WHO Institutional Repository for Information
Sharing (IRIS)

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What is WHO?
 UN specialized agency for health (1948)
 194 Member States (Ministries of Health)collectively decide together with WHO
Secretariat on global health priorities andaction to save lives and improve health.
 Headquarters in Geneva, 6 regional offices,
151 country offices
 Secretariat is staffed by some 7500 healthand other experts and support staff
 Director-General: Dr Margaret Chan

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Main Function of WHO
To act as the directing and coordinating authority on
international health work
The main function is defined by the WHO Constitution

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Objective of WHO
The objective of the World Health Organization shallbe the attainment by all people of the highest possiblelevel of health.
(Article 1, Chapter I, WHO Constitution)

Session 2: Open Access (APAME 2013 Tokyo)WHO Headquarters and Regions• Copenhagen, Denmark Geneva, Switzerland• Washington DC, USA• Cairo, Egypt • New Delhi, India• Manila, Philippines• Brazzaville, Congo

Staff

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Headquarters:
26.3%
Regional Offices: 23.6%
Country Offices: 50.1%

WHO Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO)•Located in Manila,Philippines•

37 countries andareas•

Over 1.6 billionpeople•

Ethnically,
linguistically andculturally diverse

Session 2: Open Access (APAME 2013 Tokyo)WHO Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) Dr Shin Young-soo, Regional Director
 4 technical divisions– Combatting communicablediseases– Health Security and Emergency– Building healthy community andpopulations– Health sector development
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Countries and Areasof the Western Pacific Region

Mongolia
Rep. ofKorea
China

Japan

Hong Kong (China)
Macao (China)
Lao PDR
Philippines
Cambodia Viet Nam
Brunei
Darussalam
Singapore

NorthernMariana Islands
Guam

Marshall Islands
Federated Statesof Micronesia
Palau
Papua
Kiribati
Nauru
New Guinea
Malaysia
SolomonTuvaluTokelauIslands
Wallis &Vanuatu
FutunaFijiAmerican
New
Samoa
Samoa
Caledonia
Australia
Tonga
Niue
FrenchPolynesia
CookIslands
New Zealand
Pitcairn Island

Session 2: Open Access (APAME 2013 Tokyo)WHO WPRO Library Collects, organizes and disseminates medical and health related
literature to respond to the information requirements of the Regional
Office and field staff, United Nations agencies staff and internationalorganizations as well as researchers from Member States of theWHO Western Pacific Region.
 Collaborates with the member countries for the continuing
development of the Global Health Library (GHL), the Regional Index
Medicus (WPRIM) and implementation of access to HINARI(Research4Life).

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WPRO Library

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What is WHO IRIS?
 Multilingualism plan of action wasestablished in 2007 through a series ofdiscussions and resolutions of WHO’s WHAand EB to increase worldwide access toWHO multilingual publications.
– WHA58/39, EB122/29, EB121/6,EB122/20, EB122/R9, WHA61/31 andEB124/24
 Institutional Repository for Information
Sharing

 Digital library of WHO’s information products
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Main Function of IRIS
The WHO global institutional repository (GIR) will assemble andstore, in digital form, WHO’s intellectual output in all available
languages via a single location (URL) with multilingual searchingcapabilities
Data will be stored in a decentralized model:
Global IR - http://www.who.int/iris
Regional IR under construction

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Candidate for IRIS
Digital library of WPRO’s information products which
includes but not limited to the following:•Regional Committee (RCM) documents•Regional publications•Technical documents and reports•Meeting reports•Mission reports•Journal articles written by staff using WPRO affiliation•Publications supported/funded by WPRO

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Development of IRIS
Under development:• Customization of the user interface• Will be available and searchable in three officiallanguages (Chinese, English and French)• Addition of specific modules and features• Encoding of data
Working closely with Seoul National University for the technicalaspects of the IR
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Support for IRIS The Institute of Medical Information Chinese Academy ofMedical Sciences (IMICAMS) supported the IRIS projectby agreeing to provide subject indexing (Chinese MeSH)
for WHO documents published in the Chinese language.
 SNU for technical specificities

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Challenges
 Selection of material
 No access to paper for WHO staff
 Digitization of WPRO material Lack of staff

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THANK YOU
Marie Villemin Partow
Publications Officer, WHO WPRO(in charge of Translation, Publicationsand Library Services)

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