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. 2015 Feb;9(1):82-5.
doi: 10.1017/dmp.2014.108. Epub 2014 Oct 17.

Ebola outbreak response: the role of information resources and the National Library of Medicine

Cynthia B Love  1 , Stacey J Arnesen  1 , Steven J Phillips  2
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Ebola outbreak response: the role of information resources and the National Library of Medicine

Cynthia B Love et al. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2015 Feb.

Abstract

The US National Library of Medicine (NLM) offers Internet-based, no-cost resources useful for responding to the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak. Resources for health professionals, planners, responders, and researchers include PubMed, Disaster Lit, the Web page "Ebola Outbreak 2014: Information Resources," and the Virus Variation database of sequences for Ebolavirus. In cooperation with participating publishers, NLM offers free access to full-text articles from over 650 biomedical journals and 4000 online reference books through the Emergency Access Initiative. At the start of a prolonged disaster event or disease outbreak, the documents and information of most immediate use may not be in the peer-reviewed biomedical journal literature. To maintain current awareness may require using any of the following: news outlets; social media; preliminary online data, maps, and situation reports; and documents published by nongovernmental organizations, international associations, and government agencies. Similar to the pattern of interest shown in the news and social media, use of NLM Ebola-related resources is also increasing since the start of the outbreak was first reported in March 2014.

Keywords: Internet.

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