From: "Bondar, Audrey" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:54:18 -0500
Hi Susan,
Thank you for the feedback. This collection is an annual
subscription. I have purchased other ebooks that would be, to me, the
same as purchasing a print copy. You pay for the next edition if you
choose to. However, for a subscribed title we expected the most
current information.
--Audrey
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From: Susan Raidy-Klein <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:16:40 -0500
Audrey,
It's not clear from your comment If you purchased the collection
without a contractual stipulation that they would be replaced with
more current editions. Generally, the subscription method would
provide for updating of editions, but not a one-time purchase.
Hope this helps,
Susan
Susan Raidy-Klein
Collection Development & Acquisition Librarian University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth N. Dartmouth, MA 02747 [log in to unmask]
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From: "Bondar, Audrey" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:48:18 -0500
Please excuse the cross posting.
A couple days ago I decided to take a closer look at the Ovid
Lippincott's Clinical Choice Collection of ebook titles.
There are 36 books in the collection. Of them:
2013=1; 2012=1; 2011=1; 2010=3; 2009=12; 2008=3; 2006=4; 2005=4;
2002=1; 2001=3; 2000=1 and 1999=2
(I used the date info found on the website but searching elsewhere the
date was sometimes off by 1 year)
Of these included titles:
CLINICAL ANESTHESIA, 2009, 6th edition is listed but the 7th 2013 is
available and it is a LWW title
Schiff's DISEASES OF THE LIVER, 2006, 10th edition--this title is now
published by Wiley as the 11th edition 2012 and access is provided to
the 10th edition
MODERN NUTRITION IN HEALTH AND DISEASE, 2005, 10th edition--11th ed.
2014 LWW is listed in OCLC but access is to the older ed.
REICHEL'S CARE OF THE ELDERLY: CLINICAL ASPECTS OF AGING, 1999, 5th
edition--the 2009 is published by Cambridge and access is given to the
5th
I'm disappointed. My expectation is that when we are subscribing to a
clinical collection we are receiving the most current edition of the
titles listed. Also, I didn't realize that the year with the most
titles is 2009. I will review all future collection purchases more
closely. What do you think?
Audrey Bondar, MSLS, AHIP
Librarian
Henry Ford Hospital
Sladen Library
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