Forwarded from Medlib-L. How much difference would there be in a straw pole of DGH libraries? Tony Tony McSeán Director of Library Relations Elsevier +44 7795 960516 +44 1865 843630 -----Original Message----- From: Medical Libraries Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bulger, James R Sent: 21 March 2005 18:50 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Summary: for community hospitals: 10 "must-have" journals (long!) Sorry this has taken so long to pull together, but here it is! I received 8 replies to my query. There's no science to this, but here are the tabulated results, ranked by number of "votes" each journal title received. It seems to me the top 12 vote-getters (each having received 3 or more votes) represent a pretty solid list. You couldn't go wrong with these. However, you'd undoubtedly want to include nursing titles and something from healthcare administration journals. 8 JAMA 8 New England Journal 6 Annals of Internal Medicine 5 Obstetrics & Gynecology 5 Pediatrics 4 American Family Physician 4 Lancet 3 American Journal of Nursing (AJN) 3 Chest 3 Circulation 3 Critical Care Medicine 3 Postgraduate Medicine 2 Archives of Internal Medicine 2 Diabetes Care 2 Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (Am) 2 Journal of Family Practice 1 American Journal of Gastroenterology 1 American Journal of Surgery 1 Anesthesia Analgesia 1 Anesthesiology 1 Annals of Emergency Medicine 1 BMJ 1 Clinical Orthopedics & Related Research 1 HealthLeaders (a "can't live without it" title) 1 Journal of National Cancer Institute 1 Journal of Ob Gyn Neo Nurs (JOGNN) 1 Journal of Trauma 1 Mayo Clinic Proceedings 1 MMWR 1 Modern Healthcare [or Hosp Health Networks - couldn't decide] 1 Nursing 1 Nursing Management 1 Physician & Sportsmedicine Thanks to all who responded! For those who have to read everything, I've snipped & pasted actual replies below. ------------------ I'm not sure all of these come in e+print, but I think at least most of them do [you're right!]: Annals of Internal medicine JAMA NEJM Lancet Pediatrics American Family Physician Journal of Family Pratice Postgraduate Medicine I work in a small medical library - we subscribe to about 45 journals, but these are most-often used titles. ------------------ The top ten (not in any certain order) most frequently perused journals are: NEJM American Family Physician JAMA Mayo Clinic Proceedings Anesthesia Analgesia Critical Care Medicine Chest Diabetes Care Obstetrics & Gynecology Journal of Bone Joint Surgery American/British ------------------ A lot of the answer to this depends on WHAT you want the 10 journals for. Are you looking for the 10 most clinically relevant, the 10 that might be on the news the most, the 10 that primary care (i.e. family practitioners, internists) would like to see, or are you used by pediatricians a lot also and might want to add one of those to the mix. Just decide the WHAT and be prepared to tell users who complain you don't have THEIR favorite journal by describing your "journal collection development process" and your "collection development policy". That is really what choosing this 10 is! Assuming primary care and assuming that you want this primarily as a browsing collection, I'd suggest: New England Journal of Medicine (if you can give them an IP address of your terminals, full text is free for 5 IP addresses) Journal of the American Medical Association Annals of Internal Medicine Archives of Internal Medicine Journal of Family Practice Pediatrics Lancet BMJ (free after 6 months) Postgraduate Medicine American Family Physician Note that this doesn't include any of the more specialized journals--American Heart Journal, Circulation, Obstetrics and Gynecology--all of which are especially worthy. You could substitute any of these for Lancet and BMJ but those 2 are particularly interesting to browsers since few primary care doctors would subscribe to them in their office and they might particularly enjoy browsing them--kind of an added value rather than possibly duplicating what they would get on their own. Also, Journal of Family Practice, Postgraduate Medicine and American Family Physician are VERY primary care focused. They have a lot of review articles, are focused on primary care, patient care, and are not "cutting edge" or research oriented. The first four along with Lancet and BMJ are likely to "make the news". Pediatrics comes with the AAP membership but it also has a STRONG primary care focus and, along with Obstetrics & Gynecology, often prints practice recommendations. I would personally say that the first 4 are absolute musts. The other 6 could be many different journals depending on your focus. Or, you could build your collection around some subset of the Brandon Hill list or look at the top 20 clinically relevant journals in the recent study by McKibbon and the folks from McMaster University in What do evidence-based secondary journals tell us about the publication of clinically important articles in primary healthcare journals? BMC Med. 2004 Sep 06;2(1):33. PMID: 15350200 ------------------ Our Top 12 (in terms of usage) are: Pediatrics New Engl. J. Med. Lancet J. Trauma J. Bone & Jt. Surg (Amer) JAMA Critical Care Med. Clin. Orthopedics & Related Res. Circulation Chest Arch. Int. Med. Annals Int. Med. ------------------ New Engl J Med, JAMA, The Lancet, Am Fam Physician, Postgrad Med, Physician and Sportsmedicine, Am J Nurs, Ann Intern Med, Obstet Gynecol, and Circulation are 10 that come to mind right away. ------------------ New England Journal of Medicine JAMA MMWR Annals of Internal Medicine Pediatrics Annals of Emergency Medicine Chest American Journal of Gastroenterology Obstetrics & Gynecology American Journal of Surgery ------------------ New England Journal of Medicine JAMA American Journal of Nursing Nursing Anesthesiology Circulation Critical care medicine Diabetes care Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing: JOGNN ------------------ New England J of Med JAMA Pediatrics AJN Obtetrics & Gynecology Annals of Internal Medicine Journal of the American College of Surgeons JNCI either Modern Healthcare or Hospitals & Health Networks Nursing Management ...[snip] One subscription I couldn't live without is HealthLeaders. $25.00/year, you get a daily headline alert with links to major newspaper and media stories in health care that I spread around... I'd pay for this one out of my own pocket for #11! ------------------ That's it! If anyone has further questions or comments, please respond to me directly, as my Medlib-l access is spotty these days (corporate spam-catchers!). --Jim ------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Bulger, MLIS Library Services - 14001 Allina Hospitals & Clinics 800 East 28th Street voice (612) 863-5230 Minneapolis, MN 55407-3799 fax (612) 863-5695 [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------ This message contains information that may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message.