Challenges to medical libraries in big data era and their countermeasures / 中华医学图书情报杂志

ABSTRACT

After a description of the concept and meaning of big data, the application of big data in biomedical field was investigated, the changes in medical library functions were analyzed, the challenges to medical libraries were pointed in terms of their data, hardware infrastructures, software technologies, talents and service modes, and how to respond to the big data in medical libraries was proposed from the aspects of strengthening the external collabo-ration, co-developing cloud computing center, intensifying the construction of related organizations and talents, and changing the service modes.