NJHA Library & Links
Healthcare Journals & Serials
The New Jersey Hospital Association Library offers healthcare professionals, librarians and researchers access to a library collection of print and online healthcare management journals and as well as a list of links to electronic journals or other directories to free electronic journals. Go to our journal lists below, read the introduction to the collection, indexes for research, how to access, services offered and union list participation.
Journals & Serial Lists
Introduction & Indexes/Research
Ours is the most comprehensive collection of periodical literature in New Jersey covering the administrative and management aspects of hospitals, healthcare facilities and the delivery of healthcare. This collection includes journals, newsletters, newspapers and monographic series. Generally, titles are indexed in the
MEDLINE® bibliographic database of the
National Library of Medicine. Researchers are encouraged to access healthcare management literature via
PubMed® a broader database system, including MEDLINE. We have all of the newsletters produced by the New Jersey Hospital Association or affiliates and those issued by the American Hospital Association. In general, titles of scholarly and research value are maintained for twenty-five years or more. Titles have local, state and regional emphasis and all are English language. Most titles are published in the U.S.
Access & Journal Services
For members and other library patrons, access to the journal collection is available in two ways, through
interlibrary loan by your local library, or
on-site access. Please contact your hospital, organizational or
public library for information about their interlibrary loan services.
Union List Participation
For Librarians, titles and holdings are reported to several "union lists", etc. to facilitate interlibrary loan and research. Other databases index some of these titles. Our Union Lists and journal databases are as follows for interlibrary loan purposes.
Other Sources
Many other Web lists provide access to health journals and include health care management titles, some are more current or comprehensive than others. The following are authoritative and useful references.
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- BioMed Central
(All research articles published by BioMed Central are archived without delay in PubMed Central, and are also included in PubMed) ·
- DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
(Lund University Libraries, Sweden, host and supported by OSI, Open Society Institute and SPARC, The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. This service provides access to quality controlled 'open access journals and aims to comprehensively cover those that are scientific or scholarly in any subject or language. 'Open access journals' defined: uses a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access.)
- Journal Cost-Effectiveness
From Ted Bergstrom, professor of economics, University of California-Santa Barbara, and Preston McAfee, professor of business, economics and management, California Institute of Technology-Pasadena. Helpful to medical librarians for budgeting and collection development. This resource provides librarians a benchmark and measure of price per article, price per citation, and rank (on these prices) relative to other journals in the field.
- National Library of Medicine PubMed Central and Free Biomedical Literature Resources
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