Toni Janik MDMLG April 22, 2004

Why Medical Digital Libraries?  24 hour access to collection  Ability to access library from home, office, patient bedside - not just within the walls of the library  Less space required  Easier to search  Most current edition always available  Growing amount of medical information and need to provide the best available

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Becomes….. this

How  Review of current issues, products and trends using  Medline  Publisher and Vendor web sites and conference displays  Professional library journals  Web search using a variety of search engines including Google, Metacrawler, and Altavista.  Vendor trials of a variety of digital products

Medical Digital Hospital Libraries  Botsford Botsford  Ottawa Ottawa  Allen & Betty Taylor Library - UWO Allen & Betty Taylor Library - UWO

Issues  Accessibility & Connectivity – IP, passwords, firewalls…  Collection Development  Licensing  Managing Complexity  Multi-sited Organizations, Partnerships & Consortiums

Accessibility  Connectivity – IP, passwords, firewalls…  User Group - Who….  Physicians  Nurses  Allied Health Care Staff  Administration  Students from local colleges, universities?  Medical students from UWO?  Patients, family members  General public?...

Collection Development  Policy  All digital or combination of print and digital ?  Where to begin?  Journal subscriptions that include an online edition  Journals indexed in Medline or CINAHL  Fulltext journals bundled with databases currently subscribed to. ie. EbscoMedEbscoMed  Fulltext books that are on the “Brandon and Hill recommended list for small libraries”.  Consortium packages that are affordable and meet our collection and users needs. (MHSLA, MLC, SOHLIN)

Collection Development cont’d  Inclusion of trial packages of books and journals for feedback from user group  Selection of full text packages that reflect information needs of health care team  Increased database selections that include all/selected fulltext i.e.. Quicklaw, IPAB, E-Psyche...

Budget  Digital collections are often priced higher than their paper counter parts.  Per year costs for digital compared to per edition costs for paper  Typical journal costs rise % per year and library budgets are fixed or decreasing  Ongoing technical hardware and software costs to maintain access  Increased or decreased Interlibrary Loan costs due to growing digital collections?

Licensing  Lack of Standardization  Same product - different deals ?  Often changes during the license period  Publisher, third party vendor, direct  Not all e-products are available through vendors only directly from publisher sites.

Licensing Cont’d  Cost – per employee, annual patient admissions, concurrent user, per computer station  Who does the negotiating?  Librarian  Computer services (IS) department  Hospital lawyers

Managing Complexity  The Complexity  of Systems  of Resources  of Users  Users  Archive availability  ILL’s not always allowed by publisher

Systems  CD-ROM  Intranet vs. Internet  Servers  Hospital server  Library server  Vendor server  Publisher server  Platform changes, migration,...

Resources  Changing url’s  Authentication  Publisher / vendor changes  Devine Ebsco  Who offers what your users want?  Is what you want available digitally  Bundles  Embargoes

Users  Define who are your library’s users  What are the information needs of the various user groups  Information Sources  Access Points  Technological Expertise  What percentage of the collection’s budget will be allocated to each group

Multi-sited Organizations, Partnerships & Consortiums  Benefits  Preferred pricing  ILL within group  Cooperative training  Resident “experts”  Users become familiar with common interface  Disadvantages  Everyone gets the same package  Common renewal date  Tied to each other’s budgets  Must all choose IP or password access  Concurrency is for all ~ not by institution

Our Collection  E - Books  Harrison’s Internal Medicine Harrison’s Internal Medicine  Statref! (MHSLA) Statref!  LWW Ovid LWW Ovid E - Journals  New England Journal of Medicine and others through publisher sites New England Journal of Medicine  AtoZ  Proquest Nursing and Medical  OVID Journals  Science Direct  JAMA (through EbscoMed) JAMA

Access Points to E-Products  Bookmarks  EbscoMed fulltext links from databases EbscoMed  Publisher site for individual titles  Directed study web site  Proquest site for Medical/Nursing Proquest site for Medical/Nursing  Science Direct Science Direct  Ovid LWW site Ovid LWW site  AtoZ AtoZ  OPAC – EOSi E-GLAS OPAC – EOSi E-GLAS  HDGH Library intranet site HDGH Library intranet site

Where to go next...  Create a intranet site for all our digital products – under construction  Create library forms on our web site for our patrons to use for Reference and Interlibrary Loan  Ongoing trials for e-products for our health sciences collection

Suggestions, Comments …  Will the digital library of tomorrow meet your information needs?