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Dunne, Mary (2015) NDC drugs library – new resource for practitioners. Drugnet Ireland, Issue 54, Summer 2015, p. 23.

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Every year we add hundreds of new articles and reports to our library collection. In order to help relieve information overload we have a number of summarised aids, such as Drugnet Ireland, NDC newsletter, and factsheets.

 

Practitioners in the alcohol and drugs area have limited time to keep up-to-date with research and evidence, so need easy access to research on subjects related to their work or profession. In order to facilitate this, the NDC librarians have developed a ‘practitioner’ resource. The homepage https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/practitioners has links to a number of subject areas. The ‘key Irish data’ link and those on the bottom row are relevant to most workers. Clicking on a link will show you recent Irish and international articles and reports on that subject.

With the help of some wonderful advisers from social work and social care work professions, we have also developed pages for specific professions. We hope to add more of these in the future. Each of these pages lists key documents and has links to subjects of particular interest to that profession. 

 

The resource includes a page called ‘doing research’, which has links to useful online tools providing help on finding and using information for research. We are interested in collecting and making available local Irish drug or alcohol research done by those working in the area. If practitioners are doing any such research, even a small piece in their organisation, they can submit it to us at ndc@hrb.ie

 

We would also welcome feedback with recommendations for key documents, subject areas and anything else practitioners would like to see in their resource.

Item Type
Article
Publication Type
Irish-related, Open Access, Article
Drug Type
All substances
Intervention Type
Education and training
Issue Title
Issue 54, Summer 2015
Date
July 2015
Page Range
p. 23
Publisher
Health Research Board
Volume
Issue 54, Summer 2015
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