The Norwegian Electronic Health Library; open access, collaboration and sharing

The Norwegian Knowledge Centre for Health Services and The Norwegian Electronic Health Library (www.Helsebiblioteket.no) aim to make quality assured health services research and health information freely available to all health professionals and the general population of Norway. Open access is set forth in the guidelines of our work.
Helsebiblioteket.no was established in 2006 and has been a great success in Norway.
 
Local librarians as ambassadors:
A Section for Medicine and Health (SMH) was formally established under the Norwegian Library Association in 1975. This section has been very vital and important for collaboration between librarians within the field of medicine and health, both in Norway and internationally. Helsebiblioteket.no has great advantage of the competence of SMH members working all over Norway in different health institutions. The librarians are important mediators of Helsebiblioteket.no. We make each other better. Quite recently Norwegian have gained access to most of the important medical resources on the national IP address, so the staff at Helsebiblioteket.no work for closer collaboration with our public libraries in Norway. With a new reform in health care, stressing the need of more collaboration between community and hospital care, this is important and natural.

Health education and promotion.
Dr. Peter Fredrik Hjort (1924-2011) was an outstanding practitioner, educator, researcher, creator of health policy and a proponent of medical ethics and quality of life for patients and their families.
We honored Peter F. Hjort through collecting and making the most of his publications available in www.Cristin.no (Current research information system in Norway), with links to full text in HeRA (Helsebiblioteket’s Research Archive) and other open archives by the end of 2011. This is much appreciated by health professionals.

MeSH translation to Norwegian.
Another important project, focusing on collaboration between libraries, health services and The Language Council of Norway, is the Norwegian translation of the "Medical Subject Headings" (MeSH). We have great support from NLM and Karolisnka Institute in Stockholm.