Buchanan Holly Shipp, Waitzkin Howard, Eldredge Jonathan, Davidson Russ, Iriart Celia, Teal Janis
The University of New Mexico, MSC09 5100, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2003 Oct;91(4):418-25.
This preliminary report describes the development and implementation of a project to improve access to literature in Latin American social medicine (LASM).
The University of New Mexico project team collaborated with participants from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador to identify approximately 400 articles and books in Latin American social medicine. Structured abstracts were prepared, translated into English, Spanish, and Portuguese, assigned Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), and loaded into a Web-based database for public searching. The project has initiated Web-based publication for two LASM journals. Evaluation included measures of use and content.
The LASM Website (http://hsc.unm.edu/lasm) and database create access to formerly little-known literature that addresses problems relevant to current medicine and public health. This Website offers a unique resource for researchers, practitioners, and teachers who seek to understand the links between socioeconomic conditions and health. The project provides a model for collaboration between librarians and health care providers. Challenges included procurement of primary material; preparation of concise abstracts; working with trilingual translations of abstracts, metadata, and indexing; and the work processes of the multidisciplinary team.
The literature of Latin American social medicine has become more readily available to researchers worldwide. The LASM project serves as a collaborative model for the creation of sustainable solutions for disseminating information that is difficult to access through traditional methods.
本初步报告描述了一个旨在改善获取拉丁美洲社会医学（LASM）文献途径的项目的开发与实施情况。
新墨西哥大学项目团队与来自阿根廷、巴西、智利和厄瓜多尔的参与者合作，筛选出约400篇拉丁美洲社会医学领域的文章和书籍。编写结构化摘要，将其翻译成英语、西班牙语和葡萄牙语，赋予医学主题词（MeSH），并加载到基于网络的数据库中供公众检索。该项目已启动两家LASM期刊的网络出版。评估包括使用情况和内容方面的指标。
拉丁美洲社会医学文献已更便于全球研究人员获取。LASM项目作为一种合作模式，为创建可持续的解决方案以传播通过传统方法难以获取的信息提供了范例。
