A new online health information resource has been launched February 2009 in the US. The Medpedia is a medical enclyclopaedia that only health professionals will be able to produce and edit the content for. Medpedia also is one example of collaborative web2.0 based information resources for medicine. It has been developed in association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and Univerity of Michigan Medical School. There are three services currently available through MedPedia as follows:
• a collaborative encyclopaedia or knowledge base (a wiki)
• a Network & Directory for health professionals and organizations
• Communities of Interest where medical professionals and non-professionals can share information.
About Me
- Vahideh Zarea Gavgani
- I received my Ph.D in Library and Information Science with Medical and Health Science speciality from Osmania University, India, in 2009. I received Master degree in Library and Information Science from Tehran University ,Iran, in 2001, and I completed my BA in the same subject in Tabriz University , Iran, 1996. I have 4 years teaching experience in the Departments of Library and Information Science in different Universities including Tabriz University of Medicine,(www.tbzmed.ac.ir); University College of Nabi Akram (www.ucna.ac.ir), Payam-e-Noor University of Tabriz(www.pnu-tabriz.ac.ir). I also have 4 years experience of Library management as head of library of Tabriz Faculty of Medicine. I also worked as cataloger,classifier, Indexer, In the library of Medical School, Tabriz University of Medicine, and Shiraz University of Medicine.
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