eAZy Browsing: Creation of a Health Sciences eJournals List
Presentation Type
Lightning Talk
Location
Montvale Event Center, Spokane, WA
Start Date
16-10-2018 11:30 AM
End Date
16-10-2018 12:30 PM
Description
The University of Washington Health Sciences Library was an early starter to providing online services and continues to be a heavily used resource for the UW health sciences community. In recent years, the University Libraries' transition to a consortial ILS and the rising costs of resources in the face of flat budgets culminated in the loss of our third-party-provided list of ejournals. Our users were directed to the listing of all UW ejournals. Users bemoaned this change. This talk describes the effort to re-instate a locally controlled list of ejournals most relevant to the health sciences. The process required cooperation of technical staff and draws upon lists of journals indexed in PubMed and EMBASE, and from our own previous list of ejournals. Now that the list has been generated, maintenance requires only a small amount of time per month and Excel skills. The core list of health sciences titles is available on github. Though not perfect, other libraries may find this core list of titles and ISSNs useful as a starting point in generating their own list of ejournals.
Recommended Citation
Rich, Joanne, "eAZy Browsing: Creation of a Health Sciences eJournals List" (2018). Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting. 10.
https://digitalcommons.providence.org/pncmla/2018/0tuesday/10
eAZy Browsing: Creation of a Health Sciences eJournals List
Montvale Event Center, Spokane, WA
The University of Washington Health Sciences Library was an early starter to providing online services and continues to be a heavily used resource for the UW health sciences community. In recent years, the University Libraries' transition to a consortial ILS and the rising costs of resources in the face of flat budgets culminated in the loss of our third-party-provided list of ejournals. Our users were directed to the listing of all UW ejournals. Users bemoaned this change. This talk describes the effort to re-instate a locally controlled list of ejournals most relevant to the health sciences. The process required cooperation of technical staff and draws upon lists of journals indexed in PubMed and EMBASE, and from our own previous list of ejournals. Now that the list has been generated, maintenance requires only a small amount of time per month and Excel skills. The core list of health sciences titles is available on github. Though not perfect, other libraries may find this core list of titles and ISSNs useful as a starting point in generating their own list of ejournals.
