‘AIDS InfoNet’ consortium of HIV and AIDS related e-books

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Dear Colleagues,

`AIDS InfoNet' is a consortium of HIV and AIDS related e-books (please

see list at the end of this mail) offering free and perpetual access

for National AIDS Control Organization, all state AIDS Control

Societies and 281 MCI approved medical colleges in India.

UNAIDS has pioneered this initiative in tandem with its commitment to provide

reliable technical information to decision makers and thus help in the delivery

of an effective response.

AIDS InfoNet consists of e-books from reputed publishers, covering a

range of important issues relating to HIV and AIDS. Advantages of the

consortium are multifold, e.g., it is possible to share the licenses

for subscribed books across several institutions where users can

access them from the place of their convenience.

The facility also allows information search across the book collection,

bypassing individual book indexes/contents page as in the case of paper books.

It even allows one to track the usage, thereby allowing efficient

decisions on further purchases etc.

The consortium was released by Mr. Naresh Dayal, Secretary, Ministry

of Health and Family Welfare on 20 December 2007 at New Delhi.

The information on accessing the consortium has been dispatched to all

the institutions more than a month ago.

Information dissemination within the institution often takes time (as

also there is a possibility of the letter getting mis-delivered). I,

therefore seek the help of colleagues on this list who also belong to

the consortia member institutions to please give us some feedback on

the availability of the access and information on experience of users.

This will help us respond appropriately for dissemination / awareness

generation and decisions on the expansion of the consortium. We are

also tracking extent of use electronically to assist decision making

in this regard.

Thanking you and with best regards,

Ranjan

Ranjan Dwivedi

Technical Advisor, UNAIDS India

Tel: +91-11-41354545 Ext. 317

Email: dwivedir@... / dwivedir@...

*Subscribed titles

1. A generation at risk: The global impact of HIV/AIDS on orphans and

vulnerable children; , Geoff.; Levine, Carol.; on, ;

Cambridge University Press

2. Addressing HIV/AIDS in East Asia and the Pacific {Health,

nutrition, and population series}; World Bank

3. AIDS epidemiology: A quantitative approach {Monographs in

epidemiology and biostatistics; v. 22}; Brookmeyer, Ron; Gail,

H.;Oxford University Press (US)

4. Beyond condoms: Alternative approaches to HIV prevention;O'Leary,

Ann.;Springer Science & Business Media

5. Cardiovascular disease in AIDS; Barbaro, Giuseppe.; Boccara,

Franck.; Springer Science & Business Media

6. Community interventions and AIDS; Trickett, Edison J.; Pequegnat,

Willo.; Oxford University Press (US)

7. Courting rights: Case studies in litigating the human rights of

people living with HIV {UNAIDS best practice collection}; Elliott,

; WHO

8. Deterministic and stochastic models of AIDS epidemics and HIV

infections with intervention; Tan, W. Y. ;Wu, Hulin.; World Scientific

Publishing Co.

9. Handbook of pediatric HIV care {2nd ed.}; Zeichner, L.;

Read, S.; Cambridge University Press

10. HIV prevention among young injecting drug users;United Nations

Publications

11. HIV/AIDS and information; Stanton, Theresa.; Arski, Yuri.;

& Francis Routledge

12. HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in India: Modeling the costs and

consequences {Health, nutrition, and population series}; Over, A.

Mead.; World Bank

13. Human immunodeficiency virus: A medical dictionary, bibliography,

and annotated research guide to internet references; , N.;

, Philip M.; Icon Group International, Inc

14. Human retrovirus protocols: Virology and molecular biology

{Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.); v. 304}; Zhu, Tuofu.;

Humana Press

15. Learning from HIV/AIDS {Biosocial Society symposium series};

Ellison, ; , ; , ; Cambridge

University Press

16. Legal and ethical aspects of HIV-related research {Language of

science}; Loue, Sana; Plenum Press

17. Micronutrients & HIV infection {Modern nutrition (Boca Raton,

Fla.)}; Friis, Henrik; CRC Press

18. Population, reproductive rights and reproductive health with

special reference to HIV/AIDS: A concise report; United Nations

Publications

19. Positive prevention: Reducing HIV transmission among people living

with HIV/AIDS; Kalichman, Seth C.; Springer Science & Business Media

20. Preventing HIV/AIDS in young people: A systematic review of the

evidence from developing countries {Technical report series (World

Health Organization) ; 938};Ross, A.; Dick, Bruce.; Ferguson,

Jane.; WHO

21. Privacy and disclosure of HIV in interpersonal relationships: A

sourcebook for researchers and practitioners {LEA's communication

series}; Greene, .; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

22. Psychosocial and public health impacts of new HIV therapies {AIDS

prevention and mental health}; Ostrow, G.; Kalichman, Seth C.;

Springer Science & Business Media

23. Rethinking AIDS prevention: Learning from successes in developing

countries;Green, C; Greenwood Publishing Group

24. Safer sex in personal relationships: The role of sexual scripts in

HIV infection and prevention {LEA's series on personal relationships};

Emmers-Sommer, Tara M.; , Mike; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

25. Social networks, drug injectors' lives, and HIV/AIDS {AIDS

prevention and mental health}; Friedman, R.;Springer Science &

Business Media

26. Textbook of pediatric HIV care; Zeichner, L.; Read,

S.; Cambridge University Press

27. The AIDS pandemic: Complacency, injustice, and unfulfilled

expectations {Studies in social medicine}; Gostin, Larry O.;

University of North Carolina Press

28. The encyclopedia of HIV and AIDS {Facts on File library of health

and living; 2nd ed.};Watstein, ; Stratton, E.;Facts on

File, Inc.

29. War on drugs, HIV/AIDS, and human rights {Sourcebook on

contemporary controversies}; Malinowska-Sempruch, Kasia.; Gallagher,

.; International Debate Education Association