Collection Development After budget cuts in FY 2009-10 that necessitated the cancellation of some resources, the Library was able to maintain the collection at its present level for FY <strong>2010</strong>-11. Thanks to the Academic Library Collection Enhancement Program (ALCEP) of the University of Texas Digital Library Consortium (UTDLC), the Library’s users gained access to over 4,000 e-books in the fields of medicine, biomedical and life sciences, chemistry, materials science, behavioral science, mathematics and statistics from Springer, one of the world’s top scientific publishers. The Library’s institutional repository, DigitalCommons@The Texas Medical Center, added considerably to its contents during the year. The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UTHealth continues to deposit electronic theses and dissertations, and these are among the most highly used documents in the repository. Users also have access to theses and dissertations from two other UTHealth schools, the School of Nursing and the School of Public Health. The Library became a publisher in <strong>2010</strong> when it agreed to publish and host the newly established Journal of Applied Research on Children (JARC) from the Children at Risk Foundation. A second, associated publication, the Journal of Family Strengths, will be hosted and published by the Library as well. Throughout FY <strong>2010</strong>-11 the department accepted donations of books and journals for HELP, a charitable program established by American students to fill the needs of libraries in Africa. To date thousands of volumes have been sent to a medical school in The Gambia, West Africa. Highest-Use Journals Downloads The New England Journal of Medicine 80,127 Nature (London) 65,367 Cell (Cambridge) 44,107 Science (New York, N.Y.) 43,656 The Journal of Biological Chemistry 39,387 PNAS : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 32,938 Circulation 27,176 JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association 24,798 Neuron 23,227 Journal of Neuroscience 20,431 Cancer Research 18,045 Molecular Cell 16,625 The Lancet (British edition) 16,445 Blood 15,582 Pediatrics (Evanston) 15,407 Nature Genetics 12,929 American Journal of Human Genetics 12,338 Journal of Clinical Oncology 12,096 Nature Medicine 11,967 Journal of Immunology 11,864 Journal of the American College of Cardiology 11,495 Stroke 10,622 Circulation Research 10,291 Oncogene 9,922 Nature Neuroscience 9,236 JARC, a new peer-reviewed journal published by the TMC Library 7
Highest-Use Databases, FY <strong>2010</strong>-11 AccessMedicine 15417 7377 19821 CINAHL 14339 18182 MD Consult Scopus Stat!Ref Access to the library paid subscriptions to electronic journals is critical to the success of our ongoing research activities. We are all amazed and thrilled at the ability to access so much information so easily. The ability to have such easy access to so much information helps us move our research forward at the maximum possible pace.—Rodney E. Kellems, PhD, Chair, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UTHealth 8