1. RCS Library Services and You PAB meeting Norwich, 24 th September 2015 Thalia Knight Director of Library and Surgical Information Services The Royal College of Surgeons of England www.rcseng.ac.uk/library 1

2. Library Reading Room 2

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4. “ endless flood of the medical literature ” W. G.Ploucquet's Literatura medica digesta... Tubingen,Cotta, 1808, v.1:[Hi]: "Cumautem flumen perenne Litera­turae Medicae urgeret, factum est, ut ad finem anni 1806 iterum in­ signis. Copia noviter inserendorum, numerum 40,000 circiter aequans.” 4

5. Wilhelm Gottfried Ploucquet (1744-1814) 5

6. Founder of Pubmed Surgeon John Shaw Billings (1838-1913) Billings Brodman, Estelle. The Development of Medical Bibliography (1954). Frontispiece.

7. US National Library of Medicine US National Library of Medicine Bethesda, Md. 7 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/United_States_National_Library_of_Medicine_1999.jpg

8. Medline/PubMed stats 2014 Citations Indexed for MEDLINE  765,850 Medline/PubMed searches  2.7 Billion RCS Database searches (incl. Embase)  Half-year (Jan-June 2015): 113,065 (2014: 87,137 – 30% increase) 8

9. Transforming Access to Surgical Knowledge – TASK Access – digital, online, mobile, on-site Increased online content – from c90 surgical e-journals in 2010 to 450+ in 2015 Develop new services: Current Awareness Bulletins Plan development of spaces Build on Designated status - nationally & internationally significant collections 9

11. Lots of stuff – all formats Over 75,000 books (earliest 1471) c2000 periodical runs – from 1665 onwards 30,640 tracts and pamphlets; c21,000 being digitised by Wellcome 450 e-journal subscriptions; c100 print subs Anatomy.tv (Primal) and Acland’s Video atlas of human anatomy Databases: Ovid Medline and Embase Clinical Key coming January 2016….

12. What’s in Clinical Key? Over 600 full text e-journals published by Elsevier (includes our current Science Direct titles) Over 1000 e-textbooks and reference manuals Over 17,000 medical and surgical and videos Over 2 million images that can be used for teaching and presentations And more… 12

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14. Services Online resources Current Awareness Service Bulletins Enquiry and Literature SearchingLiterature Searching Teaching and loan collections Article delivery Plarr’s ‘Lives of the Fellows’ Blog 14

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16. RCS use of e-journals – article downloads July 2014 – June 2015: 90,918 2010-11: 55,763 Increase of 63% 16

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18. Current Awareness Service (1/2) The bulletins were implemented in response to members’ requests 18 Tailored for individual surgical specialties Delivered as an email using Campaignmaster email marketing software

19. 19 Current Awareness Service (2/2) Specialist Advisory Panel give advice in setting up new bulletins. They advise on: Sub-specialties to include e.g. Paediatric craniofacial surgery for Plastic surgeons Publications to consult and study types and topics to include

20. 20 The bulletin TOC of one journal (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Vol.133, Iss.6)

21. 21 Bulletin Journal TOC 37 Plastic surgery titles plus 44 general medical and surgical titles

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28. Get in touch Tel: 020 7869 6556 Mon-Fri: 9.30 – 17.30 Email: library@rcseng.ac.uk 28