ITM Library – Annual Report 2019
01/07/2020
2019 was another difficult year for the ITM library. Staff consisted at most of 2 persons, both part-timers. Nevertheless we managed to maintain basic library services – like timely document delivery (well, most of the time) – and avoid unforeseen closing days or hours (with a few unfortunate exceptions), which would not have been possible without substantial help of one temporary collaborator (3 months) and a job student (1 month).
Luckily our biomedical literature resources remained at the same level, with thousands of E-books and E-journals and dozens of bibliographic databases, all integrated seamlessly in our ever improving EDS Discovery Service.
During summer TropMed Central Antwerp received a major update adding over 500 recent bibliographic records featuring full-text PDFs. PURE research outputs were kept up-to-date on a weekly basis. At the end of the year part of ITM’s computer lab was installed in the library, so we now have a flotilla of 16 state-of-the-art workstations at the disposal of individual students and group classes.
Dirk Schoonbaert
2019 in Numbers
| Books | |
|---|---|
| Acquisitions (Print and Digital) | 154 |
| – Purchased p-Books | 124 |
| – Purchased e-Books | 19 |
| – Donated p-Books | 11 |
| – Retrospectively Cataloged Older p-Books | 0 |
| Total Number of Print Books | ca. 24500 |
| Individual new e-Books Cataloged in 2019 | 350 |
| Total Number of Individual e-Books in Catalog * | ca. 4000 |
| Total Number of e-Books in Packages ** | ca. 12000 |
| Total Number of CD-ROMs | ca. 360 |
| Total Number of Videos | 459 |
| Total Number of ITM Dissertations | 3307 |
| – Total Number of Digital Master Theses | 2484 |
| Total Number of PhD Theses in Collection | 1197 |
| – Total Number of Digital PhD Theses | 124 |
| Journals | |
|---|---|
| Print Subscriptions | ca. 80 |
| – Volumes Bound in 2019 | 0 |
| – Total Number of Volumes | ca. 37650 |
| Online Subscriptions | ca. 4000 |
| Online Package Subscriptions | 5 |
| Free Open Access Journals (DOAJ) | ca. 14000 |
| Databases | |
|---|---|
| Electronic Reference Library (ERL) | |
| – Number of ERL Databases | 12 |
| – ITG Staff Publications: Number of Records | 17440 |
| – TropMed Central Antwerp: Number of Records | 8881 |
| – ISI Web of Knowledge Sessions | ca. 2300 |
| Other Bibliographic Database Subscriptions | 4 |
| Major Free Online Databases | 5 |
| Document Delivery | |
|---|---|
| Internal Requests | ca. 2500 |
| Incoming Requests | 101 |
| Outgoing Requests | 339 |
| Success Rate | 95.0% |
| DGDC Framework Requests | 62 |
| Success Rate | 92.3% |
| Photocopies & Prints | 14919 |
* Individual e-books in the library catalog, excl. open access e-books from e.g. WHO or NCBI
** E.g. Ebsco Clinical Collection and several free internet platforms