Easier access to participatory communication resources

The Source information website, in which Exchange is a partner, has benefited from a complete redesign with a new section devoted to particpatory communication.

Source’s successful Key lists of essential resources have been made more visible and new titles continue to be added regularly. The Source databases provide easy searching of 25,000 health and disability information resources with abstracts and links to full text documents online where available, and it is now also possible for you to promote relevant organisations by adding them directly to the site.

Exchange adds regularly to the Source databases to strengthen the collection of materials around health communication.

The participatory communication window on the Source website gives easy access to this content through nine Source Key lists, which have been developed by Exchange on topics ranging from HIV and AIDS communication to participatory evaluation.

Source and Exchange also combined their expertise to produce the Bernard van Leer information hub. The hub arose from a piece of desk-based research by Exchange's research officer that showed a gap in information on HIV and AIDS and early childhood development. So it made sense to collect existing resources to make them more easily available.

Future plans for Source and Exchange include enabling a network of Southern resource centres - a unique opportunity for individual health information centres to preserve their autonomy, their audiences and their focus, but to share skills, learning and technical developments. And an opportunity to draw on Source's resource centre knowledge and Exchange's networking and learning expertise.

Visit the new site at: www.asksource.info

For more information about Source please contact Myrrhine Crowe, Source Coordinator:
crowe.m@healthlink.org.uk