NMAP

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NMAP developing an Internet gateway for
nursing, midwifery and allied health Health
Libraries Group Conference, 15th July, 2002 Lisa
Gray BIOME Team Manager
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NMAP

• NMAP
• History
• Partners collaborators
• What it is how it works
• Successes and evaluation
• Other initiatives
• Partnerships lessons learnt
• A look to the future

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Introduction

• History
• 1994 OMNI was set up as a gateway to quality
  health information, funded by the UK HE and FE
  funding councils. OMNI is aimed primarily at
  students, lecturers and researchers in UK HE and
  FE
• 1999 OMNI expanded its subject content to
  cover additional topics including animal health,
  agriculture and biology. This wider service is
  called BIOME.
• BIOME is part of a national service covering all
  subject areas, called the Resource Discovery
  Network (RDN)

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Introduction

• History
• December 1999
• the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
  put out a call for proposals
• A bid was submitted to expand the subject scope
  of OMNI to increase the provision of quality
  Internet resources in nursing, midwifery and
  allied health.

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Introduction

• History
• The bid was successful, with funding provided
  over two years from August 2000 to August 2002
• April 2001
• NMAP was launched, with 500 descriptions of
  evaluated Internet resources

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Partners

• Partners
• University of Nottingham
• University of Sheffield
• The Royal College of Nursing
• Aims
• To build on the OMNI service by offering a
  nursing, midwifery and allied health focus

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Partners

• Partners
• University of Nottingham
• Lead partner
• Provided the infrastructure and co-ordination
• Experience of 8 years provision of a successful
  national subject gateway
• NMAP integrated with OMNI and BIOME
• University of Sheffield
• Large school of Nursing and Midwifery, 2500
  undergraduate nursing students
• Project Manager - Rod Ward, Lecturer in Acute
  Critical Care
• Nursing and Healthcare Resources site set up in
  1993, now redirecting to NMAP

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Partners

• Partners
• The Royal College of Nursing
• Focus groups with members conducted during
  development of the Information Strategy
• Feedback suggested they wanted access to quality,
  relevant information speedily available via the
  Web
• One of the Information Strategys key objectives
  is
• Access to quality information on the Web
• NMAP fitted in with this aim, and so the RCN
  became partners
• Database of Internet resources used to develop
  NMAP
• Publicised NMAP to their members via the RCN
  publications, an award winning video their Web
  site

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NMAP and the NeLH

• In collaboration with
• College of Occupational Therapists
• Community Practitioners and Health Visitors
  Association
• Royal College of Midwives
• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Librarians and subject experts from these
  professional associations evaluate and describe
  resources for NMAP of use to their profession

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NMAP and the NeLH

• NeLH
• The UK NHS National electronic Library for Health
• The NeLH arose out of the Governments commitment
  to providing information to Clinicians
• Outlined in Information for Health, 1998
• Its aim is to provide high quality, accredited
  clinical information to clinicians when they need
  it
• Provide access to a range of sources of
  information including the Cochrane Library, and
  Clinical Evidence

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NMAP and the NeLH

• NeLH NMAP
• Members of the NeLH colloquium set up a meeting
  to discuss nursing and allied health needs to
  information in the NeLH
• A series of professional portals were set up
  for each profession, linking to a range of
  information sources
• NMAP was identified as a quality information
  resource
• NMAP and the NeLH decided to work together to
  minimise duplication of effort

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NMAP and the NeLH

• NMAP and the NeLH
• NMAP is searchable within the NeLH professional
  portal pages
• A full time member of staff is employed to work
  on NMAP, part funded by the NeLH to contribute
  resources of interest to academics, students and
  researchers, as well as NHS staff.
• Liaison with professional bodies
• Joint exhibition stands at conferences, including
  The Nursing Show, and annual conferences of the
  Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Royal
  College of Midwives

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The result

• NMAP http//nmap.ac.uk/
• Free, subject based access
• NMAP covers nursing, midwifery, health visiting,
  physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry,
  speech therapy.
• Tailored to the UK NHS, HE FE communities
• Resources that are of interest to academics,
  researchers and students in the UK the NHS
• Quality control
• Selected using clear, published guidelines
• http//biome.ac.uk/guidelines/eval/
• All resources link checked weekly reviewed
  every 9 months

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NMAP
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Simple advanced searching

• Simple searching
• Use quotes for phrase searching British Medical
  Journal
• Dont need to use AND automatic
• Advanced searching
• Limit your search by resource type
• E.g. mailing list, learning material, practice
  guideline, patient information
• Display a list of titles only
• Truncation

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Browsing

• Browse in one of two ways
• By broad headings
• NLM headings
• By more detailed headings
• MeSH keywords
• RCN keywords

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Evaluation

• Evaluation
• Evaluation performed on NMAP by the Department of
  Information Science, Loughborough University
• 56 used NMAP to support learning
• 84 found the resources excellent or good in
  terms of relevance
• 88 found the information they wanted easily
• 42 of respondents were from the NHS 30 were
  from UK HE 4 from UK FE

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Successes

• Key successes
• 84 of questionnaire respondents found the
  resources excellent or good in terms of relevance
• NMAP served over one million pages in the first
  9 months
• In May 2002, NMAP served 135,590 pages
• 741 external sites linking to NMAP in June 2002

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Successes
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Other initiatives

• Free online tutorials
• Internet for Nursing, Midwifery and Health
  Visiting Internet for Allied Health
• Free online tutorials teaching Internet
  information skills
• Part of the highly successful RDN Virtual
  Training Suite

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Partnerships lessons learnt

• Partnerships problems encountered
• Difficulties of working with different funding
  cycles
• NHS and academic differences
• Intellectual Property Rights issues
• Who owns the IPR of records when they come from
  disparate sources?
• Virtual teams
• Difficulties in training and managing a team
  contributing resources into NMAP based at
  locations throughout the UK

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Partnerships lessons learnt

• Partnerships positives
• Expertise
• Knowledge and expertise of a wide range of bodies
  
• Publicity channels
• The service is more widely publicised throughout
  the communities than if no collaboration had
  occurred
• Relationships
• Many new relationships forged amongst previously
  separate organisations

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Partnerships lessons learnt

• Partnerships positives
• And most importantly
• Seamless, cross-sectoral access to high quality
  Internet resources in for nurses, midwives and
  allied health professionals in training and
  practice has been achieved

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A look to the future

• Future
• Funding
• Funding finishes this August
• NMAP member of staff funded till November
• JISC will meet to discuss potential further
  funding in the Autumn
• Possible continuation of part funding from the
  NeLH to continue for another year
• Collaboration
• We are hoping to continue building the
  relationships that have developed between
  academia, professional bodies, and the NHS

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A look to the future

• Future
• Bids
• A bid has gone in to the FDTL4 call for proposals
  
• NMAP, a service which aims to integrate NMAP
  records into Virtual Learning Environments
  (VLEs).
• Due to hear by 20th July