[Koha] OT: Resources for the Philippines

Alice Esguerra kaces08 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 13 19:48:58 NZDT 2013


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 at 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 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
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Discussion list for registered DOCLINE users.
> > [mailto:DOCLINE-L at LIST.NIH.GOV] On Behalf Of NLM DOCLINE (NIH/NLM)
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 8:29 AM
> > To: DOCLINE-L at LIST.NIH.GOV
> > Subject: [DOCLINE-L] Resources for the Philippines
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > - Maria
> >
> > National Library of Medicine
> > US: 1-888-FINDNLM (press 2)
> > Intl: 301-594-5983 (press 2)
> >
> > NOTE: This e-mail was sent from a notification-only address. To obtain
> > DOCLINE customer support, please complete the relevant form by clicking
> > Contact Us in DOCLINE or send an e-mail message to custserv at nlm.nih.gov
> >
> >
> >
> >
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-- 
Alicia C. Esguerra
Associate Professor I/ Librarian
Bulacan State University
City of Malolos, Bulacan 3000
Philippines
+63 044 7961417
www.bulsu.edu.ph


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