Group Purchasing and Resource Sharing
The Michigan Health Sciences Libraries
Association, in collaboration with the Michigan Library
Consortium, identifies and negotiates a variety of group
purchases for member libraries. Included below are a
few of those cost-saving products that may be of special
interest to those in health sciences libraries. Additional
group purchase discount pricing on other electronic
products and services for libraries may be found at
MLC
Databases and eContent. Participation in MHSLA
and/or MLC discount pricing offers may require MHSLA
or MLC membership. Join
MHSLA now!
PLEASE NOTE:
Although MHSLA strives to provide equal services to
all of its Members, certain Members may be ineligible
for certain services due to geographic or other restrictions
imposed by vendors.
NLM Duplicates Program
The MHSLA Resource Sharing Committee has been
collecting books from the National Library of Medicine's
Duplicates Program to distribute to interested MHSLA
Members. The Committee recently received another shipment
of free books. The list of titles is available here:
http://www.mhsla.org/members/purchasing/8-09NLMDupsList.doc.
These books are available to your libraries free of
charge - you don't even have to pay for shipping!
Please review the book list to see if any of these titles
would benefit your library. If you're interested in
receiving any of these books, please submit the following
in an email to Heidi Schroeder (hschroed@msu.edu): title(s)
of requested book(s), your library's name and address,
and the person in your library who should receive the
books. Titles will be reserved on a first come, first
served basis, although slight discretion may be used
to distribute books as fairly and evenly as possible.
If you request a title that has already been selected
by another MHSLA member, you will be contacted by phone
or e-mail. The deadline for requesting books is January 10th, 2008. Requested titles will be shipped as soon
as possible after the deadline.
If you have any questions about this program, please
contact the Resource Sharing Committee Chair, Heidi
Schroeder.
2008 MHSLA DOCLINE Group Survey Results
As part of the MHSLA Resource Sharing Committee's charge to "collect...data pertinent to resource sharing activity”,
the committee developed a short survey designed to assess libraries’ satisfaction and use of the MHSLA DOCLINE Group. The survey
was created using SurveyMonkey and contained 11 questions. The MHSLA DOCLINE Group Survey was emailed to the sixty-nine contacts
listed in the MHSLA DOCLINE Group on July 23rd, 2008.
To see detailed results of the 2008 MHSLA DOCLINE Group Survey, please view this PDF.
If you have any questions about the MHSLA DOCLINE Group or Survey, please
contact the Resource Sharing Committee Chair, Heidi
Schroeder.
Natural Standard Offers Group Pricing!
The MHSLA Group Purchasing Committee has negotiated
with Natural
Standard consortial pricing for MHSLA Members. A
Natural Standard informational
flyer and details
of the offer are now available for MHSLA Members
to consider. Please direct your questions to Jeff
Sprung, Natural Standard's sales representative.
OVID Technologies, Inc.
There are several discounted offers priced exclusively for MHSLA Members from OVID Technologies, Inc.
Details of all of these packages may be directed to the OVID sales representative for Michigan,
Robert Morrisey.
NEW!
Springer Clinical Medicine Collection (CMC).
The MHSLA Group Purchasing Committee has negotiated
group pricing for Springer Clinical Medicine Collection
(CMC). Springer has compiled a collection of 286 clinical
medicine journals all of which are indexed in MEDLINE.
The present offer is for online access via SpringerLink.
Archival access is from 1997 to the present. Pricing
is based upon current subscription level and hospital
bed size.
This offer is open to all MHSLA hospital libraries
regardless of geography.
Read details of the Springer
Proposal
Springer CMC contract license template
Review the title
list of the Springer CMC (sorted alphabetically)
title
list of the Springer CMC (sorted by number of MEDLINE
citations)
title list of the Springer CMC (unique highlighted in red)
Questions regarding this offer should be directed to:
Judith Beneat
Corporate Account Manager
233 Spring Street
New York, NY 10013
judith.beneat@springer.com
Tel - 212-460-1544
Fax - 212-460-1518
Access Medicine Group Purchase
Now Available!
The Michigan Library Consortium and MHSLA is
now offering consortial pricing for McGraw-Hill's
AccessMedicine. More libraries that join the better
the price and the more concurrent users to share.
To sign on or for more information contact:
Diana Mitchell - mitcheld@mlcnet.org
Cooperative Purchasing Manager
Michigan Library Consortium
1407 Rensen Street, Suite 1
Lansing, MI 48910
PH: 800-530-9019 Ex: 112
Fax: 517-394-2096
STAT!Ref Group Purchase
STAT!Ref
Renewal status/pricing (as of March 2007)
STAT!Ref
Links for MHSLA group purchase participants
List
of institutions participating in the STAT!Ref purchase
STAT!Ref
contacts
Ovid Proposal Book Collections (ongoing)
This is a document
containing book collections for the MHSLA group.
One is a new nursing collection and the other is the
same offering of medical books as in previous years. Details of these packages may be directed to the OVID sales representative for Michigan,
Robert Morrisey.
Ovid Lippincott Clinical Choice
Jumpstart Links
Excel
spreadsheet
Web
page
Ovid Lippincott Clinical Choice
2004 Statistics
Excel
spreadsheet. Updated August 2004.
MISHULS Survey Results (2009)
Here are the results from the 2009 MISHULS Survey.
MISHULS
The Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Union
List of Serials. The National Library of Medicine's
DOCLINE and SERHOLD programs have made routine interlibrary
loan requesting faster and easier than ever. However,
many libraries experience situations where manual handling
is required. Whether the issue is equipment failure,
Internet server malfunction or a patient-care emergency,
having a print listing of library holdings can be a
life saver. For those occasions, MHSLA offers MISHULS.
Click here
to access MISHULS.
Interlibrary Loan Statistics
This
document contains statistics for MHSLA institutions
in 2002.
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