Libraries without Limits: Proceedings of the 6th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Utrecht, 22-27 June 1998 (Hardcover)

Medical libraries are confronted with the international aspects of copyright and licence agreements, and cope with a fast-growing demand for high quality medical information in order to bring evidence-based medicine into practice. Medical librarians also serve the public, especially in those countries where consumer health information is in the forefront of health care policy. The importance of pharmaceutical information is well understood; the need for information transfer from (basic) research into (clinical) practice is not restricted to medicine, but is also important in veterinary sciences. In all fields in which members of EAHIL are working the commercial interest and political value of information is recognized. With the exponential growth of medical, health and health-care related information available or accessible on the Internet, librarians play a crucial role in information dissemination. Information services, especially in medicine, are no longer local activities, but are knitted into the global web. The Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports of The Netherlands, Mrs Els Borst-Eilers, gives many arguments why doctors need to be better informed. The papers of Lois Ann Colaianni (USA), Derek Law (UK), Charles Oppenheim (UK), Bas Savenije (NL) and many others show that the library provides a paradigm for the management of networked resources.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1999
First published:	March 1999
Editors:	Suzanne Bakker
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	332
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-5626-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Library & information services Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Epidemiology & medical statistics
LSN:	0-7923-5626-8
Barcode:	9780792356264

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