Abstract
Question: What to do when a major database ceases publication?Setting: An urban, academic health sciences library with four campuses serves a university health sciences system, a college of medicine, and five other health sciences colleges.Methods: Usage statistics of each e-book title in the resource were carefully analyzed. Purchase decisions were made based on the assessment of usage.Results: Sustainable resources were acquired from other vendors, with perpetual access for library users.Conclusion: This systematic process of finding alternative resources is an example of librarians’ persistence in acquiring perpetual electronic resources when a major resource is cancelled.
Highlights
Setting: An urban, academic health sciences library with four campuses serves a university health sciences system, a college of medicine, and five other health sciences colleges
Sustainable resources were acquired from other vendors, with perpetual access for library users
To provide electronic resources to patrons, libraries have to pay a substantial amount of money to maintain the resources from different packages offered by vendors
Summary
Setting: An urban, academic health sciences library with four campuses serves a university health sciences system, a college of medicine, and five other health sciences colleges. Results: Sustainable resources were acquired from other vendors, with perpetual access for library users. The goal was to make sure that all the e-book titles from the discontinued database are available in the library collection so that users would have perpetual access without any interruption. To provide continuous access to the titles from the discontinued resource, the author began an analysis of the e-books available in this resource in July 2014.
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