Consortium of Ontario Academic Health Libraries
Jointly negotiated products
COAHL has successfully negotiated access to a number of health information resources of common interest to the member institutions.
Negotiating goals include:
- Best price
- Remote access
- Site license with unlimited users
In addition to renewal of existing contracts, COAHL considers additional products on a yearly basis. Product trials are arranged for the entire group of schools and evaluations from each site are collected and summarized to guide our purchase decisions.
Currently COAHL has signed contracts for the following products:
| Product Name | Description |
| Ovid Products | |
| AMED | Allied and alternative medicine database |
Embase |
Biomedical and Pharmaceutical database |
HAPI |
Health and Psychosocial Instruments |
| Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins Total Access collection | More than 260 medical and nursing electronic journals |
| HealthStar | Database of citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research. |
| Medline | United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) premier bibliographic database for Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Veterinary medicine, Allied health, and Pre-clinical sciences |
| Other Products | |
| CINAHL (EBSCO) | Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature |
| Thieme e-book library | An electronic book collection of textbooks and anatomical atlases |
| Natural Standard | Databases which provide high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies |
| BMJ journal package plus Clinical Evidence | Specialist journals from BMJ and an international source of the best available evidence for effective healthcare |
| Essential Evidence Plus (Wiley) | Formerly InfoPOEMs/InfoRetriever. A powerful electronic resource packed with all of the medical evidence you need to make critical patient care decisions. |
| Mary Ann Liebert online journals | Authoritative peer-reviewed journals,in the most promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, alternative and complementary medicine. |
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