Creating the First MedlinePlus “Go Local” Service
Lessons and Recommendations from the Evaluation of NC Health Info
Authors:
Christie Silbajoris a;
Diana McDuffee b;
Cynthia Olney c
| Affiliations: | a Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
| b Health Sciences Library, AHEC Information and Library System, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA | |
| c C.O. Evaluation Consulting LLC, Greensboro, NC, USA |
DOI:
10.1300/J115v26n02_07
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4 issues per year
Subjects:
Librarianship;
Research Librarianship;
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Abstract
NC Health Info is an online collection of North Carolina-based health services Web sites that seamlessly links local health resources to topical health information on MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine's consumer health information Web site. NC Health Info was the first project to connect local resources with MedlinePlus in the “Go Local” initiative. As such, NC Health Info serves as a model for other states to follow in connecting their own local information with Medline-Plus. This paper describes the processes used and lessons learned during a year-long evaluation of NC Health Info. Evaluation results may be of interest and applicable to any existing or planned “Go Local” project.
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| Keywords: NC Health Info; Go Local; MedlinePlus; consumer health information; evaluation; health services; Internet; Web sites |
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