The Electronic Health Library of BC

Improving access to knowledge for BC’s health professionals, researchers and students

Project Vision

To provide the entire British Columbia academic and health care community with province-wide, consistent, high quality, cost-effective, equitable, and easily accessible health library resources that will support and improve practice, education, and research.

Project Mission

To build a consortium for collaboration, support, training, and for the sharing of information resources that will foster cross-sectoral collaboration in the selection, acquisition, and management of BC’s e-library health information resources.   

Consortium members

• 6 Health Authorities

• 24 Post-secondary Institutions

• 3 Provincial Ministries Ministry of Health Ministry of Children and Family Development Ministry of Advanced Education

• College of Physicians & Surgeons of British Columbia

Goals

• Improve Health Outcomes and Enhance the Quality of Care

• Recruit and Retain Health Professionals

• Meet the Needs of the Expanded Medical Program

• Support Student Learning Across the Province

• Support Health Research

Principles

• Simplify Access

• Eliminate Duplication of Resources

• Maximize Access and Minimize Costs

Resources

Abstract and Index Collections:

• MEDLINE

• CINAHL with Full Text

• PsycINFO

• EBM Reviews– Full text access to the Cochrane Database of Systematic

Reviews and ACP Journal Club

Subject coverage: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences and more

Over 13 million citations to articles from over 4,800 journals

OLDMEDLINE (1950-1965) and In Process and Out of Scope citations also searchable

Available via OVID and EBSCO interfaces

MEDLINE

Subject coverage: nursing, allied health, consumer health, patient education information

Indexes 2,737 journals, as well as books/book chapters, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals

More than 1 million records dating back to 1982

Includes PreCINAHL database of yet to be indexed citations

Searchable on the EBSCO interface

CINAHL with Full Text

Subject coverage: : psychology, psychiatry, and related disciplines

Indexes nearly 2,000 journals, as well as book chapters, books, and dissertations dating as far back as 1887

Searchable on the EBSCO interface

PsycINFO

Definitive resource for evidence based medicine that combines 4 resources into a single database: Cochrane Database of Systematic

Reviews (full text) ACP Journal Club (full text) Database of Abstracts of Reviews of

Effects (DARE) Cochrane Central Register of

Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)

EBM Reviews (OVID)

Resources

Full text collections:

PsycARTICLES 56 journals covering general psychology

and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research psychology, as well as psychiatry

Journal coverage goes back to 1985

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Total Access Collection

Over 200 journals covering medicine, nursing and bioscience

Full text searchable on the OVID interface

EBSCO Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Approx. 900 journals indexed in

MEDLINE, covering clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, the health care system, and more