HEAL Collection Expands
By Shona Dippie
HEAL Metadata Librarian/Cataloger
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library
University of Utah
sdippie@lib.med.utah.edu
and
Sandra McIntyre
HEAL Program Manager
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
smcintyre@mednet.ucla.edu
The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) collection grows to over 3200 items with the addition of hundreds of videos, interactive tutorials, animations, and other curricular resources including:
- Videos from the award-winning NeuroLogic Exam: An Anatomical Approach Web site created by Paul D. Larsen, M.D. and Suzanne S. Stensaas, Ph.D. are now available through HEAL.
- The well-known MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorials from the National Library of Medicine, designed and developed by the Patient Education Institute, recently became part of the federated HEAL collection.
- A number of animations created by the Knowledge Weavers (KW) project were also added to the HEAL collection. The animations include the renowned HyperHeart, which developed from collaboration between Donald K. Blumenthal, Ph.D. and the KW team; Derivation of the ElectroCardioGram; and Voluntary Control of the Facial Muscles among others.
- HEAL now also offers the original "They're Rich, You're Dead" anti-smoking program by Arthur E. Pitchenik, M.D. of the University of Miami Medical School.
HEAL's vision is to create the leading digital library relied upon by a worldwide community of teachers and learners to improve the effectiveness of health sciences education. HEAL's mission is to provide free digital materials of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners. HEAL promotes the preservation and exchange of useful educational assets while respecting ownership and privacy. We welcome additional partners to the HEAL community. The value of the HEAL digital library grows with each new resource that joins the HEAL "federation."
HEAL is a multi-institutional, collaborative project funded by the National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library initiative and the National Library of Medicine. Sharon Dennis, M.S., from the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah; Sebastian Uijtdehaage, Ph.D., from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; and Chris Candler, M.D., from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine are the co-directors of the project.
More information about the HEAL Project, as well as free access to the multimedia collections, is available at http://www.healcentral.org. We look forward to your feedback as we continue to improve this resource.