experiences from a national medical library
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ICOLC Stockholm, Tuesday 2nd October 2007. Experiences from a national medical library. Kjell Tjensvoll, Consortium Manager. Mission. To improve health care quality by providing free and easy access for health personnel to useful and reliable knowledge - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Experiences from anational medical library
ICOLC Stockholm, Tuesday 2nd October 2007
Kjell Tjensvoll, Consortium Manager
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Mission
To improve health care quality by providing free and easy access for health personnel to useful and reliable knowledge
Provide free access to medical informationresources for:– all Norwegian health personnel– students at medical colleges and universities
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Organisation
First deal with Ovid from 1st January 2005 Officially opened 6th June 2006 Seven employees Financed through public funds: owned by The
Directorate of Health and Social Services and the regional health trusts.
Hosted by The Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services – Organised as a publication/journal; editor in chief– Editor manage according to statutes– Independent of both owners and host
organisation
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Economy
Annual budget ca. EUR 5 mill (USD 7,2 mill)
Norway is a rich country– Are the libraries rich?
Publishers expect better prices
We get less content for the same amounts of money
VAT
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www.helsebiblioteket.nowww.helsebiblioteket.no
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Four access levels ...
Open Access– Linking to resources– Institutional repository– BioMed Central
National access– Recognition of national IP range (GeoIP)
Access for health personnel and students– Medical colleges– Universities
Access for health personnel
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Journals and databases
National access– BMJ (24 Journals), JAMA (and 9 archives), Annals of
Internal Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, Cochrane Library, Clinical Evidence
Access for health personnel and students– Five bibliographic databases
– AMED, CINAHL, EMBASE, Medline, PsycINFO
– ProQuest Medical Databases– Lippincott C100 (collaboration with universities)– PsycARTICLES ?
Access for health personnel– Norwegian Medical Handbook (NEL)
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National procurement
EU regulations; threshold values– USD 80 000 +, national tender– USD 180 000 +, international tender
Letter of the law is to tender for everything above the threshold values
Direct procurement– Only below USD 80 000
Exceptions– Specific titles/resources with no competitors
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Tender process – useful tools ...
Choose correct process– Open tender– Negotiations
Energy consuming process Very powerful
– dictate conditions– reservations disqualifies– vendors are subject to laws
and regulations Award criteria
– more complicated after 1.1.7– critical to do well
Contracts– standard contracts– tender documents appendix– additional appendix
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Current tender for journals and
databases Open competition; no negotiations Journal package– Content and cost
Databases, same, same but different ...– Unsatisfactory market situation– Vendors are not customer friendly
– EBSCO, Wolters Kluwer, Elsevier, ...
Using tender to make our view clear and to encourage competition
Does it work?
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Search functionality
Tender process – 10 months!– Tender with negotiations– Hired consultants
Limited funds Contenders
– IntelliSearch, FAST, Google, Vivisimo, open source, …
– Missing: Autonomy, Endeca, Mondosoft, …
Winner: Vivisimo
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