VHL Model
THE BV UNIFESP Scientific Trajectory adopts the Model of the Virtual Health Library developed by the BIREME/PAHO/WHO. In accordance to this model, the opportunity of BV UNIFESP shelters a network of sources and flows of information operated on decentralized mode by different departments and entities related to the scientific memory of UNIFESP, maintaining the interoperability with networks of international available references sources.
VHL (Virtual Health Library) is the model of technical cooperation of BIREME in the paradigm of the Web information and communication, characterized by the direct action of the users in the production, operation, publication, and access to the sources and flows of information. The VHL model covers three main dimensions:
- Social Networks: Networks made up of institutions and individuals who are producers, intermediaries and users of information. These networks are extended and operate in geographic and thematic scopes. There are networks made up of libraries, editors, thematic communities, etc. with local, national and regional scope.
- Contents Networks: Online operated networks of sources and flows of information over the Internet, based on information products, services and events, which are supported by institutions and individuals' networks;
- Learning and Informed Environments promoting, within the scope of the institutions involved and in the context of heath, research and education systems, learning and informed environments with a modus operandi designed to maximize the exchange of information, knowledge and experience, as well as to promote the inclusion of its several players within VHL national and international networks and other supplementary networks.
See more: VHL Guide 2005