Happy New Year to All!

Journal Deselection

The task grows more difficult each year as both electronic and print subscription costs continue to rise.  Journal inflation, including access to abstracting and indexing services, is running between 5% and 10% annually. During the period from 2004-2008, Academic health sciences libraries averaged a journal subscription price increase of 49%.  This trend shows no sign of abating.  According to Library Journal, prices of subscription-based journals increased nine to ten percent in 2008, exacerbated by an extremely weak dollar.  Given the continuing slide of the dollar, increases in 2009 are expected to approach ten percent overall.

Librarians and members of the Health Sciences Library Committee have been working for several weeks preparing a list of subscriptions that might be canceled.  They have looked at actual use, how often a journal is cited by Loyola authors, cost per use, overall cost, interlibrary loan availability, and how each title supports our clinical, research and teaching missions.

One bright spot in this scenario is that some title duplication exists among our primary aggregators (OVID, EBSCOhost, and ScienceDirect) due to publishing mergers this past year that allow us to cancel access duplication without compromising direct user access to important titles.   Reducing online access duplications will save nearly $70,000.  Still, the Health Sciences Library will need to cancel direct access to 49, mostly print subscriptions, which will reduce our subscription costs by an additional $35,000.

Just a reminder, all articles are available through interlibrary loan.  Patient care requests are filled within a few hours and most requests are filled within 24-48 hours.

The following journals have been deselected.

Acta Cytologica
Advanced Technology Libraries
Advances in Pediatrics
Advances in Surgery
American Journal of Orthopedics
American Journal of Perinatology
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care
Annals of Vascular Surgery
Anticancer Research
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology
Coronary Artery Disease
Critical Reviews in Eukaryotic Gene Expression
Current Opinion in Ophthalmology
Current Opinion in Pediatrics
Epidemiology
European Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Foot & Ankle International
Hepato-Gasteroenterology
International Surgery
Journal of Drugs in Dermatology
Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
Journal of Hypertension
Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma
Journal of Pediatric Hematology Oncology
Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery
Journal of Thoracic Imaging
Journal of Trauma Nursing
Journal of Web Librarianship
Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie
Linacre Quarterly
Lymphology
Mayo Clinic Health Letter
Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
Molecular Reproduction & Development
Neurology Alert
Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
ORL: Journal for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
ORL-Head and Neck Nursing
Orthopaedic Nursing
Pancreas
Pediatric Research
Plastic Surgical Nursing
Respiratory Care
Retina
Seminars in Neurology
Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis
Southern Medical Journal
Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine

Winter Holiday Hours

HAPPY HOLIDAYS From the LIBRARY STAFF!

Holiday Hours for the Library are:

Henry Stewart Talks

New records have been added to the library catalog for the Henry Stewart talks.  These records are much improved, conforming to library standards and including medical subject headings so that they can be located by topic.

As of October 2008, the collection had 780 talks. A talk usually has one speaker, however there are 40 or so talks with 2-6 speakers. Approximately one series is added per month, and as each series contains roughly 20 talks, the number of speakers correspondingly increases by 20 or so a month.

Recently added series include The Legacy of Drosophila Genetics and The Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Cerebrovascular Disease : a prioritized approach. Upcoming series include Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease and Latest Thinking in Efficacy and Toxicity in Cancer Research. There is a Keep Me Updated button on the website if you wish to receive updates on newly added series.