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"Established in 1994, the Consortium of Ontario Academic Health Libraries (COAHL) grew out of an Associated Medical Services Inc. (AMS) initiative to “link” the Ontario university libraries serving medical schools. This was a key component of the AMS commitment to enhancing medical education throughout the province. The libraries shared a common vision with AMS of making health sciences information available as widely as possible and integrating education into the model. AMS, considering the libraries to be catalysts, provided support for the development of COAHL and its activities for ten years.
COAHL fosters dynamic collaborative and cooperative activities among its member institutions to provide enhanced access to information for all health professionals within the universities and their regional affiliations. COAHL is proactive in initiating resource sharing and funding partnerships to enable educational and outreach activities in Ontario ".
For more information on member institutions, executive officers, and members click on the link above or the image to go to the COAHL website.
COAHL has successfully negotiated access to a number of health information resources of common interest to the member institutions.
Negotiating goals include:
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.
For more information and a list of products COAHL has signed contracts with visit the COAHL eResources page.
