E-Journals at Botsford General Hospital

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E-Journals atBotsford General Hospital

• Deborah Adams
• Director, Library Internet Services
• Sept. 20, 2001

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Botsford Library

• 336-bed teaching hospital with 17 residency
  programs
• 5.5 FTE in Library Internet Services
• Services
• Medical Library
• Consumer Health Library
• Computer Lab
• Audiovisual Services
• Intranet and Internet websites
• 30 e-journals in 1999
• 110 print and 236 e-journals at present

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Selection

• Print with Online Access
• Aggregators
• OVID
• MD Consult
• Health Reference Center

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Acquisition

• Budget issues
• Online registration with publishers
• Purchase licenses from aggregators

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Licensing

• Institutional access
• Network
• Workstation
• ILL issues

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Method of Access

• IP authentication
• ID and password
• URL with imbedded ID and password
• Script from vendor
• Hyperlink with imbedded HTML code
• User Authentication (i.e. EZproxy)

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Informing the User

• Intranet/Internet Journal List
• OVID holdings
• Imagine Library Catalog
• Printed list posted in library

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Marketing

• Newsletters
• Memos
• Email
• Intranet
• Orientation

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Challenges

• Budget
• Need for PC education for end users
• Paper to electronic procedural changes for end
  user
• Creation of procedures for cataloging and journal
  lists
• HTML vs. pdf articles
• Missing issues/articles/journal features
• Time from being published to electronic
• Publisher access changes (i.e. NEJM)

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Positive Outcomes

• Fewer print to check in or claim
• Less shelving/space needed
• Fewer journals to shelve
• Issues and articles there when needed (usually)
• Fewer ILLs (20 less) or photocopies (instant
  gratification)
• Access from home or office (outside Library)
• Email articles to users or provide link

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Questions?