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Norwegian electronic health library
ICOLC Philadelphia, March 2006Kjell Tjensvoll, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services
Agenda
Norwegian health services
Background and history About health library
project Medical consortium
– Organization– Content– Tender process
Plans for the future
Norwegian health services involvedin the library project
Regional health trusts(North, Middle, West, South and East)
Norwegian knowledgecentre for the health services
Department of health
Directorate of healthand social services
Health library – history
Idea originated ca. year 2000– Inspired by British NHS project
Some time to find support and finance Increasing available technology and content 2004 collaboration projects
– Health library (Norwegian knowledge centre …)
– Guidelines project (Norwegian directorate for health and social services)
2004 Consortium for medical information– Tender process autumn of 2004
Situation before the project started
Best access for academics and others connected to the universities
Limited or no access for practitioners
Health library - target groups
Health personnel– Primary health care– Specialist health care– Government
Students– Colleges– Universities
Health library - content
Research based information with emphasis on aggregated research
Guidelines Topic libraries
– Mental health– Public health– Cancer – Others …
Librarian network Other services
National consortium for medical information - content Databases
– Cochrane Library (Wiley)
– AMED, Cinahl, Embase, Medline, PsycINFO (Ovid)
– Clinical Evidence (BMJ)
Journals– British Medical Journal
Evidence Based Medicine
Evidence Based NursingEvidence Based Mental Health
– 1100 journals (ProQuest) including:The LancetThe New England Journal of Medicine (embargo) - and others
Consortium advisers
Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority
SMH, medical librarians License coordinating
group for college libraries License coordinating
group for university libraries
The Norwegian Medical Association
The Norwegian Nurses Association
Plans for the future - challenges
Develop and expand content and services Expand the content of the consortium
– Buy out embargo periods for important journals– More journals– More databases– e-Books– Other resources
Develop search facilities for the library Open Access
– Setting up institutional repository for health institutions and colleges
– Negotiating a national deal for publishing in BioMed Central
Search
Offer our users high quality results in a user friendly interface
User interface– Help to narrow down the search– Useful for clinicians
Search results– Clustering, ranking, sorting ...
– Aggregated research, Systematic reviews, ...
Technology
