The National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) has announced that the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are moving forward with the development of the Canadian Virtual Health Library (CVHL) - a first for Canada.
The CVHL is funded by CIHR through its Knowledge Synthesis and Exchange Branch for $800,000 over three years. It is expected to provide all Canadian health professionals - administrators, policy and programme planners, researchers and public health workers as well as clinicians, such as doctors and nurses - easy access to current, authoritative information and expert support from the network of libraries contributing to CVHL.
The CVHL will build a pan-Canadian virtual client-centric network to link local, regional and provincial health library services and maximise resources through coordinated resource sharing and licensing. A bilingual web portal will provide an easy entry point to these resources and to library expertise. The result will be a tailored, rapid response to health professionals' requirements for evidence-based information to support patient care decisions, health promotion and public health programming.
The CVHL will be rolled out over a three year period beginning in 2010.
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