How to Increase Access to Research on Death, Dying, Loss and Care?

How to increase access to research on death, dying and loss?

Item Type Conference Poster

Authors Callinan, Joanne;Balanda, Kevin;Bradley, Louise

Citation Callinan J, Balanda K, Bradley L, (2013) How to increase access to research on death, dying and loss? Poster Presentation 3rd International Conference on Public Health and Palliative Care, Limerick 25th-27th April 2013.

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Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10147/316023

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Background Although there is research activity in the field of public health and palliative care, access to this research output is limited due to lack of publication or restricted by the high cost of journals.

In 2012, Milford Care Centre partnered with the Institute of Public Health in Ireland on the Necobelac project. NECOBELAC is a Network of Collaboration Between Europe and Latin American Caribbean countries.

Aim: The aim is to promote scientific writing and greater dissemination of research output utilizing open access (OA) models in the area of public health.

Open Access Publications & Institutional Repositories Methodology Results Scientific Writing

• Training day held in Dublin Milford Care Centre (MCC) has in May 2012 and delivered a Research Collection on Lenus TRAIN THE by Necobelac partners Milford Care (Irish Health Archive) TRAINER Centre carried • Webinar series out  Benefits of Publishing Information, Research in Institutional Education & • Open Access Research Repositories or in Open Access Training on the Publications LOCAL following • Scientific writing TRAINING MCC receives RSS feeds to relevant open access content from the IPH HealthWell website

OpenDOAR is a Directory of Open Access Repositories. It enables anyone to search the contents of the archives listed and access research Full texts are available for most results.

LENUS is The Irish health repository dedicated to making Irish health research from the HSE widely and freely available for the benefit of all.

Conclusion

RESULTS Searched Two Repositories with Submitting research to Open the following Keywords: Lenus retrieved 4,880 hits Access publications or to the institutional repositories (e.g. death OR dying OR bereaved OR bereavement OpenDoar retrieved LENUS), increases access to full- OR palliative OR hospice OR grief OR grieving 4,640,000 hits text academic research on death, dying, loss and care.

Acknowledgements: The authors wish to thank NECOBELAC partners especially Paola de Castro, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Rome, Italy and Bill Hubbard, Laurian Williamson & Nancy Pontika, Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham, U.K.