Purchasing online journal access for a hospital medical library: how to identify value in commercially available products
Subscription service renewal time is around the corner in our library, so this offering from BioMedical Digital Libraries was quite welcome and timely.
I recently got my hands on a copy of E-Journals: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Building, Managing, and Supporting Electronic Journal Collections (How-to-Do-It Manuals for Librarians), a weighty tome that I've just started to wade through after reading about it in the Journal of the Medical Library Association
Anyone have other reading suggestions for resources to help one manage online subscriptions in a cost-effective manner in a small library?
Like this post? Subscribe to the RSS feed!
July 14th, 2006 at 3:28 am
No ressources, but anecdotal evidence: Cost-effectiveness in a small library means for me to be effective with my own time. I’m the most costly factor in this game. I don’t see big cost differences between the different vendors incl. the publisher. Therefore to save time I would engage an journal aggregator like Ovid, Ebsco or Swets.