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Table 2 Number & Price per Journal in the Reference Standards for Products Evaluated

From: Purchasing online journal access for a hospital medical library: how to identify value in commercially available products

Name of List (number of full text journals on list)

#1 Number (%) & price per journal of BH core 60 journals present on list (US $)

#2 Number (%) & price per journal of BH 141 journals present on list (US $)

#3 Number (%) and price per journal of FSU 449 journals present on list (US $)

#4 Number (%) and price per journal of Queen Elizabeth Hospital 208 Journal collection (US $)

A Biomedical Reference Collection Comprehensive Edition (550)

7 (12%)

$1174

17 (12%)

$483

75 (17%)

$110

23 (11%)

$357

B Proquest Research Library, Pharmaceutical News Index and Medical Library (494)

19 (32%)

$395

44 (31%)

$170

93 (21%)

$81

46 (22%)

$163

C Ovid Core Biomedical Collection (15)

9 (15%)

$1382

13 (9%)

$957

15 (3%)

$829

8 (4%)

$1384

D Ovid Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Brandon Hill Collection (20)

10 (17%)

$1107

18 (13%)

$615

18 (4%)

$615

8 (4%)

$1384

E Ovid Brandon/Hill Plus Collection (66)

28 (47%)

$1955

64 (45%)

$855

64 (14%)

$855

27 (13%)

$2028

F Ovid Brandon/Hill plus Hague Collection l and ll (124)

31 (52%)

$3194

67 (48%)

$1478

110 (25%)

$900

47 (23%)

$2106