A Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde - Enfermagem: um desafio a ser vencido

Abstract

Virtual access to information is a current and noticed need for nursing area, both to the education of new professionals and to permanent education as well as to the consolidation of this knowledge area. The creation of virtual libraries in health area seems to be the path to face this challenge. The Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem-ABEn (Brazilian Nursing Society), through the Nursing Research and Studies Center, has started political efforts yet in the last decade to organize with established partnership, a database that supports information needs of the Brazilian nursing community. By the same time J. Baeta Vianna Library, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in partnership with the Biblioteca Regional de Medicina-BIREME (Regional Library of Medicine) organized in 1988 the Base de Dados em Enfermagem-BDEnf (Nursing Database). Lately created the Sub-Rede Brasileira de Informação em Enfermagem-SuREnf (Brazilian Sub-Network of Nursing Information), part of the BIREME/OPAS Brazilian Information Network in Health Sciences, promoving a quality in storage and retrieval of publishing material of this area.