Building Online Health Resources Using Freely Available Tools

Open Issues in Intelligent Personal Health Record – An Updated Status Report for 2012

“…Several consumer-oriented health information books, such as the series of books entitled "The Comfort of Home" [103], include incomplete collections of this information. This is also the case with multiple Web sites, such as those of some government agencies, public libraries, and health-issue-specific organizations [150]. For a particular Web site, the information on it is usually tailored to the mission of its owner and hence has a limited scope of coverage.…”

Introduction to the Go Local Special Issue

“…Previously published work has discussed repurposing of Go Local knowledge in other areas of the library, 6 evaluation (e.g., gathering user opinion, 7 usage data, statistics, and search strings 8 ); geographical factors (the large state and=or the remote rural area 9 ; e.g., Go Local Texas and its 12 successful proposals in 2004-2005 10 ); and language barriers. 6,11 Most especially, this literature is rife with the real-world stories of database creation by librarians-some illustrative citations follow. Authors wrote about how to populate a database using location-specific resources, 6 website selection criteria, 11 style guidelines, 5 quality control and data cleanup, 12 and constant maintenance, discussed in every Go Local article ever published.…”

“…6,11 Most especially, this literature is rife with the real-world stories of database creation by librarians-some illustrative citations follow. Authors wrote about how to populate a database using location-specific resources, 6 website selection criteria, 11 style guidelines, 5 quality control and data cleanup, 12 and constant maintenance, discussed in every Go Local article ever published. Less frequently mentioned but interesting when it is: the philosophical problem of needing to represent organizations online that do not have websites themselves.…”

“…Less frequently mentioned but interesting when it is: the philosophical problem of needing to represent organizations online that do not have websites themselves. 6,13 Promotion and outreach, the desired culmination of all website creation in which libraries attempt to reach user communities and connect them to what they have created, are activities described in virtually every article.…”

Reaching Out by Going Local: Outreach Activities and My Health Minnesota → Go Local

“…The Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet has published many articles about MedlinePlus Go Local projects, [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] including a review of the literature related to MedlinePlus Go Local programs. 12 Articles about MedlinePlus Go Local projects have also been published elsewhere.…”