Pioneering Partnerships: Building a Demand-Driven Consortium eBook Collection

Ebook Collection Analysis: Subject and Publisher Trends

Consumer-driven health care: building partnerships in research.

Over the past four decades, there has been a widespread movement to increase the involvement of patients and the public in health care. Strategies to effectively foster consumer participation are occurring within all research activities from research priority setting to utilization. One of the ten principles of the Cochrane Collaboration is to 'enable wide participation', and this includes cons...

Building a test collection for speech-driven web retrieval

This paper describes a test collection (benchmark data) for retrieval systems driven by spoken queries. This collection was produced in the subtask of the NTCIR-3 Web retrieval task, which was performed in a TREC-style evaluation workshop. The search topics and document collection for the Web retrieval task were used to produce spoken queries and language models for speech recognition, respecti...

Building international partnerships.

Health is a global concern. Although nursing is a global profession, most schools of nursing concentrate on teaching health exclusively within the context of their own nation. Sister-school partnerships that cross national boundaries are one way of extending the learning opportunities of faculties and students. An example of a 5-year partnership is described and analysed.

Building strength through partnerships.

the fall 2003 conference and annual meeting held in Ottawa in September. As we move forward, our work continues to be shaped by the vision of the Academy: to become a national voice for executive nurse leaders, to influence and participate in direction setting for healthcare policy, to contribute to the alignment and advancement of the national nursing agenda and to develop strong strategic coa...