Canadian Health Research Collection Renewal 2012-2013 [1]
Libraries interested in SUBSCRIBING to this product for the first time, or existing customers wishing to RENEW this product through e-HLbc should contact e-HLbc by Friday, December 7, 2012.
To RENEW, no action is required from the following libraries:
- Nicola Valley Institute of Technology
- Northern Lights College
- Okanagan College
- Selkirk College
- Simon Fraser University
- Thompson Rivers University
- Trinity Western University
- University of BC
- University of Victoria
- Vancouver Island University
- College of Physicians & Surgeons of BC
- Minstry of Children & Family Development
- Ministry of Health
- Interior Health Authority
- Northern Health Authority
- Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
- Vancouver Island Health Authority
Late subscribers are welcome!
Pricing is now available for the Gibson Library Connections' Canadian Health Reference Collection (CHRC) Renewal. e-HLbc has negotiated pricing, including significant consortial discounts on both the initial purchase of the collection as well as annual updates:
- New licensors will see ~20% discount off of list price.
- Existing licensors can experience up to a 40% discount off of list price.
In most cases, costs for new subscribers has increased approximately 9% from last year to account for the addition of approximately 1,500 titles. e-HLbc has negotiated with the vendor a decrease in costs for new health authority subscribers so that their prices are aligned with those in the post-secondary sector.
e-HLbc has negotiated a minimal annual update increase of 3%.
Please note that all e-HLbc pricing (for both existing and new subscribers) represents a significant discount off of the list price for this product.
**From the vendor's website:
The Canadian Health Research Collection (CHRC) is a collection of monograph publications from Canadian research institutes, government agencies and university centres working in the area of health and medical research. The organizations included in this collection are very active publishers of primary research in the field. The publications included are both general policy documents as well as those of a specialized technical nature.
By the end of 2012, there will be over 9,500 titles in the collection, and the service will provide more than 1,500 additional current documents to subscribers each year. For more information on the collection, see http://www.canadianelectroniclibrary.ca/Cdn_health_research_collection.html [2].
For a title list, see http://www.canadianelectroniclibrary.ca/collateral/CHRCCollection.xlsx [3].