I concur with Hella.

 

With the bankruptcy and closing of Swets offices in New Jersey……….this was bound to happen, but I saw no mention of this on BackMed. Suspect someone just turned off the Swets server this was based on. Our messages started bouncing Jan 15.

 

I have sent a similar suggestion to NLM, but realize they may take years to get governmental approval……….and right now I have quite a few journals I would like to put on BackMed, that might find a home at another medical library, that are destined for the paper recycling, including JBJS AM 1995-2013. We have about 410 print titles in our collection, the majority of which depend on their completeness from judiciously following BackMed for years and years. All of that scrounging benefits my local clinicians and Docline/SerHold.

 

One librarian, who just sent multiple boxes of bound journals to fill in gaps in our collection………..thought she might see if EBSCO was interested. It would be nice if this could be supported by a non-commercial entity.

 

Not sure who to contact, but is this also something that MLA might want to support? I am trying to figure what organization would see the benefit of this form of ‘medical library community outreach’, for a service that Swets did not charge to participate……..and had basic/ethical guidelines for how exchanges of journals/reimbursement were done.

 

 

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Hello,

It seems that the Backmed listserv has been taken off the Swets server without any notification, about a week ago.  

Do you know of an alternative to this?

Otherwise it would be great if NASIG could start a similar listserv.

Thanks,

Hella

 

 

Hella Bluhm-Stieber, MLIS, AHIP

Medical Librarian

M.J. Chatton Medical Library

Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System

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San Jose, CA 95128

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