**apologises for cross posting**

21st June 2005

NHS CORE CONTENT TEAM TO ADD WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION E-LIBRARY TO THE
MYILIBRARY CORE CONTENT OFFERING


The NHS Core Content team and MyiLibrary has today announced a major co-
operative effort with the World Health Organization to distribute and
disseminate WHO's medical and health publications and information to all
NHS England staff.

This ground-breaking arrangement sees the WHO e-Library, available on the
MyiLibrary platform and consisting of books, journals, bulletins and other
publications, become available to all NHS England employees as part of the
NHS core content offering. The MyiLibrary platform already hosts a major
collection of e-Books on mental health and the WHO collection of
publications will add significantly to the coverage of this core offering
as well as broadening out the subject coverage into most other health and
medical related topics.

The collaboration with WHO announced today, will see for the first time the
important addition of the WHO publications linked into a single collection
that will allow searching and referencing across all publications and will
ensure that the whole of the NHS England is kept up to date with the latest
output from the WHO. The collection includes the Bulletin of the World
Health Organization as well as the Weekly Epidemiological Record along with
hundreds of books that will be added to on a regular basis. All NHS England
employees will be able to access the collection either directly from the
myilibrary web site, through the NELH web site and through other local NHS
portals.

Scott Gibbens, the NHS Core Content Group Project Manager,
commented, “After starting with a core collection of e-Books on mental
health we are delighted to add this most valuable resource to our content
offering. Quite simply the WHO is one of the most authoritative publishers
in the area of Health and Medicine and allowing Doctors, nurses and other
Health care professionals access to this growing and valuable resource was
deemed to be very important by the content evaluation team.”

Mr Gibbens added “We are very much looking forward to developing our
arrangement with the WHO and MyiLibrary over time and as the collection of
publications increases we hope to have an input into how this content is
organised and disseminated to an even wider audience”

Dr Hooman Momen, Co-ordinator of WHO Press, comments “The NHS is one of the
world's leading health care organizations and we are delighted to have
partnered with them to allow easy access to our publications to such a wide
and important audience.  We look forward to working with the NHS to help
take the WHO message to the wider world, and to help increase knowledge and
education - thus contributing to improving health in society."

Linda Vendryes, President of MyiLibrary added “We are delighted to have
brought the WHO e-library to the NHS and we consider our work with the WHO
and the NHS to be one of the most important contributions we have yet made
to the dissemination of Inter Governmental Organization publications. We
look forward to working with both the NHS and the WHO in expanding this
collection and to promoting this valuable and important resource to such a
large, influential and important audience”




Notes for Editors


About the National Core Content Collection
The National Core Content Collection is an electronic collection of
Bibliographic Databases, Electronic Journals, and Electronic books for the
NHS. It also includes a Medical Images database and open access publishing
agreement.  The project was established and funded by the NHS workforce
Development Confederations in 2003, with a budget of over £4.8 million
pounds for the first three years.

For more information about the National Core Content collection please
contact Scott Gibbens, Project Manager, Octavia House, Interchange Business
Park, Bostock’s Lane, Sandiacre, Nottingham, NG10 5QG.

Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 0115 968 4445



About The World Health Organization
WHO was founded in 1948 as a specialised agency of the United Nations.
WHO’s mission is to "promote and protect the health of all peoples.” WHO's
constitution defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental and
social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."  WHO
publishes books and reports covering a vast array of topics related to
health, including global public health, infectious and non-communicable
diseases, mental health, environmental issues, education and training,
emergencies and disasters, epidemics and epidemiology, health systems,
pharmaceuticals and biological substances, nutrition, gender, and human
rights.

For more information please contact:
Ian Coltart, Department of Knowledge Management,
World Health Organization, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland

Tel:  +41 22 7912822
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: www.who.int



About MyiLibrary
MyLibrary is one of the worlds leading e-content hosting platforms with
nearly 2 million patrons regularly accessing some of the most up to date
and authoritative content available today. Collections available include
output from many of the most important Inter Governmental Organizations as
well as from some of the world's largest Science Technical and Medical
Publishers such as Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Elsevier and Oxford
University Press.
MyiLibrary, through its global network of distributors, offers direct
access to thousands of potential customers throughout the world, and works
closely with commercial and non-commercial publishers to aid in the
electronic dissemination of e-material, be that databases, journals or
books.

For more information please contact:
Linda Vendryes President – MyiLibrary

Tel: +44 (0) 1425 471160
Email:  [log in to unmask]
Web: www.myilibrary.com