Website establishment and its service in domestic medical information research institutions / 中华医学图书情报杂志

Objective To analyze the Website establishment and its service in domestic medical information re-search institutions. Methods The Website establishment and its service in domestic medical information institutions were investigated at the national, provincial and municipal levels respectively. Results The Website establishment in domestic medical information institutions showed its diversified characteristics, including both traditional and e-merging service contents. The Website service form was rather simplistic with one-way information distribution as its main service. The Chinese resources were sufficiently developed, but their integration was poor. Platforms for Characteristic data and resources or databases were introduced by some medical information research institutions. Conclusion Medical information research institutions should pay their attention to the information needs of users, improve their service awareness, expand their service scope and depth, provide decision supporting information service, integrate medical information resources that can be shared, improve information supporting level and utilization ratio of medical information resources.

Development of medical information research institutions in China and their cooperation / 中华医学图书情报杂志

The investigation on the development of medical information research institutions in China and their co-operation showedthat virtual integration model with an additional inscription board and cooperation between local medical academic libraries were the orientation of medical information research institutions in China.Literature novelty assessment, journal edition, network system, website construction, literature and information service, information research service, literature retrieval teaching, user training, health policy management and research, health information statistics were the major tasks of medical information research institutions at present.The recently emerged electronic administrative departments provided a novel visual angle for the cooperation between government organizations , medical information research institutions, and medical libraries.