Introduction
Information resources for librarians of Health Sciences can be found in multiple databases, and this resources in documents which are not indexed in any database. All professionals, especially those belonging to the Health Sciences field, need to be provided with all published relevant information by means of the new information technologies in order to keep up with the developments in their profession.
The aim of this work is to create a bibliographic database of library and information science for published literature in Health Sciences, which will be published on the Internet in order to make both searching and retrieval of all types of documents easier. This will allow medical librarians to develop their professional, educational, and research activities more easily.
Methods
To create a database of information, consisting of records that have a complete bibliographic control. The controls are: type of document, author/s, title, source data, standardization code and descriptors.
National and international sources:
2.1. OPAC (Online Point Access Catalogue):
BOOKS IN PRINT. Bowker. USA
ISBN SPANISH AGENCY. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Spain
REBIUN. Universitary Libraries Network. Spain
2.2. Bibliographic databases:
CINAHL. Cynahl Information Systems. USA
CUIDEN. Fundación Index. Spain
ISOC - LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION SCIENCE. Centro de Información y Documentación Científica (CINDOC). Spain
LISA (Library and Information Science Abstract). Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. USA
MEDLINE. National Library of Medicine. USA
3.3. Factual databases
JAMIA (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Associations). Hanley & Belfus, Inc. USA
JMLA (Journal of the Medical Library Association). Medical Library Association. USA
All sources are limited to the dates 2001 to 2004. Only books and articles published either Spanish or English in print support have been selected.
To search and retrieve all documents consisting of: librarianship, auxiliary sciences and techniques, metric studies of information, information sources, languages and linguistics, information chain, information professionals and users, information society, information and communication technologies, information units. All this relates to the Health Sciences.
The documents are indexed by using descriptors, both in Spanish and English from the following thesauri: CSIC Librarianship and Information Science published by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and DeCS (Descriptores de Ciencias de la Salud) published by BIREME.
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