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January 2006

Newsletter VHL 028 05/January/2006

ISSN 1809-6859

Director of BIREME shares the results of 2005 and the prospects for 2006

Abel Packer shared the results achieved in 2005 and the main lines of action for 2006 with BIREME/PAHO/WHO collaborators. The successful organization of the events ICML9/CRICS7/BVS4, and the advances of the VHL Network and its complementing networks, SciELO and ScienTI, were the highlights of the meetings held by the end of 2005. Check the events and his end-of-the-year message
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SciELO Brazil collection has 11 new titles

The 10th Meeting of the Advisory Committee of SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) Brazil, was held at BIREME/PAHO/WHO, on November 4, 2005, and approved 11 new Brazilian scientific journals that will soon be available at the site of SciELO Brazil. The Committee analyzed the applications for inclusion of 36 titles in four areas: Agrarian, Biological, Exact and Human Sciences
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Hemispheric Conference contributes to developing the Avian Influenza Portal

Promoted by the Pan American Center on Foot and Mouth Disease (Panaftosa) and supported by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Hemispheric Conference on Surveillance and Prevention of Avian Influenza was held in Brasilia, DF from November 30 to December 2nd, 2005. BIREME/PAHO/WHO was represented in the event by Shormila Choudhury, a Canadian specialist who made contacts with potential collaborators to the Avian Influenza Portal, an initiative under development
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BIREME proposes VHL Primary Health care in Brazil

The proposal to include the Virtual Health Library - Primary Health Care (VHL Primary Health Care) in the Project to Apply Telematics to Primary Health Care in Brazil was put forward, discussed and approved in the meeting for the development of the Project. The VHL aims to develop sources of information based on scientific evidence and results of good clinical practices
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BIREME takes part in euroCRIS, Information Society and eLAC2007

In Tunisia and Portugal, from November 13-16, 2005, Renato Murasaki represented BIREME/PAHO/WHO in events on information and access: the meeting of the member countries of the European Current Research Information Systems (euroCRIS), when the ScienTI Network was presented; The World Summit on Information Society, which addressed the control of the Internet and digital exclusion of the developing countries, among other issues; and the meeting to implement the eLAC2007, a regional American event before the Summit
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VHL Adolescence is presented in a seminar on teaching health sciences

Health Information at the adolescent space of the VHL Adolec Brazil is the theme of the poster presented by Miriam Piazza, author, librarian of the Information Cooperative Services Management (SCI) of BIREME/PAHO/WHO, at the 2nd International Seminar on Health Sciences Teaching, Training and Learning: Practices and Knowledges, held in Sao Paulo, on November 28, 2005
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