Norwegian electronic health library ICOLC Philadelphia, March 2006 Kjell 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 involved in the library project Regional health trusts (North, Middle, West, South and East) Norwegian knowledge centre for the health services Department of health Directorate of health and 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 Nursing Evidence Based Mental Health –1100 journals (ProQuest) including: The Lancet The 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

Thank you! Norwegian electronic health library