Proposed cancellation of ClinicalKey

May 6, 2016 Michele Charlton 5 Comments

Along with the other libraries in the Dalhousie University Libraries system, the W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library will have a significant collections budget shortfall for 2016-17. Reducing book purchases and spending endowment funds will help reduce the shortfall, but additional cancellations will be required.

We are in the process of cancelling ClinicalKey as our first step toward balancing the 2016-17 budget.

ClinicalKey, an Elsevier product, has two main components: journals and ebooks. This subscription cost more than $100,000 CAD in 2015/16 and was the second most expensive item on our budget.

The majority of journals included in ClinicalKey are duplicates of titles the University Libraries already subscribe to in another Elsevier package.

The ebooks portion of ClinicalKey is required to support the Health professions and Medical curricula is well used, and provides unlimited access to students. To date, the vendor has not been able to provide a model that would allow us to subscribe to just the ebook portion.

In order to support the curricula, a portion of the funds saved by cancelling the ClinicalKey subscription will be repurposed to purchase ebooks. Replacement of the required ebooks will be phased in over two budget years.

Over the next six weeks liaison librarians will review titles identified as most relevant to the curricula in consultation with faculty. The Resources team will then purchase replacement ebooks and, in a few cases, print books.

Although ClinicalKey is a large, well-known education resource for Medicine and the Health Professions, we must be good stewards of the Dalhousie Collections funds while also meeting our user needs. Due to the increased annual renewal cost, the duplication of journal content, and the unfavorable currency exchange rate, we are making this difficult choice. The contingency plan outlined here will fill in the collection gaps left by the absence of this product.

Deadline for comments regarding this decision: 5 pm Friday, May 13, 2016. Please send your comments to: Patrick Ellis or Ann Barrett at Kellogg.Library@Dal.Ca

Having trouble with electronic journal access?

June 1, 2015 Michele Charlton Leave a Comment

Last summer, the Dalhousie Libraries made changes to journal and database subscriptions in order to achieve a balanced collections budget. As a result, some subscriptions were cancelled. In the majority of cases, subscriptions were moved to a more economical delivery format, or an Open Access option was available. In a few cases duplicated content was dropped.

When a subscription for an electronic journal expires, the link is removed from the catalogue if we no longer have access to any of the content. In some instances, our access to older content that has been paid for over the life of the subscription will remain, though we will not be able access more recent content.

If you are having trouble accessing a journal that was available in the recent past or has been bookmarked or accessed through a Table of Contents alerting service, please consult the Novanet catalogue or the eJournals list. This will confirm whether or not we still have an active subscription. If the journal is still part of an active subscription, please report the problem to Library.Eresources@Dal.ca.

If you require content from a journal that we no longer subscribe to, you can place a request for specific articles through Document Delivery: https://libraries.dal.ca/locations_services/services/document_deliveryservices.html

Lists of changed subscriptions are posted on the Dalhousie Libraries collections page: (http://libraries.dal.ca/collection.html)
If you are unable to confirm that the journal you need was cancelled and require assistance resolving an access problem, please contact:Library.Eresources@Dal.Ca

Journal of the American Heart Association

March 1, 2012 Tim Ruggles Leave a Comment

The American Heart Association has begun publishing a new journal called Journal of the American Heart Association (ISSN 2047-9980). This is an open access, peer reviewed journal which will be widley indexed.
For more information and to access JAHA go to

http://jaha.ahajournals.org/

Open Access Week 2011

October 21, 2011 Tina Usmiani Leave a Comment

Around the globe organizations are celebrating Open Access Week. What is open access and why is it worth celebrating? Here are some resources to answer your questions.

A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access
Peter Suber lays it all out for you.

Open Access Subject Guide
Information about open access, including publisher policies, self-archiving and repositories

The Libraries offer the DalSpace repository as a way for you to provide open access to your research.

http://vimeo.com/29159267

BioMed Central is a Science, Technology and Medicine publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model, and Dalhousie Libraries have enabled faculty to publish in these journals at a reduced cost.

Directory of Open Access Journals
Categorized, searchable links to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

BioMed Central Membership for Dal Authors

April 6, 2011 Tim Ruggles Leave a Comment

BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher based on the open access publishing model. The Dalhousie University Libraries has recently become a “Supporting Member” in BioMed Central. For Dal authors who wish to publish in BioMed Central or SpringerOpen journals, this membership allows for a reduction of 15% on the article processing charges (amounting to savings of about $250-$300 per article). Any article submitted from a Dalhousie IP will automatically be provided with the membership reduced rate.

Visit Dalhousie’s BioMed Central member repository.

Future Science Group E-journals Acquired

March 16, 2011 Tim Ruggles Leave a Comment

The Kellogg Library has initiated a one year subscription to the Future Science Group family of ejournals, which is composed of three collections:

Please take a look and send any comments to Patrick Ellis (Patrick.Ellis@dal.ca)

American Archival Periodicals and Monographs

February 17, 2011 Tina Usmiani Leave a Comment

We’re offering you access to two archival collections from EBSCO, on a trial basis until mid-April. Check them out and let us know what you think!

American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection

EBSCO has partnered with the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) to provide digital access to a comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877. In total, more than 6,500 periodicals are available.

Series 1 (1691-1820)

Series 2 (1821-1837)

Series 3 (1838-1852)

American Theological Library Association Historical Monographs Collection

The ATLA Historical Monographs Collection consists of two Series that contain more than 29,000 titles focused on religion and theology. In its entirety, the collection contains over 10 million pages, representing a core collection for colleges and universities with programs in history, theology, religion, sociology, political science and other disciplines.

Series 1, consisting of titles from the 13th Century through 1893

Series 2, consisting of titles published from 1894 through 1923

Archives for journals