Managing a national health repository - Lenus Aoife Lawton & Padraig Manning Health Service Executive Ireland One Health: information in an interdependent world. Boston. Medical Library Association Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Outline Context Rationale Methods Results & Lessons Learned
Context Ireland Population: 4.5 million Irish Health Service employs circa 100, health agencies Context
Massive organisational changes in Irish health service Old Health Board System ( )HSE Regional Divisions
Pavee Point
Rationale for an Irish health repository Access Quality & Value For Money Preservation Informing health research policy
Methods BUILDING A NATIONAL RESPOSITORY 12 FOCUS GROUP 3 SURVEYS PILOT 4 SELECTION OF OPTIMAL SYSTEM
Content workflow for participating Lenus Working Group Members & individual authors
Interoperability & International reach
Results Ranked 4 th in Ireland, 353 out of 1654 (Source: ranking web of repositories) Hosting agreements with Irish publishers Irish health service OA statement (2013) Steady growth in no. of organisations using Lenus as “their” repository
Project Team (February 2009) Working Group (June 2011) National OA Steering Group (October 2012) Advisory Group (May 2013) Governance / Stakeholders
Stats Source: Google Analytics 03/ /22/2013 Lenus - monthly activity statistics
Lenus - Hospital Research collection activity (last 6 months)
Future Objectives Annual call for research for Lenus Growth of community research content in Lenus Progress dialogue with publishers Increase brand awareness
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