VINE: Volume 33 Issue 2

The research‐practice spiral

Sue Childs, Sharon Dobbins

This article describes a partnership between the Information Management Research Institute, Northumbria University and the Durham and Teesside Health Libraries Alliance which aims…

Where systems meet services: towards evidence‐based information practice

Andrew Booth

Evidence‐based information practice is an important paradigm that is now emerging in mainstream information work from within healthcare information. This paper aims to provide an…

Establishing an electronic document delivery service for the BMA library

Clare Aitken, Mohammed Alom, Ann‐Emily Brew, Steve Davis, William Forrester, James Hickey, Cheryl Lines, Sonia Martinez‐Roura, Sonia Martinez‐Roura, Clare O’Brien, Fiona Robertson, Jane Rowlands, Sandra Santana‐Feio, Susanne Staal

The paper describes the development of an electronic document delivery service for the professional association of doctors, the BMA. Workflow, including integration with searching…

NMAP: the UK’s nursing Internet gateway

Rod Ward

The massive growth in health related information on the Internet has led to concerns about the quality of that information. This paper explores the need for quality filtering and…

Interactive Web design for cardiac patients

Maria Boehm, Paul Rogers, Pamela Watt, Tom Spyt

Long term follow up of heart patients in Leicester leads us to believe that there is a need for another form of communication with patients, their families and friends. The…

Principles for designing hospital intranets for hand‐held computer users

Mohammad Al‐Ubaydli

This paper discusses Web design for compatibility with hand‐held computers, illustrated with examples from medical contexts. Hand‐helds’ small screens make them a challenge…

Institutional repositories

Robin Yeates

An institutional repository is the collective intellectual output of an institution recorded in a form that can be preserved and exploited. This article briefly outlines the need…

Editorial

Andrew Cox