Proquest Myilibrary Brochure (pdf)
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ProQuest MyiLibrary Medical
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE RANGE OF
MEDICAL AND HEALTH E-BOOK TITLES
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Value: multiple simultaneous access
options ensure excellent value
Key Titles: over 7,000 individual titles
available
Leading Publishers: content from
leading medical publishers
Flexibility: purchase individual titles or
subscribe to predefined collections
Intuitive: a simple, powerful search
platform
Integrated: cross-search MyiLibrary
books with ProQuest full-text journal
collections
With a flexible, easy-to-use platform, ProQuest MyiLibrary
Medical complements our existing medical re s o u rces in
countless ways, offering more choice, more value, and more
quality content to our fast-growing health and medical
customer base.
Combining vital information and key journals with broad coverage gives ProQuest health and medical full-text journal collections their
unique value and high quality. | ProQuest has partnered with MyiLibrary to offer our growing customer base an impressive range of
health and medical e-books. | MyiLibrary is one of the world’s leading e-content hosting platforms with nearly two million patrons
regularly accessing some of the most up-to-date and authoritative content available today. Collections include output from many of the
world’s largest scientific, technical, and medical publishers, such as Wiley Publishers, Taylor and Francis, Springer Publishing, Elsevier
Publishing, and Oxford University Press, as well as unique collections from inter-governmental organizations like the World Health
Organization, and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
“ Four evaluation cri t e ria we re finally used…Service and
Technical eva l u a t i o n ,Value for Money, and Supplier
R e s p o n s ive n e s s . In addition, the group considered the nu m b e r
of non-embargoed journals on offer. Each cri t e rion again wa s
weighed and fed into the final score. The result was that
P roQuest scored highest, by over 15%.” —Health Information and
L i b ra ries Journ a l , 2 0 0 3 , on why ProQuest was chosen over other providers to
s u p p ly the National Health Service England with full-text journ a l s.
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Key titles from the world’s
World Health Organization e-library In addition
leading medical publishers
to books from the key medical publishers, ProQuest
MyiLibrary Medical also includes the growing World
Working in partnership with MyiLibrary, ProQuest
Health Organization e-library. This evolving
now brings you the most comprehensive range of
collection, updated monthly, covers both past
medical, nursing, and allied health e-book titles
publications and new titles as they are produced.
available. | Highlights from the list of prestigious
publishers with content available in MyiLibrary
include:
• Blackwell Publishing
• Cambridge University Press
• Elsevier Publishing
• McGraw Hill Publishing
• Oxford University Press
• Palgrave MacMillan Publishing
• Springer Publishing
• Taylor & Francis
• Wiley Publishers
• World Health Organization/UNAIDS
The list of publishers will continue to grow and new
titles are added on a weekly basis.
“After selecting a group of potential suppliers , the Core Content Gro u p
c a refully evaluated the offerings from all the e-book platforms ava i l a ble and
concluded that the MyiLibrary platform re p resented the best choice, o f f e ri n g
value for money, excellent content, f l e x i ble licensing, re l i a b i l i t y, and ease of
u s e.”—NHS England on why they selected MyiLibra ry to provide medical e-books.
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P r o Q u e s t M y i L i b r a r y M e d i c a l
Perpetual access to over 7,000 medical book titles
I n d ividual medical and health e-book titles can be purchased indiv i d u a l l y. A l t e rn a t ive l y, subject-specific collections are ava i l a ble on annu a l
s u b s c ri p t i o n .
Subject-specific collections for
your library Comprehensive collections are
available on a subscription basis. As with ProQuest
journal databases, the collections are kept up to date
with new publications and new editions as they are
published. | Collections currently available include:
• Oxford Textbooks
• Oxford Handbooks
• Nursing
• Primary Care
• Clinician’s Choice
• Psychology
• Family Health
• Medical Research
• Allied Health
• Health Management
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f o r
All health and medical
Key titles Just as ProQuest full-text journal
s are
d i s c i p l i n e s ProQuest MyiLibrary
databases include high impact factor titles and
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Medical offers coverage of all medical
essential materials recommended in the Brandon-Hill
to date
and health disciplines, including:
and Core Collection content lists, ProQuest
y are
MyiLibrary Medical contains many titles
ude:
• Cancer
recommended by:
• Critical Care
• Dentistry
• Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences
• Dermatology
• Brandon-Hill Lists
• Diabetes
• BMA Core Collection (The Hague List)
• Internal Medicine
• Nursing
Contact us for a copy of our most recent titles list.
• Ophthalmology
• Pathology
• Pediatrics
Value ProQuest MyiLibrary Medical offers
• Physical Therapy
simultaneous use at the book level, minimizing the
• Psychiatry
risk of users being locked out of the system. | Site
• Surgery
license pricing may be negotiated on a case-by-case
basis for many titles and collections. Please contact
us for more details.
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E f f o rt l e s s a c c e s s
Robust, secure, quick, and easy-to-use, the ProQuest MyiLibrary Medical platform offers a selection of tools and features to ensure
you get the most from your e-book collection.
Full-text searching MyiLibrary allows you to
Exact replication of the print book Including
MARC records Each title has MARC records
browse across all titles, and search by title, author,
images, photographs, charts, and original pagination.
available allowing direct access from a library OPAC.
ISBN, publisher, publication date, subject, keyword,
These MARC records can be upgraded and
or full text.
Note pad Access a unique note pad allowing you
customized if required.
to bookmark individual pages or chapters and copy
Copy, paste, and print Copy text and images from
items including paragraphs and pages into your own
Multiple authentication access Users can
all titles into Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
documents.
access MyiLibrary via various authentication
(subject to individual publisher restrictions).
methods—including IP address and username and
password—allowing 24/7 access.
New title alerts Alerts allow you to keep up to
Simple Library Integr a t i o n
date with all new titles in your field of interest.
To o l s
Customization options Add your library branding
to the interface.
Simultaneous multi-user access MyiLibrary is
Real-time reporting Generate real-time reports
designed to allow simultaneous access to the
on various aspects of usage such as which titles
collections for multiple users.
were viewed, when, and for how long.
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Powerful searching with
Cross-search 2,500 journals with over 7,000
P roQuest journal databases
books We’ve added e-book metadata for all
7,000+ titles in MyiLibrary to ProQuest health and
E-book content in MyiLibrary will soon be
medical journal collections. This will give users the
cross-searchable with ProQuest’s leading
power to search books and journals simultaneously.
health and medical journal databases:
This functionality, combined with the full-text
searching option, makes this combined book and
• ProQuest Medical Library™
journal offering one of the most powerful available.
• ProQuest Health and Medical Complete™
• ProQuest Nursing Journals™
• ProQuest Psychology Journals™
• ProQuest Family Health
• ProQuest Health Management
E-book titles are categorized by medical disciplines,
making browsing simple.
MeSH subject headings from the U.S. National
Library of Medicine has been added to the book
metadata, enabling more specialized searching.
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For More Information
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