Bridging access to global health research

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Bridging Access toGlobal Health Research

Alma D. ProsperosoThe WPRIM Project, WHO WPRO

1st National Congress of the Special Libraries of the Philippines. October 21, 2011. Baguio City.

ContentsI. Introduction to WHO and WHO

WPRO

II. Development of WPRIM (a videopresentation)

III.WPRIM updates

IV.APAME, WPRIM and the Librarians


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I. Introduction to WHO andWHO WPRO

The World Health Organizationwww.who.int is a specialized agencyof the United Nations with the globalhealth mission to support allcountries and peoples in their questto achieve the highest attainablelevel of health, defined in the WHOConstitution as "a state of completephysical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence ofdisease or infirmity."


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Functions of WHOTo act as the directing & coordinating

authority on international health work.

This function permits WHOs MemberStates to identify collectively priorityhealth problems, to define health policies

and targets to cope with them, to devisestrategies, and programmes to attain thetargets.

World Health Assembly (WHA)

Executive Board Regional Committees

Regional Directors elected by MemberStates

WHO Governing BodiesWHO performs its functions through:


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WHO Member States are grouped into 6Regions1. Regional Office for Africa (Brazzaville, Congo)

2. Regional Office for the Americas(Washington, DC)

3. Regional Office for Europe(Copenhagen, Denmark)

4. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean(Cairo, Egypt)

5. Regional Office for South-East Asia(New Delhi, India)

6. Regional Office for the Western Pacific(Manila, Philippines)

193 Member States or Countries in 6regions

WHO Headquarters: Geneva Switzerland

WHO Regional Offices

WHO in the Western Pacific Region Represents

WHO in theAsia Pacific

37 countries

and areas

Over 1.6billion people

Ethnically,linguisticallyand culturallydiverse

Regional office is located in United Nations andTaft Avenue, Manila, Philippines


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PhilippinesCambodia

Mongolia

ChinaJapan

Rep. ofKorea

Hong Kong (China)Macao (China)Lao PDR

Viet Nam

BruneiDarussalam

MalaysiaSingapore

PalauPapuaNew Guinea

NorthernMariana Islands

Guam

Marshall Islands

KiribatiNauru

Tuvalu TokelauWallis &Futuna

SamoaAmericanSamoa

SolomonIslands

Fiji

Tonga

Vanuatu

New

Caledonia

Niue

CookIslands

FrenchPolynesia

Pitcairn IslandNew Zealand

Australia

Federated Statesof Micronesia

Countries and Areasof the Western Pacific Region

Role and purpose of WHO in theWestern Pacific RegionRole:

To act as a catalyst and advocate for action at alllevels, from local to global, on health issues of public

concern.

Purpose:To lead the regional response to public health

issues on all fronts - medical, technical,socio-economic, cultural, legal and political - towardsthe achievement of WHO's global health mission.


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II. Development of WPRIM(a video presentation)

What is WPRIM?The Western Pacific Region Index Medicus

(WPRIM) is a joint project of WHO and theMember States of the Region.

Goal:To create an online index of medical and

health journals published in Member States ofthe WHO Western Pacific Region, which can beaccessed on the Internet thus ensuring globalaccessibility of medical and health research donein the Region.


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Objectives

III. WPRIM Updates


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WPRIM and the Global HealthLibrary (GHL) The Global Health Library or GHL is an

initiative of WHO in cooperation with theWHO Regional Offices. It aims to extendto all the benefits of knowledge that isessential to the fullest attainment ofhealth.

WPRIM is searchable along with the otherindex medici of other WHO regions underthe GHL platform.

Access to reliable health information

GHL aims to strengthen, promote and develop worldwide networkson the collection, organization, dissemination and un iversal access toreliable health sciences information.

http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net


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cover health and biomedical subject;

be peer-reviewed, either internally or externally;

have English abstracts;

be regularly published (at least 2 issues per year). However, ifthe journal is published only once a year, it will encouraged toincrease its frequency to at least two issues per year: and

include "Instructions to Authors" reviewed and accepted by

the National Journal Selection Committees.

How journals for WPRIM are chosen?

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The Country NJSC may decide to add country-specific criteria to theminimum journal selection criteria stated above.

For example, the registration of clinical trials as a scientific and ethicalresponsibility.

The following journal selection criteria were finalized and approved byrepresentatives of the National Journal Selection Committees (NJSC) ata Consultation held in Tokyo, Japan on 17-18 May 2007

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Country Partner Organizations and InstitutionsAUSTRALIA University of Queensland Library

BRUNEI DARUSSALAM Brunei International Medical Journal (RIPAS Hospital , Ministry of Health, BruneiDarussalam)

CAMBODIA Health Messenger (Ponleu S okhapheap o r PSP)

CHI NA I nst it ut e for M edica l I nform at ion Chinese Aca dem y of M edical Scien ces (I MI CAM S)

J AP AN J ik ei Univ ersit y School of M edicine, J apanese Associat ion of M edical Journal Edit ors(JAMJE)

LAOS University of Health Sciences M inist ry of Health Cambodia, L ao M edical Journal

M AL AY SI A L ib ra ry , I nst it ut e f or Me dic al Re se ar ch (I MR ), Asso ci at io n o f M al ay si an Me dic alJournal Editors (AMMJE)

M ON GOL IA M on go lia n Ac ad em y of M ed ic al Sc ie nc es (M AM S) , M on go lia n A sso ci at io n o f M ed ic alJournal Editors (MAMJE)

PAPUA NEW GUINEA PNG Inst i tu te o f Medi ca l Resear ch

P HILIP PINES P hi li pp in e Counc il fo r Hea lt h Resear ch and Devel op ment , Dep ar tmen t of Sc ience & Technology (PCHRD-DOST), Philippine Association of Medical Journal Editors(PAMJE)

REPUBLIC OF KOREA Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE), Seoul National UniversityCollege of Medicine Library, Korean Academy of Science

S INGA PORE S in gapo re Medi ca l J ou rn al (SMJ ), S in gapo re As so ci at io n o f M ed ic al Jour na l E di to rs(SAMJE)

V IET N AM C en tr al He al th In fo rm at io n a nd Te ch no lo gy In st it ut e (C HI TI ), M in is try of He al thViet Nam

WPRIM Database As of September 2011, the WPRIM database

contains 390,093 uploaded records fromWPRIM contributing countries

The database server is hosted by a WHOCollaborating Center in China, the Institute ofMedical Information, Chinese Academy ofMedical Sciences (IMICAMS).

Accessible at www.wprim.org


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WPRIM Platform

o Developed by IMICAMS(Institute for MedicalInformation Chinese Academyof Health Sciences) which is aWHO Collaborating Center inChina

o Launched on May 7, 2010 inBeijing, China

o Powered by SinoMed

Methods of data collection


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Data uploading

Infrastructure 10 Gb

backbone, 60Mb to Internet

Server locationis withconstanttemperatureand humidity


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IV. APAME, WPRIM and theLibrarians

WPRIM and the Asia Pacific Associationof Medical Journal Editors (APAME) The Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors

(APAME) was established during one of the meetings ofWPRIM in Seoul, Republic of Korea in 2007.

APAME and WPRIM share the common goal of helping raise

the level of journal publishing and promoting equitable accessto quality health research done in the Region.

The vision of APAME is to promote health care through thedissemination of high quality knowledge and information onmedicine in the Asia Pacific Region

APAME website is accessible

www.wpro.who.int/ apame


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Objectives of APAME1. To encourage collaboration and facilitate communication

among medical journal editors in the Region and globally;

2. To improve editorial standards and promote professionalismin medical editing and publishing through education, self-assessment, and self-governance;

3. To facilitate research writing and peer-review processthrough training workshops, seminars and other activities;and

4. To foster the continuing education of medical journaleditors, reviewers, editorial staff, publishers and librariansin the Region.

APAME and the Philippine Association ofMedical Journal Editors (PAMJE)

Article IV: Mission and ObjectivesThe mission of PAMJE is to contribute to the

improvement of health in the Philippines and the AsiaPacific Region by ensuring the quality and disseminationof health-related information published in medicaljournals, utilized for the purposes of better decision-making and effective delivery of health services.

PAMJE was established on May 5, 2011 at the ExecutiveLounge of the Department of Science and Technology


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APAME and the Philippine Association ofMedical Journal Editors (PAMJE)The objectives are to:

(1) encourage collaboration and facilitate communication amongmedical and health journal editors in the Philippines and the AsiaPacific Region;(2) improve editorial standards and promote professionalism inmedical editing through education, self-assessment, and self-governance;(3) facilitate scholarly research writing and peer-reviewprocesses through training workshops, seminars and otheractivities; and(4) foster the continuing education of medical and health journaleditors, reviewers, editorial staff, publishers and librarians inthe country.

APAME and the Philippine Association ofMedical Journal Editors (PAMJE)Article V: MembershipSection 1 Individual membership

Editors, previous editors, editorial staff, editorial assistantsand reviewers of peer-reviewed medical and health-related

journals and those working in any branch of health-relatedscientific and technology communication in the Philippines, intheir capacity as Editor-In-Chief, Deputy, Associate,Assistant, Supplement and Managing Editors, other EditorialStaff, Reviewers, Librarians or Scientists and Technologists,are eligible for individual membership.

There are two categories of individual membership- regular,and associate.


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APAME and the Philippine Association ofMedical Journal Editors (PAMJE)Regular membersEditors, previous editors and editorial staff of peer-reviewed medical and health-related journals and those working in editorial capacities in any branch of health-related scientific and technology communication in the Philippines, in their capacityas Editor-In-Chief, Deputy, Associate, Assistant, Supplement and ManagingEditors and other Editorial Staff, are eligible for Regular membership. Regularmembers may vote, hold office and serve on committees.

Associate membersReviewers of peer-reviewed medical and health-related journals and those workingin any branch of health-related scientific and technology communication in the

Philippines, in other capacities as Reviewers, Librarians or Scientists andTechnologists, are eligible for Associate membership. Associate members shallenjoy all the rights and privileges of a regular member except the rights to vote andto hold office.

APAME and the Philippine Association ofMedical Journal Editors (PAMJE)

To know more about PAMJE, visit this link,

http://www.wpro.who.int/apame/events/Phil+Association+of+Med+Journal+Editors.htm


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Singapore Declaration on Equitable AccessHealth Information in the Western PacificRegion

The Singapore Declaration on equitable access to healthinformation in the Western Pacific Region was launched atthe International Forum on Academic Medical Publishingheld in conjunction with the Singapore Medical JournalGolden Jubilee Conference on November 6, 2009 inSingapore.

Excerpt from the Singapore declaration:Commit ourselves to persevere in the pursuit of the WPRIM andGHL initiatives through APAME, by encouraging peer-to-peer

relationships that will allow editors, editorial staffand l i b ra r ians to maintain balance, work out ideas and provide mutual support

The full text of the Singapore Declaration is accessible athttp://www.wpro.who.int/apame/events/Singapore_Declaration_FullText.htm

Role of Librarians in the development ofWPRIM Access and dissemination of information

Review the bibliographic data of indexedarticles before uploading in the system

Proper indexing of articles Facilitate full text document delivery service forjournals that are not open access but indexedin WPRIM


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Role of Librarians in the development ofWPRIM Knowledge sharing and capacity building

Networking among librarians in the WPRmember countries to facilitate knowledgesharing experiences and skills

Agree on standards used to index journals

Train library users on the proper use of thedatabase (search techniques, etc.)

Train staff on the management of the database(encoding, uploading, etc.)

Role of Librarians in the development ofWPRIM Advocacy

Promote the use and accessibility of librarydatabases

Provide lectures and presentations tocolleagues, librarians, researchers,administrators in countries.

Include the WPRIM database in the librarywebsite


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Website Links www.wprim.org

www.wpro.who.int/apame

www.wpro.who.int/information_sources

www.who.int

www.wpro.who.int/ghl/

www.globalhealthlibrary.net

www.mahlap.org http://mahlap.pchrd.dost.gov.ph/mahlap//unionlist_index.php

AcknowledgementASLP Officers and Board of Directors

Mr. Charles Raby, Technical Officer forTranslations, Publications and Library

Services, WHO WPROMs. Belit David, WHO WPRO

Mr. Joseph Yap

Institute of Medical Information ChineseAcademy of Medical Sciences (IMICAMS)

Philippine Association of Medical JournalEditors (PAMJE)


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Thank youSalamat

BayarlalaaTerima kasih

Xie xieArigato

Kamsahamnida

Alma D. [email protected]

The WPRIM Project, WHO WPRO

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