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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