The SBBL ("Sistema Bibliotecario Biomedico Lombardo") is one of the more advanced systems at national and European level for the sharing and distribution of information, the training of new people competent in the biomedical field and of hospital workers.
The three "pillars" of the SBBL Portal are
1. Search
2. Information Localization
3. Information Distribution (paper and/or electronic)
The most important objectives reached by SBBL are:
- The creation of a Collective Catalogue of Biomedical Periodicals (including about 6000 journals)
- SBBL has a contract with the most important international data banks: Medline, Embase, Cinhal
- SBBL has a contract with about 2000 electronic journals with access to complete articles (Elsevier, Blackwell, Lippincott W&W)
- The creation of the Metacrawler SBBL/CILEA meta-engine to connect the collective catalogue to the data banks and electronic articles so that the resources can be shared comprehensively
Via the portal and the Internet, all SBBL users such as doctors, researchers and health workers are able to pursue their specific interests from their own desks.
They can utilize interactive research on updated information, request and acquire texts.
The SBBL Portal is based on the SBBL/CILEA Metacrawler system, a search meta-engine that:
- provides personalized access to SBBL services and all the Medline and PreMedline data banks accessible through the PubMed service (NLM);
- provides personalized access to the Cinah data acquired and hosted on CILEA servers;
- handles and customises surfing for search results and saves of the enquiry strategies executed;
- provides an Alert Service that allows the user to be alerted by e-mail about important publications in his areas of interest;
- automatically builds links to full-text documents of some of the more important publishers and services (like CrossRef);
- integrates the Collective Catalogue of Periodicals of SBBL in order to facilitate the Document Delivery service to Italian researchers;
- promotes the sharing of resources both in acquisition and distribution;
- promotes the procurement of new technologies and training for operators and users.
SBBL Portal combines all the above, allowing the system to be expanded so as to include every accredited source of biomedical information. This, in turn, will enable the system to produce ever more significant results contributing to effective health management in Lombardy.
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