August 2008

Cooperative Library Project for Nursing

An 8-Campus Prototype in Cooperative Collection Development

For the first time, libraries on all 8 campuses are working on cooperative collection development in a single subject area. We picked nursing because it has a strong presence on so many campuses and it has been identified as a strategically important program for the university.

1. eJournals:

We have subscribed to the LWW Complete Nursing Collection. It includes backfiles of 75 nursing journal titles.  The collection costs $ 11,970.00 per year and is funded by the Kent Campus library.

Initial access info:

http://ovidsp.ovid.com/autologin.html This is a link to another web site

i. At News Page, select "Continue"

ii. check "Your Journals@Ovid"

iii. select "Open selected resources"

Ovid|SP Help This is a link to another web site

2. Paper books:

Together, the 8 campus libraries are planning to spend $ 21,000 / year on paper nursing books. Collectively, this is at least $5,000 more than we normally spend. We will buy these books on a single approval profile and house them throughout the 8-campus library system.

3. eBooks:

Together, the 8 campus libraries are spending $ 3,600 / year on  a collection of  1,800  electronic nursing books from ebrary.

Direct access: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/kentstate/ This is a link to another web site

KentLINK access: http://kentlink.kent.edu/search/X?SEARCH=ebrary This is a link to another web site

ebrary Help This is a link to another web site

4. Packages:

This academic year we want to start examining various publisher "packages" of online reference materials like the "Gale Nursing Resource Center" and the "EBSCO Nursing Reference Center."

5. Multimedia:

We want your input on what assitional multimedia is needed to support the nursing program.    Contact Melissa Spohn  mspohn@kent.edu

Tom Klingler, Kent Campus, tk@kent.edu

Susan Weaver, E. Liverpool, sweaver@kent.edu