HEAL is a digital library of teaching resources for health sciences education. It is designed to facilitate the sharing of a wide variety of high-quality, freely available multimedia resources that are currently located on the HEAL server and across many remote servers. HEAL also functions as a publishing venue, as authors may submit high-quality multimedia resources for review and publication within HEAL. For more information about HEAL's mission and background, see the HEAL brochure (PDF file 119K).

• Collections
  Multimedia teaching resources in the health sciences in the Review Pending Collection, the HEAL Reviewed Collection, and our Affiliate Collections
  
  
• Peer Review of Digital Scholarship
  Academic recognition through a rigorous peer review process of educational resources that have been submitted by authors
  
  
• HEAL Metadata Schema
  A customized, comprehensive set of cataloging standards, based on the Educause Instructional Management Systems (IMS) standard, extended to include additional health sciences-related elements
  
  
• HEAL Application
  HEAL's custom web-based, n-tiered application for searching, browsing, downloading, and submitting resources, with bridges to a federation of affiliate partner databases