SHARingpoint website adds new features

Dear all,

I have the pleasure to contact you in behalf of the SHARED (Scientists for Health and Research for Development) Network to introduce some new features of our website, the SHARingpoint site: www.sharingpoint.net

It has been already some time since we first offered the possibility for the users to register in "My SHARingpoint" (gateway at the right side on the SHARingpoint website) to receive messages when health news matching the user's interest profile would be added to our site.

In our effort to improve the access to validated information to developing countries, now, when the user defines a search profile, he/she will also be presented with the additional choice of receiving Medline abstracts and/or online journals of BioMedCentral in the email alert messages.

The user can change the SHARingpoint service account or queries and also the sensitivity of the matching (low or high) at any time. The access to full text will depend though, on the owner of the information. For journals of limited access, we suggest to use the WHO HINARI site:  www.healthinternetwork.org an initiative to promote free access to literature on public health to developing countries. The user must check if he/she is entitled to register for their service. The SHARingpoint will help to automatically find articles of interest and the HINARI may help to give access to full text — and not only the abstract — if it is not publicly available. Soon both initiatives will be linked to facilitate the search; we are already working in this direction.

As you will notice, "My SHARingpoint" is a very special tool that has no costs for the user and can help health professionals and researchers to keep up to date with health news and with peer-review literature.

An additional advantage is that when the user receives the alert message, the link will lead directly to the information source. This saves time of search using an Internet connection, what might help people with expensive lines (you don't have to go to the SHARingpoint to open the link that comes with the email).

Please use the SHARED SHARingpoint and the email alert service and reproduce this message to all potential users at your organization.

Should you have any questions or comments, please contact the SHARED Secretariat at info@sharingpoint.net

Hope you will enjoy the new service,

Agnes Soares, MD, MPH SHARED Executive Secretary
SHARED - Scientists for Health and Research for Development NWO/IB — Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Department of International Relations
PO Box 93120 2509 AC
The Hague
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-70-3440849 
Fax: +31-70-3819874
Website: Soares@NWO.NL
www.sharingpoint.net

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