Mrs Christine Goodair
Since 2007 I have been at St. George’s working on a range of substance misuse projects. My current programmes of work are Substance Misuse in the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum, EU- Madness, a project monitoring the health harms of novel psychoactive substances, the National Programme on Drug Related Deaths and helping with the St George’s heritage/archives programme.
Previously, I worked for over 20 years in special libraries and information services. My last information role was at DrugScope as manager of their information services and website, including working on two European projects on addictions.
The SALIS Collection: Preserving and making available addiction literature through a digital archive accessible to all
In 2013, SALIS established a project to create a digital collection of books, reports, and other seminal documents focused on alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, freely available to all and international in its scope.
In 2003 the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the US agency focusing on alcohol research, de-funded ETOH, its alcohol science bibliographic database. This left the alcohol research community without its ongoing compilation of the research literature. SALIS fought to retain the database without success. Seeing that other resources began to disappear SALIS set up an advocacy group to monitor this emerging trend. Over 65 specialist addictions libraries and databases worldwide have been closed, leaving the field without key collections essential for current and historical research.
The SALIS advocacy group discussed the impact upon the research communities of the loss of such resources and sought the views of leading researchers as to what could be done to fill the emerging gap in access to resources. SALIS ‘ research led them to identify a partner organisation- the Internet Archive – to work with on establishing a digital collection. Following the formal setting up of the SALIS Addiction Digitization Project a work plan was developed that includes target setting; collection development; fundraising; cataloguing/metadata standards for records; dissemination; with periodic audits of the holdings’ records to ensure standards are adhered to and that copyright is respected. Outcome measures include loans, downloads and viewing figures of the collection.
This poster will tell the project ‘s story from inception, up to today.
Co-Authors
Meg Brunner, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA; Sheila Lacroix, Formerly of CAMH Library, Toronto, Canada; Isabelle Michot, Observatoire FranÇais des Drogues et des Toxicomanies (OFDT) France; Andrea Mitchell, SALIS Executive Director, Berkeley, Californis, USA; Julie Murphy, Director of Library Services, Prevention Research Center (PRC), Oakland California, USA; Jane Shelling, Library Manager, Australian Institute of Criminology Library, Canberra, Australia; Nancy Sutherland, Director, Library and Information Services, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI) University of Washington, Seattle, USA; Marc Wauter, Librarian, Vereniging voor Alcohol en andere Drugproblemen (VAD) Brussels, Belgium; Barbara Weiner, Manager, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Library Center City, MN 55012 USA
Conflicts of interest:
No conflict of interest
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