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Marc Tanti et al., « Processus de veille documentaire scientifique au profit de la veille sanitaire de défense », Humanisme et Entreprise, ID : 10670/1.lnwne9
The main function of the Defense Health Service is to preserve the health of the projected forces. In this context, a Defense health watch duty was defined and entrusted to the Health observation Unit of the French Forces Institute of Tropical Medicine. To complete this mission, three documentation databases were created and broadcasted. Their updating, depending on innovation detection, requires a process of documentary awareness in six phases : definition of the topics to be supervised, selection of the documentary sources, gathering, analysis, reformatting and diffusion of the documents. The various phases are described and the process is evaluated in this article. The definition of the topics to be supervised shows its essential character to avoid the documents out-of-subject. The sources are selected on criteria of volumetry and cover. The gathering is automated by the tools of « push type » and RSS Feed (Really Simple Syndication). The innovation and the validity of the documents are evaluated according to a grid of definite reading. The documents are analyzed statistically by bibliometric tools. Formatted documents are finally spread via the owner network and by email. This process of documentary awareness, structured and organized, involves, for its users, an obvious saving of time. It allows an improvement in quantity and quality of the number of disseminated relevant information. However, it doesn’t yet allow to quantify in real time the number of users to the device.