Thematic web portals for different user profiles in a virtual health science library: Bibliosalut's experience

Páez, Virgili, Font, Mònica, Pastor-Ramon, Elena, Sastre-Suárez, Sílvia and Costa-Marin, Maria Thematic web portals for different user profiles in a virtual health science library: Bibliosalut's experience., 2016 . In EAHIL 2016: Knowledge, research, innovations...eHealth, Seville (Spain), 8 June 2016. [Conference poster]

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Normally users of a virtual health library have different professional profiles (physicians, nurses, pharmacists...) and/or they are from different specialties (Primary Health Care, Internal Medicine, Oncology...). This poster shows the experience of the Virtual Health Sciences Library of the Balearic Islands (Bibliosalut) of creating thematic web portals, which aims is to improve the experience of our users to browse and query to information resources and services of the virtual library and to increase its use. Different information resources that Bibliosalut offers were selected for each thematic web portals, according to the interest and frequency of use that they may have for users of professional profiles. From the backend of the Bibliosalut Content Management System (Joomla), the necessary modules were created to present the selected information in various thematic web portals: featured resources, e-journals and e-books of each specialty that are available in the virtual library, journals of each specialty with impact factor ISI, clinical practice guidelines, useful links, etc., as well as featured information of library services, such as training courses from the Users Training Service of Bibliosalut aimed at specific groups. Nowadays, we are working to offer more thematic web portals of others specialties to Bibliosalut users and in the future we are going to evaluate their satisfaction about the usefulness of creating these thematic web portals. The result is a bilingual website (Catalan and Spanish), which consists of a main home page (www.bibliosalut.com) with a sort of thematic home pages, and customized URLs depending on the specialty or the professional profile of the users of the virtual library (e.g. Bibliosalut for Primary Health Care professionals: www.bibliosalut.com/ap). In addition, it includes several sections with information resources (data bases, e-journals, e-books, and the like) available for each specialty in Bibliosalut. We believe that the presentation of information in a virtual health library, highlighting the most useful resources and the most used by professionals who have a specific profile or a specific specialty, will help the usability of the web, it will improve the experience of our users to browse and it will increase/promote the use of information resources and services of Bibliosalut.

Item type:	Conference poster
Keywords:	Libraries, Digital; Health Services Administration; Information Services; Health Information Systems; Information Management; Resource Guides [Publication Type].
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BI. User interfaces, usability. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HQ. Web pages. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HR. Portals. I. Information treatment for information services > IG. Information presentation: hypertext, hypermedia. I. Information treatment for information services > IL. Semantic web
Depositing user:	Silvia Sastre
Date deposited:	29 Jun 2016 16:41
Last modified:	29 Jun 2016 16:41
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/29556

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