Citation
Cox, A. (2003), "Editorial", VINE, Vol. 33 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/vine.2003.28733daa.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
Editorial
This issue is the second on health related issues.
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Alison Turner, Nick Rosen and Fran Wilkie describe DLnet, an informal network organised by the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) to promote electronic library resources to the large potential audience of health practitioners in the NHS.
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Sarah Cull describes an ejournals service for nurses run by the Royal College of Nursing.
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Lesley Glassington and Christine Urquhart present an evaluation of a clinical librarianship role.
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Olwen Beaven and Jane McHugh describe the role of information professionals in producing systematic reviews for Clinical Evidence, an evidence-based healthcare publication.
Off theme article
This issue also contains an off theme article in which Gary Brewerton and Jon Knight discuss an open source reading list system, LORLS.
Next year's issues
2004 issues will include:
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Libraries and digital preservation, including perspectives from OCLC, the British Library and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, among others.
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A knowledge management issue, including some papers from the series of talks being organised by Mark Field of CILIP at KMEurope in November 2003.
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Papers on lessons learned from JISC's 5/99 projects.
Suggestions for off theme papers are always of interest, themes might be:
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open source software development in the information field;
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portals, including implementation experience of commercial systems;
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contributions to the Over the Horizon series, about technologies/standards that are soon to be in vogue;
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comments on Internet trends;
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integration of learning technologies and information resources; and
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experience with different ICTs as communication media.
Andrew Cox