Re: Clinical Evidence-Institutional site license

[Marg Walker <marg.walker@chmeds.ac.nz>]

Ovid's "Clinical Evidence" is the BMJ product.  I can't see any
Pay-as-you-go price, but it might be worth asking Ovid.  The link is:

http://www.ovid.com/products/clinical/clinicalevidence.cfm

Clinical Evidence is a database product - Ovid describes it as a database
of hundreds of thoroughly researched clinical questions.

I hope you can get BMJ to bring the price down, but if not it seems a
wonderful product for US$245.  I guess people will have to continue to
visit the library!

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Marg Walker
Chief Librarian
Canterbury Medical Library 
Christchurch School of Medicine
Christchurch Hospital
Private Bag 4345
Christchurch, New Zealand
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At 05:56 PM 13-03-01 EST, you wrote:
>I don't know if it is exactly the same thing, but Clinical Evidence is
>available from Ovid for licensing by concurrent use rather than by FTE.
>Licensing by concurrent use allows you to pay a more modest fee if you
>estimate that the use on your site is smaller.  Jim Morgan
>
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>
>On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Tobia, Rajia wrote:
>
>> This message is directed primarily to health sciences librarians that may
>> read liblicense.
>> 
>> I recently received a request from one of our faculty members to
>> investigate an institutional site license to Clinical Evidence, a British
>> Medical Journal publication.  The print form of this publication comes out
>> twice a year and has institutional pricing of $245 USD for the 2001
>> subscription. The terms of the institutional site license for the online
>> version of this journal are posted at
>> http://www.clinicalevidence.org/subscription/pricing-e-access-institutions.h
>> tm.  In reading the terms, pricing is based on FTEs and for our
>> institution with around 2,500 FTEs the cost would be at least $27,500 ($11
>> USD per FTE). Needless to say, my jaw dropped when I saw this price.
>> 
>> My questions are:  Has any library out there subscribed to the
>> institutional site license for Clinical Evidence?  Were you able to
>> negotiate a better deal with BMJ than the terms posted on the Website?  
>> Is Clinical Evidence online worth the cost?
>> 
>> Rajia Tobia
>> Associate Library Director for Collection Development
>> University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
>> Briscoe Library MSC 7940
>> 7703 Floyd Curl Drive
>> San Antonio, TX 78229-3900
>> Phone:  210/567-2400
>> Fax:  210/567-2490
>> mailto:tobia@uthscsa.edu