Abstract
This paper introduces the online Sociometrics Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences Library, an exciting new science-based resource for HIV/AIDS researchers, health educators, and clinicians. The over 400 products in the Sociometrics Library supplement the online publications—journal articles, books, reports, monographs—that have been the focus of scientific research libraries and publishers to date, both printed and online. Examples of the innovative science-based products that serve as the library’s content include: Evidence-based interventions and programs (EBIs/EBPs) that evaluation research has shown to be effective in preventing HIV or its risky social and behavioral antecedents; primary research data and survey instruments; and interactive, multimedia training tools and courses to build HIV professionals’ capacity to implement EBPs with fidelity and to cooperate with evaluators in the assessment of their effectiveness. A Scientist Expert Panel has guided and will continue to guide product selection and acquisition, ensuring the collection’s continuing technical merit, research utility, and relevance for practice and policy. The Sociometrics Library aims to become the dominant online source of behavioral and social science-based HIV research by-products, operationally sustainable and able to stay up-to-date both from a technological and scientific perspective.
Highlights
IntroductionThe populations most profoundly affected by the HIV epidemic include specific racial and ethnic minority groups, gay or bisexual men who have sex with other men (MSM), sex workers, and injection drug users
Despite global efforts to address the AIDS epidemic, HIV infection remains a significant problem, for low-resource countries and US minority populations who are disproportionately carrying the HIV burden [1] [2] [3]
This paper introduces the online Sociometrics Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences Library, an exciting new science-based resource for HIV/AIDS researchers, health educators, and clinicians
Summary
The populations most profoundly affected by the HIV epidemic include specific racial and ethnic minority groups, gay or bisexual men who have sex with other men (MSM), sex workers, and injection drug users. Among racial and ethnic groups in the US, African American and Hispanic men and women continue to be at higher risk of contracting HIV and yet have lower access to testing, prevention, and healthcare [2] [3] [6]. According to the CDC, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, African Americans and Hispanics represent 30% of the US population but accounted for 69% of new HIV infections in 2016 [5]
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