italy – Rome, 2010Colombia – Bogotà, 2010Spain – Madrid, 2011Argentina - Buenos Aires, 2011Portugal – Braga, 2011Mexico – Guadalajara, 2011Ireland – Dublin, 2012 (planned)

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4 Europe + 11 Latin America

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NECOBELAC training / networking


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Teaching and learning across Europe and Latin AmericaA new tool for each course


Guide to use topic maps(site>training>topic maps) in PDF and video

Link to full-text al texto completo

Short description

Scheme

Hints for discussion

http://62.204.194.27/necobelac/indexing.jsp

http://62.204.194.27/necobelac/indexing.jsp


NECOBELAC newsletter to inform community

…and support trainers in their replication activities: see what the other have done


CONSIDER LOCAL NEEDS

A declatation, if needed...


Involving people through interviews and social networks


Necobelac as an adventure

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NECOBELAC NECOBELAC OA week 2011OA week 2011

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Considerations from NECOBELAC experience

Two years experience in training/networking show:

Key role of creating awareness on MIL among stakeholders

Role of collaboration and direct involvement of different stakeholders(researchers, teachers, students, librarians) to facilitate

- understanding of the issues at stake (health)- development of new skills (scientific writing and OA)- promotion of life long learning strategies - information exchange, communication and wider dissemination

Necessity to improve MIL skills at different levels


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