The Health Sciences Consortium (HSC) is a nonprofit publishing cooperative founded in 1971 and dedicated to sharing instructional materials in the health sciences. The Consortium has grown from twelve founding members to nearly 400 institutions representing more than 1,000 schools, hospitals, and other institutions around the world. Anyone can purchase from the Consortium’s library of over 700 videotape and computer-based instructional programs. Institutions that become members receive a 25% discount on every purchase. Membership is usually initiated by health sciences-related faculty or administrators, librarians or learning resource center directors, staff development coordinators, curriculum coordinators, etc. Only one membership per institution is required for all schools and affiliated teaching hospitals to purchase at the discount.