Sometimes, a Resource of the Week-worthy site comes floating in over the virtual transom, as it were. This week, we received an e-mail from librarian Gethin White, Regional Library & Information Service, Dr Steevens Hospital in Dublin, letting us know about LENUS, the newly launched open access Irish health repository.
LENUS provides freely available, full text access to Irish health-related reports, research and official publications. We have already amassed a collection of over 5,000 documents making us the most comprehensive source for Irish Health information on the internet.
LENUS -- which is named for the Celtic God of health and wellbeing -- "is Ireland’s most comprehensive online repository of health-related reports, research and official publications." It includes "material from former Irish health boards, the Health Service Executive, the Department of Health and Children and many other organisations active in the field of Irish health," from 1960 to the present. It has been accepted into the WorldWideScience Alliance, the international web-based science gateway.
You can learn more about this repository via an article by Aoife Lawton, published last October by the Library Association of Ireland: Lenus: From healing God to health repository (PDF; 242 KB).
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