[Koha] OT: Resources for the Philippines

[Chris Cormack]

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 at 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 at nlm.nih.gov or call 1-888-346-3656 in the United States, or
> 301-594-5983 internationally.
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