Kevin Balanda's presentation on the All Ireland Public Health Repository

1. #oaireland
Open Access Resources
for Public Health

2. Widening access to Irish and
European Open Access Research
Kevin Balanda, Adam McCune & Louise Bradley
All Ireland
Public
Health
Repository

3. Institute of Public Health in Ireland
All-Ireland body:
• North-South cooperation
• Inequalities in health
• Social determinants of health
Three work strands:
• Research & information
• Policy support
• Capacity building
www.publichealth.ie

4. www.thehealthwell.info
The Health Well

5. Partners

6. The Health Well’s catalogues
Interventions
Policy
Data
Evidence
News
Organisations

7. Managing & sharing documents
Free user (“My Well”) accounts
• user profile
• save searches
• create Reading Lists
• create Citation Lists
Social media tools
OA Research Alerts
Training – workshops/seminars

8. • Physical Activity and Nutrition
Intervention (PANI) Tool
• Community Profiles Tool
• Public Health Information System (PHIS)
• Chronic Conditions Prevalence Tool
Online exploratory tools

9. Rationale for the repository
Threats to public health agencies and their documents
Need to secure public health documents relating to:
• Cross-sectoral public health agenda
• Health inequalities
• Social determinants of health
This focus complements health and social services repositories
All-Ireland

10. Aims
To establish a thematic repository within The Health Well website
To base content on The Health Well’s catalogues with links to its
larger metadata cache
To incorporate an action orientation into the repository:
• Discovery & document management tools
• Online exploratory tools
To contribute to the development of the OA movement on the island

11. All Ireland Public Health Repository
Provides access to other OA resources
Extends online reach of key Irish documents
Provides online tools to manage,
understand and use documents
Archives key Irish documents
Where possible, redirects users to original
document rather than the archived version
repository.thehealthwell.info

12. Other Irish OA resources
www.rian.ie

13. Other European OA resources
www.OpenAIRE.eu

14. Searching the repository

15. Access to online exploratory tools

16. How we developed the repository
With written consent from partners, DOIs registered with mEdra
The repository was:
• Registered with Open Archives Initiative
• Listed with OpenDOAR – The Directory of Open Access
Repositories
• Joined OpenAIRE
• Joined RIAN
Operational in January 2015
Currently developing protocols for identifying and managing
content (duplications)

17. Content identification
Potential content is identified by the Knowledge Translation Officer
using a number of methods:
• Standardised key word searches of larger metadata cache
• Manual searches of the cache
• Manual searches of partner websites
• Browsing other key public health websites
• Other ad-hoc methods
Decision to either include/exclude content based on agreed
criteria

18. Content management
When suitable content is identified, it is passed on to
the Resource Manager.
• DOI is registered
• Resource is metadata tagged
• Metadata is added to the larger cache and relevant
catalogue

19. Any comments or
questions?
Thank you
kevin.balanda@publichealth.ie