Resources - Source: International Information Support Centre
Source International Information Support Centre provides health and disability information to a wide range of users in both developing and developed countries through its fully searchable website and a physical collection based in London.
Healthlink Worldwide is a founding partner in Source: a collaboration between Healthlink Worldwide, Handicap International, and the Centre for International Child Health.
The Source website www.asksource.info has over 25,000 abstracts and resources with many links to full text online. These include books, journals, manuals, reports, posters, CD-ROMs, websites and organisations. Many materials are from developing countries and include both published and unpublished literature not readily available elsewhere in the UK.
The website includes six main topic areas:
- Disability, inclusion and development
- HIV and AIDS
- Participatory communication
- Mother and child health
- Early childhood development
- ICT and health
The Source databases provide easy searching of health and disability
information resources.
In addition Source staff, together with experts in the field, select resources
to feature in Key lists on specific themes, such as HIV and AIDS communication,
disability and emergencies, ICT and health communication, and many more.
Researching, compiling and dissmeninating Key lists is an important aspect of many of Healthlink Worldwide's projects and programmes and our Key lists are used by partners the world over. They include practical information such as manuals and training guides together with background texts and journals, and details of case-studies, newsletters, useful organisations and discussion groups.
The full A-Z set of Key lists can be accessed on the Source website.
Recent projects include the synthesis of 15 Key lists featuring over 300 disability and inclusion resources aimed at organisations working with disabled people, which are now available online, in print and on CD-ROM.
Add
your resources
Users can add their own information resources to Source and see them
appear in the bi-monthly ‘What’s
new in Source’ email bulletin. Users can subscribe to from
the site.
More on subscribing to What's new (on Source website)
Supporting resource centres in developing countries
The Support for resource centres section of the Source website has been
developed to offer support and guidance to resource centre practioners working
in primary health care and disability sectors. The section includes the
Resource Centre Manual - available online and in PDF format.
Visit the Source website at www.asksource.info
Or contact Deepthi Wickremasinghe, Information and Knowledge Manager - Source for more information: wickremasinghe.d@healthlink.org.uk