ROADS Newsletter - Issue 9 - July 1999 - BIOME Hub Anouncement

John Kirriemuir talks about the next stage in the evolution of the OMNI service, the BIOME Hub.

BIOME

"The Living Hub"

Looking for quality resources in the health, medical and life sciences? BIOME will cover plants, animals, patients, agriculture, pharmaceutical sciences, medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary sciences, agriculture, forestry information, the natural world, clinical sciences, and much, much more...

BIOME will build on the experiences, skills and content of the established OMNI service (providing half a decade of biomedical informatics services), and expand to cover all areas within the health, life and medical sciences.

The service will be coordinated by the University of Nottingham, where OMNI is based, and will be a Hub within the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). The service will be consortium based, and OMNI is joined by a formidable range of high profile partners and content providers from the UK health, medical and life science sectors. These are:

• the Natural History Musuem, who will also host the Natural World component of the service
• CTI Biology, at the University of Liverpool
• the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
• Oxford University
• Reading University
• BRIL
• the BBSRC Research Insitutes Librarians organisation
• the Royal Free Hospital

These partners will bring invaluable subject-based skills, expertise and profile, and are already participating in the development of BIOME.

More details are available at:

http://omni.ac.uk/newsletter/issue26/rdnc/

To enable us to provide this enlarged service, new staff will be taken on board to complement the existing skills and experience. If you wish to work for a high profile, quality-based electronic information service, then keep an eye on adverts appearing over the next few weeks, either on relevant mailing lists or on the OMNI site. Positions in management, technical and content provision and maintenance roles will become available.

In addition, people, institutions or organisations who may wish to give either content, or generously provide supplementary funding or financial donations, are welcome to contact us:

Enquiries: webmaster@omni.ac.uk

Funding/donations: funding@omni.ac.uk

BIOME will be represented at the UmbrelLA 5 Conference:

Check out the delegates noticeboard at the event for further details.

For further details on the Resource Discovery Network, contact Mr Lorcan Dempsey:
Email: l .dempsey@ukoln.ac.uk
Web: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/l.dempsey.html

John Kirriemuir,
OMNI Service Manager

Issue 9 July 1999