RÉSUMÉ
In the present age of World Wide Web, we are linked globally. As we are moving towards the modern era, the knowledge and information is growing in each and every field by the help of electronic sources. In the present scenario, electronics resources are playing an important role and providing unusual/surprising information which can be stored in an electronic device for further usage. Nowadays, online books, online journals and other electronic databases are expanding swiftly, almost in all fields of research and development. These electronic resources deliver functional bunch of information via multimedia tools in short time and space. The aim to write this paper is to educate about the e-resources, available in the world wide in medical and healthcare sector with emphasis over the categories of eresources, its density, advantages, disadvantages, medical open source (free) subscription base and its components.
RÉSUMÉ
Con la aparición de las prácticas basadas en la evidencia, se hace cada día más necesario permanecer actualizado con los avances que tiene nuestra profesión en sus diversas áreas. Lo anterior supone poder acceder a las fuentes primarias de esta información, como son los journals, los que muchas veces al ser de pago implican una gran barrera para su acceso, afortunadamente gracias una iniciativa de CONICYT y CINCEL las universidades chilenas cuentan con acceso a la mayoría de los principales journals en todas las áreas del conocimientos a través de la Biblioteca Electrónica de Información Científica (BEIC-Chile). El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar una forma sencilla, gratuita y basada en la web para el manejo de las suscripciones que podemos tener a los journals de nuestro interés, exponiendo el uso de la plataforma Google Reader y las extensiones Google Reader Watcher y FoxyProxy del navegador Mozilla Firefox, tanto para su uso específico en BEIC-Chile, como así otras posibles aplicaciones de estos recursos al interior de las instalaciones universitarias y fuera de ellas. Es necesario conocer y aplicar las diversas herramientas tecnológicas con las que contamos en la actualidad, así como también aprovechar plataformas como BEIC-Chile, las que nos permiten entregar prestaciones de mejor calidad a nuestros pacientes.
With the advent of evidence-based practices, it becomes increasingly necessary being updated with the progress that has our profession in its various areas. This means access to primary sources of this information, such as journals, which often suposse a big barrier to access due to payment policies, fortunately through an initiative of CONICYT and CINCEL, the chilean universities have access to most important journals in all areas of knowledge through the ElectronicLibrary of Scientific Information (BEIC-Chile). The aim of this paper is to show a simple, free, web-based management for subscriptions to the journals we have in our interest, exposing the case of the platform Google Reader and the Mozilla Firefox extensions: Google Reader Watcher and FoxyProxy, for their specific use in BEIC-Chile, as well as other possible applications of these resources within the university facilities and outside them. It is necessary to know and implement the several technological tools that we have now, as well as platforms like BEIC-Chile, which allow us to deliver better quality services to our patients.