Greetings from the Philippines! @ Mr. Fred King, thank you for sharing the info about NLM's Emergency Access Initiative; very helpful, greatly appreciated. @ Mr. Chris Cormack, very true. The National Library of the Philippines and almost all the public library system in the country uses Koha; not only that, some private and public academic libraries and a few special libraries use Koha too. Koha is becoming popular ILMS of choice here not only because it is FOSS, but primarily because it is efficient, reliable and stable, and has strong and friendly user community. Thank you all very much. On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz>wrote:
Not that off topic, the Philippines are a massive user of Koha. All the public libraries as well as the National library use Koha. So I am sure there are quite a few on the list.
Chris On 13/11/2013 4:56 AM, "Fred King" <kohauser@phred.us> wrote:
Thoroughly off-topic, for which I apologize, but since the list's subscribers are all over the world some of you may know of libraries in the Philippines that would benefit from this.
--Fred
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All,
The National Library of Medicine announces the activation of the Emergency Access Initiative in support of medical efforts in the Philippines and surrounding areas following the devastating typhoon. The Emergency Access Initiative is a collaborative partnership between NLM and participating publishers to provide free access to full-text articles from over 650 biomedical serial titles and over 4,000 reference books and online databases to healthcare professionals and libraries affected by disasters.
The Emergency Access Initiative serves as a temporary collection replacement and/or supplement for libraries affected by disasters that need to continue to serve medical staff and affiliated users. It is also intended for medical personnel responding to the specified disaster.
EAI is not an open access collection - it is only intended for those affected by the disaster or assisting the affected population. If your library is working with a library or organization involved in relief efforts in the Philippines or other affected areas, please let them know of this service.
Emergency Access Initiative: http://eai.nlm.nih.gov
NLM thanks the participating publishers for their generous support of this initiative: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association, American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, ASM Press, B.C. Decker, BMJ, EBSCOHost, Elsevier, FA Davis, Mary Ann Liebert, Massachusetts Medical Society, McGraw-Hill, Merck Publishing, Oxford University Press, People's Medical Publishing House, Springer, University of Chicago Press, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer.
Sample journal titles: . Accident and emergency nursing . Annals of internal medicine . Archives of surgery . Burns . Depression and anxiety . Disaster medicine and public health preparedness . Environmental toxicology and pharmacology . International journal of cardiology . International journal of infectious diseases . JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association . Journal of emergency medicine . Journal of traumatic stress . Lancet . New England journal of medicine . Surgery
Sample book titles: . Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy . Public health & preventive medicine . Trauma . Handbook of critical care . Human virology . Infectious diseases: the clinician's guide to diagnosis, treatment and prevention . AHFS drug information
Online databases: . Cochrane database of systematic reviews . DynaMed . Essential Evidence Plus
For questions regarding the Emergency Access Initiative, please email custserv@nlm.nih.gov or call 1-888-346-3656 in the United States, or 301-594-5983 internationally.
- Maria
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