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Cooperation and consortia: New way of accessing to the databases by consortia in Hungary. Progress of two projects in the medical and health faculties.
Livia Vasas, Imola Jehoda
Central Library, Imre Haynal Library
of Semmelweis University
Ulloi ut 26 - Budapest, HU-1085
lvasas@lib.sote.hu
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In addition
to MEDLINE, the EMBASE and CINAHIL databases are among the most important
bibliographic sources in medicine. These are expensive electronic sources.
The new way of the CD-ROM subscription is to organise one or more consortia
with different members.
Definition of Consortia:
temporary alliance for common financial activity.
Definition of Consortia for resources
of information: Alliance of user groups of special subjects for
common acquisition and usage.
The general processes of establishing
consortia are as follows:
- general aims:
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to increase the information access and
supply,
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to decrease the hardware expenses
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the shared common usage of services
- the results: maximum utilisation
of the devices and knowledge
Target of their establishing:
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to take part in different national /international
projects efficiently
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to decrease the budget.
Types of Consortia:
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National
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International
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Regional/local
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Professional field
The main steps in creating consortia:
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to decide the would-be aims
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to inform the relevant groups
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joining statement for consortia, which
informs about the number of would be users and the present technical conditions
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to fix the concrete work by the management
of different groups of experts (members, leading committee, election of
project manager)
Their tasks are:
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comparative analysis of information
services, shipping facilities, fitting to the other resources, decision
about the e-doc: CD-ROM /online.
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paying conditions
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test period before usage, trainings
for librarians
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learning the research techniques for
users
Final decision:
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choosing the best vendor, contract,
using and its analysis and agreement between the members of consortia in
sharing of expenses.
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Comparison of two consortia,
special and common features
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| EMBASE |
Common
features |
CINAHIL |
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National
health consortia |
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Sponsored
by OTKA |
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Project financial
support exclusively |
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Bibliographic
SilverPlatter databases |
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Members
and end-users: |
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4 university
with 8 faculties
8 national health institutions (with
8 subjects) |
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4 health
colleges of four universities at eight sites |
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