Pubmed Central Canada NIH - As a further means of achieving open access to research, a number of the major publishers, such as Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Sage, Blackwell, and Taylor and Francis, have author self-archiving policies in place that permit authors to post the final drafts of the work published in their journals to a personal website or a libraries’ institutional repositories.6 Some funding agencies are now mandating this archiving of work they underwrite, most notably, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, with an annual budget of $28 billion, leading to roughly 80,000 articles, now requires any work published as a result of its funding to be made publicly available in PubMed Central 12 months after it appears in a journal (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/index.htm).
Every American and Canadian college of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine or public health is required to have a health or medical library to support the curricular needs of the program or school.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/index-eng.php Standards for Hospital Libraries http://www.hls.mlanet.org/otherresources/standards.html