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N.J. Medical Librarians' Resources from NJHA
Health Sciences Libraries Group Licensing Initiative
Revised: May 12, 2009
Contents:
Sixth Year of Group Licensing a Success; Year Seven Underway Introduction:
The Group Licensing Initiative for New Jersey medical libraries is now in its seventh year. Beginning July 1, this service expanded and was enhanced for 2009-2010 to include thousands of full-text electronic journals, online books, bibliographic databases and point-of-care resources and tools from six vendors: Ovid Technologies, EBSCO Information Services, McGraw Hill's
AccessMedicine and AccessSurgery, Teton Data System's
STAT!Ref, New England Journal of Medicine's site licensing and the publishers British Medical Journal and LexisNexis. Participants realize a savings of 10 to 80 percent.
More than seventy nonprofit hospital and health sciences libraries are currently participating from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware consortia. The four Pennsylvania library consortia include
DEVIC Delaware Valley Information Consortium,
CPHSLA Central Pennsylvania Health Sciences Library Association, HILNNEP Health Information Libraries Network of Northeast Pennsylvania and the CHL Cooperating Hospital Libraries in Lancaster. Delaware includes
DelMIRA, the Delaware Medical Information Resource Alliance administered by the
Delaware Academy of Medicine.
This initiative is offered by the
Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey and led by the
NJHA Library and the
University Libraries of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Licensing of Ovid resources, New England Journal of Medicine, BMJ and Lexis are available throughout the year at a pro-rated basis. All other licenses close on May 29 for this license term, July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010. Information for the next licensing period will be available in March of 2010.
More than 70 libraries or facilities currently participate as follows. (Unless otherwise indicated, all hospitals are in New Jersey.)- AI duPont Hospital for Children, DE
- Atlantic Health System - Morristown Memorial Hospital
- Atlantic Health System – Overlook Hospital
- Bayhealth Medical Center (includes Kent General Hospital and Milford Memorial Hospital), DE
- Bayshore Community Hospital
- Beebe Medical Center, DE
- Capital Health System - Mercer Campus
- Capital Health System – Fuld Campus
- CentraState Medical Center
- Chambersburg Hospital, PA
- Chestnut Hill Hospital, PA
- Children's Specialized Hospital
- Chilton Memorial Hospital
- Christiana Care Health System – Christiana Hospital, DE
- Christiana Care Health System – Wilmington Hospital, DE
- Clara Maas Medical Center
- Community Medical Center
- Deborah Heart & Lung
- Delaware Academy of Medicine, DE
- Delaware Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, DE
- DPH Division of Public Health, DE
- Doylestown Hospital, Doylestown, PA
- Easton Hospital, PA
- ECRI, Plymouth Meeting, PA
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, PA
- Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
- Hackensack University Medical Center
- Hackettstown Regional Medical Center
- Hazelton General Hospital, PA
- Holy Name Hospital
- Hunterdon Medical Center
- JFK Medical Center
- Kessler Med. Rehab. Res. & Ed. Corp (KMRREC)
- Lancaster General Hospital, PA
- Liberty Health - Jersey City Medical Center
- Memorial Medical Center – Conemaugh Health System, PA
- Mercy Hospital, PA
- Meridian - Jersey Shore University Hospital
- Meridian - Ocean Medical Center
- Meridian - Riverview Medical Center
- Monmouth Medical Center
- Moses Taylor Hospital, PA
- The Mountainside Hospital (The Merit Health System, LLC)
- Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, DE
- New Jersey Hospital Association
- Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
- Newton Memorial Hospital
- Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center
- Pinnacle Health System, PA
- Princeton Healthcare System
- Raritan Bay Medical Center
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Rahway
- Saint Barnabas Medical Center
- Saint Clare's Hospital
- St. Mary Medical Center, PA
- St. Francis Medical Center
- St. Prancis Hospital, DE
- Saint Michael's Medical Center
- St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center
- Saint Peter's University Hospital
- Shore Memorial Hospital
- Somerset Medical Center
- Underwood Memorial Hospital
- The Valley Hospital
- Virtua Memorial Hospital of Burlington County (Mt. Holly)
- Virtua West Jersey Hospital - Berlin
- Virtua West Jersey Hospital - Marlton
- Virtua West Jersey Hospital - Voorhees
- Williamsport Hospital and Medical Center (Susquehanna Health), PA
- Wyoming Valley Health Care, PA
- York Hospital - Wellspan Health, PA
2009 Joint Group Licensing Committee Members: Michelle Volesko Brewer, chair,
New Jersey Hospital Association; Kerry O'Rourke, UMDNJ; Cathy Boss, Jersey Shore University Hospital; Jeannine Creazzo, Saint Peter's University Hospital; Robin Siegel, CentraState Healthcare System; Barbara S. Reich, Hackensack University Medical Center; Robert T. Mackes, Delaware Academy of Medicine; Sharon Hrabina, Pocono Medical Center and Allison Gross, ECRI Institute Headquarters.
Other Activities and Accomplishments of the Joint Group Licensing Committee:
Michelle Volesko Brewer. Presentation to the Research Committee of the Organization of Nurse Executives of New Jersey (ONE/NJ) titled "Nursing Research Resources of the Joint Group Licensing Initiative," New Jersey Hospital Association, Princeton, NJ, January 9, 2009.
- Michelle Volesko Brewer and Kerry O'Rourke gave a presentation titled "Group Licensing of Electronic Resources: Putting It Together," to the E-resources Planning Council of DelMIRA (Delaware Medical Information Resource Alliance) at Christiana Hospital, DE, March 30, 2007.
- Michelle Volesko Brewer and Kerry O'Rourke held a panel discussion, " Improving the Face of Library-Vendor Relationships: Revolutionizing Our Bonds" for the 2007 annual program of the Hospital Library Section (HLS) of the Medical Library Association, Philadelphia, PA, May 20, 2007. See the Library Vendor Relationships blog developed for this program.
- Michelle Volesko Brewer and Kerry O'Rourke gave a presentation titled "Group Licensing of Electronic Resources: Putting It Together," to the CHL - Cooperating Hospital Libraries, HILNNEP - Health Information Library Network of Northeastern Pennsylvania and CPHSLA – Central Pennsylvania Health Sciences Library Association at Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster PA., October 28, 2005.
- Michelle Volesko Brewer and Kerry O'Rourke gave a presentation "Group Purchasing of Electronic Resources: Discover the Value," to the DEVIC - Delaware Valley Information Consortium at Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, PA., May 7, 2004.
- Judy Cohn and Kerry O'Rourke presented a contributed paper at the MLA Annual Meeting May 4, 2003, San Diego, titled: "Virtual Academic Library Environment (VALE): Benefits and Outcomes of Participation in a Statewide Consortium for Licensing Electronic Resources."
- Michelle Volesko, Kerry O'Rourke and Judy Cohn presented a contributed poster, accepted for presentation at the Collaborations Partnerships and Solutions: The QUINTEssestial Conference, a joint meeting of: The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of MLA, The New York-New Jersey Chapter of MLA, the Philadelphia Regional Chapter of MLA, the Philadelphia Chapter of SLA and the Pittsburgh Regional Chapter of MLA on October 27, 2003, titled: "Cheaper by the Dozen: New Jersey's Statewide Group Licensing Initiative Blends Consortia Need, Cooperative Tradition and Purchasing Value."
- Judith Cohn, Kerry O'Rourke, Michelle Volesko co-authored "Transferring Group Licensing Skills From an Academic Consortial Model to a Statewide Association of Hospital Libraries," JERML (Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries) v. 1, issue 2, 2004.
Background:
The Joint Group Licensing Initiative for N.J. Health Sciences Libraries, an Task Force of the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey (HSLANJ) and led by the NJHA Library and the University Libraries of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey presented the first group licensing offer on March 19 2002 at the HSLANJ Annual Meeting.
The initiative initially used a survey to determine the interest level in joining a group licensing initiative that would be open to nonprofit health sciences libraries. A standing Committee of the Health Sciences Library Association serves as an advisory group providing expertise for both large and small hospital libraries and helps select resources for group licensing, coordinates vendor product trials and arranges for resource training.
For more information please contact Michelle Volesko Brewer, 609-275-4230,
webadmin@njha.com.