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2020 Integris Medical Library Resources Review: Summary

Review and evaluation of medical library electronic products for 2020

High Alerts

Actions that have Effected Library Resources

  • The medical library is moving from an IT cost center to a corporate cost center - reductions needed!
  • Journal shelving has been reconfigured - reorganize and re-home a majority of physical journal content
  • Browzine has been discontinued
  • Statref has been discontinued

Renewal Calender
Click on product name to go directly to tab containing contact information

Jan.1, 2021 - Wiley & other single Journal Subscriptions June 30, 2021 - ClinicalKey  July 1, 2021 - CINAHL Complete
June 1, 2021 - UpToDate July 1, 2021 - EBSCO Discovery August 1, 2020 - CyberTools 
June 1, 2021 - Dynamic Health  July 1, 2021 - LibGuides  September 16, 2020 - New England Journal of Medicine
June 1, 2021 - OVID Databases July 1, 2021 - AccessEmergencyMedicine Dec. 2020 - Lexicomp
June 17, 2021 - R2 eBooks July 1, 2021 - PERC/Rehab Ref Dec. 2020 - OVID Journals

Consortium Products:                                                                                                                     EBSCO Products:
OVID,     Cinahl Complete       AccessEmergencyMedicine                                                               PERC/Rehab Ref,      Cinahl Complete,     EBSCO Discovery

 

Library Patron Resources

Product Vender Price

EBSCO Package, Patient Education Reference Center (PERC) with EPIC Integration, Rehabilitation Reference Center

EBSCO $65,736
EBSCO Full Text & Print Journal Subscriptions EBSCO $7,485
EBSCO Wiley Collection Full Text & Print Journal Subscriptions EBSCO $22,729
EBSCO Discovery (Journal linking and federated search engine) EBSCO $11,500 (note FTF under "Librarian Tools" has been separated out from this but it is actually a combined product costing $23,000)
ClinicalKey eBooks & eJournals Elsevier $116,066
AccessEmergencyMedicine eBooks & other tools McGraw-Hill $27,741
CINAHL Complete Database - Nursing resources EBSCO $28,366
OVID Technologies (Network Licensing Fee) OVID $24,902
OVID Medline Database OVID $2,865
OVID Evidence Based Medicine review Database OVID $15,243
OVID Health and Psychological Instruments OVID $2,151
OVID Allied and Complementary Medicine OVID $3,009
OVID Nursing eJournals OVID $14,674
OVID Lippincott Wolters & Wilkins Total Access Collection (Full Text eJournals) OVID $106,720
OVID Core Biomedical eJournals (Full Text eJournals) OVID $19,636
OVID Core II eJournals (Fulll Text eJournals) OVID $15,594
OVID Core III eJournals (Full Text eJournals) OVID $19,409
OVID Emcare (Specialty Nursing Full Text eJournals) OVID $2,835
OVID Journal of the American Medical Association Collection OVID $13,817
OVID Joanna Briggs Institute Complete Database OVID $13,910
OVID Nursing Database (Nursing Journal Search) OVID $1,998
OVID eBooks OVID $6,676
CyberTools (Online Public Access Catalog & Library Cataloging System) CyberTools $4,400
R2 (Rittenhouse eBooks) Rittenhouse $400
New England Journal of Medicine eJournal Subscription Massachusetts Medical Society $12,534
AORN Guidelines (eBooks) AORN $500

 

Tools

Tools used by Librarians

Product Vender Price
 EBSCO EBSCO Discovery (Federated Searching)  EBSCO $23,000
Docline/QuickDoc (Interlibrary loan management tool)   $1,400
LibGuides (Library website)   $1,352

Company Tools

Product Vender Price
UpToDate UpToDate $265,875
Lexi-Comp Wolters Kluwer $165,039
HealthStream (with Dynamic Health & Nursing Reference Center) HealthStream $98,938

May - American Stroke Awareness Month

Cumulative cost of all library products

Library Resources and Tools: $581,322 (approximate)

Hospital Resources and Tools:  $529,852 (approximate)

Total: $1,111,174

Ideas to cut costs

For Next Renewal Period

  • Decrease size of resources
    • Scale back some resources to a less robust level (CINAHL Complete to CINAHL Full Text)
    • Trim packages from aggregators (Ovid for example)
    • Rework single journal subscriptions
  • Drop some resources all together

Items cut previously

  • Medlink Neurology ($2,550.00)
  • AccessMedicine
  • Single Journal Subscriptions
  • Browzine
  • Stat!Ref

April - National Occupational Therapy Month and Donate Life Month

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