Apologies for Cross Posting
Dear Colleagues,
BIOME, the health and life science hub of the Resource Discovery Network, is looking for additional institutional and individual partners/content providers to help us maintain and develop the OMNI and NMAP gateways (http://omni.ac.uk & http://nmap.ac.uk).
We are keen to ensure that our content and services remain current and relevant to the needs of our target audience - UK students, academics, researchers and practitioners - and that our service develops in partnership with other information services in healthcare. To enable this we have established partnerships with a range of educational and professional bodies in the health and life sciences.
We are now seeking to identify additional UK information services in health, medicine and dentistry, or individuals with recent or ongoing experience in this area, to help us identify, create and review content for our OMNI and NMAP gateways until July 31st 2004 in the first instance.
Our partnership model provides us with valuable links to our user communities, ensuring that our content is created by specialists/information professionals working with or in these communities and that it continues to reflect their needs. Our partners and individual content providers benefit by the opportunity to develop their own or their employees' skills in a new area of professional practice, contributions to salary costs and in the ongoing development of a national service directly relevant to the needs of their users.
Our basic funding model pays contributors/institutions on a fees basis, paid per record, and all content providers will receive full training in the use of the BIOME database editors' interface and the BIOME evaluation and cataloguing guidelines.
OMNI/NMAP content providers must hold a first degree or postgraduate qualification in librarianship/information management or healthcare and have recent or ongoing experience of working within healthcare information environment or discovering health information via the Internet. Content providers must also have the ability to write fluent and concise English.
If you or your organisation would be interested in finding out more about becoming a BIOME institutional or individual partner/external content provider please feel free to get in touch (contact details below).
Regards,
Donald M Mackay
Service Manager
BIOME
Greenfield Medical Library
University of Nottingham
Queen's Medical Centre
Nottingham
NG7 2UH
0115 8493251
http://biome.ac.uk
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About OMNI & NMAP
OMNI (Organising Medical Networked Information) and NMAP are gateways to evaluated, quality Internet resources in health and medicine, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners in the health and medical sciences. OMNI and NMAP are created by a core team of information specialists and subject experts based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library, in partnership with key organisations throughout the UK and further afield.
OMNI and NMAP are two of the gateways within the BIOME service (http://biome.ac.uk/). BIOME is part of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) http://www.rdn.ac.uk/, and is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
The BIOME Service
BIOME (http://biome.ac.uk) is a free Internet service covering the health and life sciences. The service comprises of six sections or 'gateways' each relating to a field of the life sciences:
· BioResearch - covering biological and biomedical research, including genetics, microbiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. Aimed at researchers, academics and scientists involved in biological research.
· OMNI - covering medicine, biomedicine, allied health, health management and related topics. Aimed at clinicians; the general public and patients; the drug and pharmaceutical industry; students, researchers and academics.
· NMAP - covering resources relating to nursing, midwifery and the allied health professions. Aimed at clinicians; the general public and patients; the drug and pharmaceutical industry; students, researchers and academics.
· Natural Selection - covering the natural world, including plant and animal life, fossils, ecology and the environment. Aimed at anyone with a purposeful interest in the natural world: amateur enthusiasts; school children and students at all levels; researchers in botany, zoology, palaeontology, systematics and taxonomy.
· VetGate - covering all subjects related to animal health. Aimed at veterinary surgeons, nurses and other veterinary professionals; animal health researchers, lecturers and students; producers and suppliers of veterinary goods, services and information.
· AgriFor - covering agriculture, forestry and the food sciences. Aimed at farmers and others who grow crops or raise animals for food; the forestry community and industry; people involved in food production or the use of animals for food; academics, researchers and students; producers and suppliers of agricultural goods, services and information.
At the core of each of the gateways is a collection of descriptions of high quality Internet resources. Each resource, when identified as being of relevance to the audience of BIOME, and of sufficient quality to be included in the collection, is described in a precise manner, using metadata standards evolved by OMNI and several sister services (such as SOSIG and EEVL).
By a process of selection, evaluation and description, the collection is constantly updated and added to. The BIOME resource catalogue currently contains over 24,000 records, each describing an individual Internet resource, including documents, databases, multimedia teaching materials, mailing lists, newsgroups, etc.
The BIOME Project was established in August 1999 following a successful bid to the Joint Information Systems Committee to expand the subject coverage of the existing OMNI gateway to all areas of the life sciences. The service is part of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) - a network of subject based Internet resource catalogues, freely accessible for use in learning, teaching and research or for professional development (http://www.rdn.ac.uk/)
BIOME is produced by a consortium of partners led by the University of Nottingham. Other partners include the Natural History Museum, the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Midwives, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, the Royal Veterinary College and the Universities of Reading, Oxford and the West of England.
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