Assessing the health information needs of the emergency preparedness and management community

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2008

Abstract

Thirty four professionals who are part of a community of practice in the field of health related emergency response management provided information about the sources of information that they currently use the most, as well as their unmet information needs, and the kinds of information systems tools they would like to have. This professional community relies heavily on the Web, but they report severe information overload, in terms of not easily being able to find the kinds of information they want, amid the deluge of information that is there. In particular, they would find a system that uses social tagging and social recommender system features to be very useful for accessing relevant documents in the "gray literature". We suggest that services such as these will be increasingly important for professional communities in general. © 2008 IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.

Identifier

58149513270 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Information Services and Use

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.3233/ISU-2008-0588

ISSN

01675265

First Page

269

Last Page

280

Issue

3-4

Volume

28

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