[August 2006]
Newsletters and journals database - feedback
Source is looking for suggestions for its Newsletters and journals database, which covers the practice, management and communication of health and disability in development. If you publish, or receive and use, a newsletter or journal, search our database to make sure we've got it listed. The Source Newsletters and journals database is an online resource designed to help organisations, north and south, identify journals that they want to subscribe to. read more »

[August 2006]
Child-centred responses to HIV and AIDS: memory work CD-ROM
Source International Information Centre and Healthlink Worldwide have launched new CD-ROM, “Child-centred approaches to HIV and AIDS: memory work”, at the OVC Symposium of the XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto. The CD gathers together tools, manuals, case studies and useful contacts for organisations interested in using the memory work approach to psychosocial interventions with communities. It covers programme management, fundraising, training, monitoring and evaluating memory work, as well as advocacy, ARV treatment literacy, using ICTs, networking, documenting and learning from development work. A special section brings together information about children aged 0-8 and HIV and AIDS. The CD-ROM also includes the full text of The memory work trainer's manual. read more »

[April 2006]
Disability, inclusion and development: key information resources
Three hundred of the most practical and useful disability resources are listed in Source’s new directory and CD-ROM, “Disability, development and inclusion: key information resources”. The information covers a wide range of themes including human rights, gender, poverty and mainstreaming, as well as planning and management of disability programmes and service delivery relating to children, community-based rehabilitation, mental health and HIV and AIDS. read more »

[March 2006]
Source disability resources reclassified
Source has comprehensively revised the disability section of its classification scheme, and has reclassified over 4,000 relevant materials in its Bibliographic database. The improved classification scheme more closely reflects the social model of working with disabled people. The revision makes reference to WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), and ensures that Source keeps pace with current trends and terminology in the disability sector. The development of the new scheme was funded by DFID through the Disability KaR programme, and involved consultation with experts and practitioners in the disability and information management fields. Browse through the new subject terms. Contact Deepthi Wickremasinghe with comments and suggestions or for further details.

[July 2005]
Source website on CD-ROM
The Source bibliographic database, Resource Centre Manual and Key lists have been recreated on CD-ROM. Resource centres and other Source users who have limited access to the Internet will find that the advanced search technology used on the CD-ROM makes information retrieval as sophisticated and user friendly as on the website. Abstracts and distributor details of resources are given, as well as links to full text documents online where possible so that these can be noted down to use if and when Internet access becomes available. Contact Deepthi Wickremasinghe for further details.

[June 2005]
New look for the Source website
The new Source website went live at the end of May and has gone on to receive positive feedback from both new and existing users. The main focus of the redesign was on improving the user experience. New ways of finding relevant information resources have been provided, and the site has been designed to meet W3C accessibility standards. The redesign was funded by the DfID Disability KaR programme (see May 2004 item below). If you have any comments or suggestions on the new site we would love to hear from you: email Deepthi Wickremasinghe.

[January 2005]
Source and the IDDC create CD-ROM for 5th Ad Hoc meeting of the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in New York

This CD-ROM of 120 resources is aimed at disabled people's organisations (DPOs), disability non-government organisations (NGOs) and governments. read more »

[September 2004]
Disability information needs assessment
Source conducted a needs assessment to examine the current knowledge, experiences and needs of organisations seeking disability related information read more »

[May 2004]
Improving access to disability information.
Source and Handicap International are working on a DfID Disability Knowledge and Research (KaR) funded project which aims to improve access to, and raise awareness of, disability related information produced by or for people in developing countries. More information can be found on the KaR website at www.disabilitykar.net