Loading documents to PHINE, or any PHINE platform site allows you to share your information with groups of the wider community.

Files are usually loaded to working groups and can be restricted to that group or share with the wider network.

PHINE has developed a number of concepts to facilitate knowledge exchange and dissemination of work either to your own networks or to the broader health community.

Topic Themed Special Collections

What is it?

Special Collections are a concept to gather and store topic related resources from across the PHINE platform into a single location. Each Special Collection is divided into the follow types of resource:

• Events
• Files
• Groups
• Links
• News
• People
• Publications

You can find a full list of the Special Collections here.

Resources in the Special Collections are made up of contributions from websites including Fuse, PHINE, NEPHO and Our Vision, Our Future so that resources cover research, evidence and practice.

How it works

For a file to appear in the Special Collection folders it must be tagged.

Load a file using the file load tool. When the file has loaded click the Topics and Collections tab indicated in the figure below:

On the left you will find a list of the Topics that make up the Special Collections. Click the box next to the topic you wish to add your resource too and it will be made available to the wider network.

Only share your resource in this way if you are happy for it to be in the public domain. The software will automatically add information to the Special Collections to indicate where a file has been sourced from and what type of resource it is.

Remember to click save!

Sharing Resouces with your Networks.

On the right of the Topics and Collections tab are a list of all the groups you are a member of. Clicking those groups allows you view all the collections within that group.

Using the check box you are able to add your file to multiple groups, in multiple collections with only the need to load it a single time.

This method of tagging allows you to restrict access to a document to those groups which you choose to share that resource with.

Remember to click save!