ITM Library – Annual Report 2015
31/01/2016
2015 did not feature major changes in the library’s organization, services or collections. Yet by the end of the year we were able to licence Nature Complete: i.e. the full content – including archives – of 80 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) journals, including Nature (from 1869 onwards), 20 Nature research journals, 16 Nature review journals and 40 additional NPG journals. We also acquired BioOne Complete – a platform offering full-text access to some 200 journals focusing on ecology, parasitology, and entomology – and hundreds of e-books in the Ebsco Clinical Collection. TropMed Central Antwerp – our institutional open access repository – received a major content update and systems upgrade. Noor Goemaere succeeded Dirk Schoonbaert as the library’s ‘quality manager’.
Dirk Schoonbaert
2015 in Numbers
| Books | |
|---|---|
| Acquisitions | 388 |
| – Purchased | 216 |
| – Purchased e-books | 73 |
| – Donated | 54 |
| – Retrospectively cataloged older books | 45 |
| Total Number of Print Books | 23686 |
| Total Number of Individual e-Books * | 1559 |
| Total Number of e-Books in Packages ** | ca. 6600 |
| Total Number of CD-ROMs | 339 |
| Total Number of Videos | 382 |
| Total Number of ITM Dissertations | 3122 |
| – Total Number of Digital Master Theses | 2315 |
| Total Number of PhD Theses in Collection | 1065 |
| – Total Number of Digital PhD Theses | 88 |
| Journals | |
|---|---|
| Print Subscriptions | 296 |
| – Volumes Bound in 2015 | 230 |
| – Total Number of Volumes | ca. 37100 |
| Online Subscriptions | 2970 |
| Online Package Subscriptions | 4 |
| Free Open Access Journals (DOAJ) | > 11000 |
| Databases | |
|---|---|
| Electronic Reference Library (ERL) | |
| – Number of ERL Databases | 12 |
| – ITG Staff Publications: Number of Records | 16033 |
| – TropMed Central Antwerp: Number of Records | 7460 |
| – ERL Login Sessions | ca. 4200 |
| – ERL Database Logins | ca. 8000 |
| – ISI Web of Knwoldege Sessions | 3079 |
| Other Database Subscriptions | 3 |
| Major Free Online Databases | 5 |
| Document Delivery | |
|---|---|
| Internal Requests | 4321 |
| Incoming Requests | 626 |
| Outgoing Requests | 684 |
| Success Rate | 95.9% |
| DGDC Framework Requests | 244 |
| Success Rate | 93.8% |
| Photocopies & Prints | 26911 |
* Individual e-books in the library catalog, excl. open access e-books from e.g. WHO or NCBI
** SpringerLink medical and biomedical collections 2005-2010 and Ebsco Clinical Collection