In March 2009, 5 academic health science centres (AHSC) were officically formed and recognised by the Government, these are partnerships between a university and NHS Trust with the aim to improve the quality of health services by bringing research, educaton and patient care closer together. AHSCs include :
Cambridge University Health Partners
Imperial College AHSC
King's Health Partners
Manchester AHSC
UCL Partners
JISC Collections, the UK academic community e-content procurement service, major STM publishers and database suppliers have agreed on a 1-year pilot programme that will allow the univeristies at the AHSCs to extend access to their subscribed content to their partner NHS organisations. Publishers include Elsevier, Nature, Springer, Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer Health have granted extended access at no additional cost for 2011.
Works are underway to link the resources to Athens, once activated, they will be available through MyAthens. The project will end on 31 December 2011.
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