Reduction in available e-resources
The Healthcare Library of Northern Ireland has faced ongoing challenges in maintaining its resources due to the lack of an increased budget from the Department of Health. With rising subscription costs, the budget has effectively decreased over the years, leading to a situation where maintaining the current level of resources would result in a significant financial deficit. As a result, difficult decisions have been made to stay within the available budget.
These decisions include a 50% reduction in the library’s book budget and the cancellation of 42 e-journals, two e-journal collections, and the HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium) database. The book budget reduction is already in effect, while the changes to e-journal subscriptions (see HSC Cancellation List below) will begin in January 2025. The Library acknowledges the serious impact these reductions will have on healthcare professionals and their work, and it remains committed to working with the Department of Health to find a sustainable funding solution for the future.
HSC Cancellation List
Anesthesia and analgesia
Annals of the rheumatic diseases.
Aphasiology : an international interdisciplinary journal.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
BMJ Case Reports
BMJ Quality & safety.
Brain
British journal of cancer.
British Journal of Mental Health Nursing
British journal of music therapy.
British journal of psychiatry.
British Journal of Radiology
Canadian journal of anaesthesia
Cancer Nursing
Circulation
Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
Current opinion in otolaryngology & head and neck surgery.
Dentomaxillofacial Radiology
Disability & Rehabilitation (incl Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology)
Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
Dysphagia
Emergency medicine journal.
European Heart Journal
Good Autism Practice
HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium)
Intensive care medicine
International journal of developmental disabilities.
JCO Digital Library Collection
Journal of Infectious diseases
Journal of laryngology and otology.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry.
journal of orthopaedic & sports physical therapy [electronic resource]
Journal of Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition
Journal of Patient Safety
Journal of Pediatric Psychology
Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Pediatrics
Pharmaceutical Journal
Physics in Medicine and Biology
Prehospital Emergency care
Radiology & Radiographics
Stroke
Taylor and Francis Mental Health and Social Care Collection
Taylor and Francis Psychology Collection
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