Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries

Give your patrons access to the digital content they need Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries is an essential guide to the challenges of acquiring licensing and managing the electronic access and use of books and journals. Medical librarians working in a variety of settings including academic health centers hospital libraries and government health associations provide entry-level mid-career and experienced librarians with comprehensive information and advice on dealing with electronic resources. This invaluable resource examines a wide range of issues including collection development pricing open access licensing remote access statistics publisher liability and the Semantic Web. As healthcare professionals researchers educators and students rely more and more on digital content medical libraries spend more and more time dealing with the complexities surrounding the use of e-resources. Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries examines the issues they face everyday including the shift from print to electronic materials off-campus and cross-campus access usage statistics journal pricing open-access publishing licensing collection development and much more. Topics addressed in Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries include: how to negotiate consortial packages how to use an electronic resource management (ERM) system how to create a portal to share electronic resources how to consolidate costs and provide wide access how open access affects pricing how to establish and maintain access to licensed e-resources how to develop a combined e-journal Web page how off-campus students interact with a full-service document delivery option for electronic journals how to integrate e-resources into an online catalog how to apply emerging Semantic Web technologies to digital libraries and much more Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries is an invaluable professional guide for medical and academic librarians and a helpful classroom resource for faculty and students in library schools. . Language: English