The Joanna Briggs Institue (JBI) is a not-for-profit initiative of the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, with headquarters in Adelaide, and twenty-eight Collaborating Centres across the world. Established in 1996, the Institute is now a major international agency for evidence-based health and aged care.
The Joanna Briggs Institute provides extensive, free-access information about evidence based health care on its website. But its main product is JBI COnNECT – the Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics.
JBI COnNECT is a subscription-only online gateway to a collection of evidence-based resources and tools designed to assist in the clinical decision-making process and to support best practice. These resources and tools allow users to engage in the “six essential steps of evidence-based health care”: to search, appraise, summarise, embed, utilise, and evaluate evidence-based information.
JBI COnNECT comprises a series of sites on selected areas of health, referred to as ‘nodes’. All nodes contain the same resources and programs, but the information included in each node is specific to that area of health. Alternatively, users can search for information from all nodes.
CSU users should have access to all the material on the JBI website. It is recommended that, in order to gain a full understanding of the JBI and its resources, users check the information provided via the tabs at the top of the Joanna Briggs Institute's web page. This will reveal not only the scope of the databases, but how to find links to useful web pages.