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The development of NMAP - The UK's gateway to high quality Internet resources
in nursing, midwifery and allied health.
NET2002 Conference
Rod Ward
Rod.Ward@sheffield.ac.uk
http://nmap.ac.uk
Topics
• Why quality gateways to Internet Resources
• What NMAP is
• NMAP history funding & partners
• NMAP Usage & Evaluation
Issues of quality on the Internet
• Sheer volume of information• Ephemeral nature of much information• Ease of self-publishing
• the personal home page phenomenon
• Lack of peer review or editorial and refereeing processes
• Possible serious consequences of inaccurate health information
Limitations of search tools
• Indiscriminate, unwieldy retrieval from search engines
• Output mostly lacks context
• Word spamming & relevancy ranking
• Advanced search features can be complex
Difficulties in evaluating Internet resources
• They cannot be browsed in the same way as print
• They tend not to have a set of common features • (such as statement of responsibility,
introduction, preface, table of contents, index)
• There may be time and cost implications
NMAPWhat is it?• NMAP provides access to evaluated Internet
information for nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, health visitors, dieticians, occupational therapists & other allied health professionals
• Aimed primarily at the UK HE, FE communities & practitioners
http://nmap.ac.uk/
JISC & the RDN
JISC Committee for Electronic Information
1998 – call for proposals resulted in the creation of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN)
RDN
RDN - http://www.rdn.ac.uk/– Aims to become a resource discovery service across a wide range
of subject areas
Co-ordinated by the Network Centre, the RDNC– BIOME – life and health sciences
– SOSIG – social sciences
– EMC – engineering, maths, computing
– Humbul - humanities
– PSIgate – physical sciences
BIOME
BIOME• a “parent” service, providing access to, and integration of, five
gateways to quality Internet resources. Focused on HE, FE and wider audiences
Gateways• OMNI – health and medicine & NMAP • VetGate – animal health
• AgriFor- agriculture, food and forestry
• Natural Selection – natural world
• BioResearch – biological/biomedical sciences
History & funding
December 1999– JISC call for proposals (05/99)
NMAP bid submitted by:– University of Nottingham– University of Sheffield– Royal College of Nursing
NMAP
• Who is it provided by?– Partnership between the University of Nottingham,
University of Sheffield and Royal College of Nursing– In collaboration with:– Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, – College of Occupational Therapists, – Community Practitioners and Health Visitors
Association, – Royal College of Midwives & – NHS National electronic Library for Health
Simple– Free text search, phrases, automatic “AND”,
punctuation accepted– N.B. Also searches OMNI (6,500 records)
Advanced– Options to:
– limit your search by resource type e.g. mailing list, teaching materials, practice guideline
– Display a list of titles only– Truncation
Searching
Browsing NMAP
• Alphabetically (by NLM headings)
• Keyword - MeSH headings or RCN headings
NMAP searching in the NeLH
• NeLH VBLs & NMAP developed together.• avoid duplication – URLs in NMAP not separate
database• annual licence • NeLH Professional portals search NMAP using
RDN-Include – see http://www.rdn.ac.uk/rdn-i/• Integration gives users a “one stop shop”
Tutorials
Part of the RDN's Virtual Training Suite (VTS).
• Internet for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors.
• URL http://nmap.ac.uk/vts/nurse/
Internet for Allied Health
• URL http://nmap.ac.uk/vts/allied/
NMAP Usage & Evaluation
• Since launch (April 2001) we have been keeping statistics about the service.
• During November & December we ran an online questionnaire completed by 671 users
• Further work on search, browse & HCI is continuing
Number of Records in NMAP database
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Excluding nmap domain
User Evaluation - User responses to question
Using NMAP, can you find the information you want easily
Easy to navigate No. of responses Percentage
YES 564 87.9
NO 78 12.1
Nil response 29 4.3
User Evaluation - User responses to
question about the relevance of NMAP resources
Relevance of resources No of responses Percentages
Excellent 163 24.3
Good 402 59.9
Average 51 7.6
Poor 11 1.6
Unsatisfactory 5 0.7
Nil Response 39 5.8
User Evaluation - User responses to
question about work category
Work Category No. of Respondents
Nurse 340
Student 192
Lecturer 170
Researcher 94
Librarian 53
Midwife 27
Other 26
Health Visitor 24
Physiotherapist 16
Occupational Therapist 5
Operating Technician 2
Radiographer 1
Speech Therapist 1
User Evaluation - User responses to
question What type of organisation are you from?
Organisation No. of responses Percentages
Not affiliated to an organisation 21 3.1
UK NHS 280 41.7
UK Further Education 29 4.3
UK Higher Education 199 29.7
UK Other 27 4.0
Non UK Organisation 70 10.4
Nil response 45 6.7
The future
• Project extended to Jan 03• Continuing to increase the number of records (and
maintain by link checking & review).• Awaiting news of transfer to JISC “Ongoing
Service” (and attached funding)• Feedback welcome on the website – particularly
comments about the usefulness of NMAP to nurse education now and in the future.
The development of NMAP - The UK's gateway to high quality Internet resources
in nursing, midwifery and allied health.
NET2002 Conference
Rod Ward
Rod.Ward@sheffield.ac.uk
http://nmap.ac.uk
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