The Texas Medical Center Library:
Resources and Services
L. Maximilian Buja, M.D.
Executive Director
The TMC Library
• Established 1949
• Independent member institution of the TMC
• Unique consortial Library with 8 TMC governing institutions
and 13 TMC supporting institutions
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine South Central
Regional Library since 1991
The TMC Library Governing Institutions
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Baylor College of Medicine (4 BOD seats)
UT Health Science Center-Houston (3 BOD seats)
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (1 BOD seat)
U of Houston (Pharmacy & Optometry) (1 BOD seat)
Texas Southern Univ. (Pharmacy) (1 BOD seat)
Texas Woman’s Univ. (1 BOD seat)
Houston Academy of Medicine (2 BOD seats)
Texas Medical Center (1 BOD seat)
The TMC Library Strategic Plan
FY 2012-15
• Vision
The TMC Library aspires to be recognized as a world-class leader in
the delivery and development of biomedical information.
• Mission Goals
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Collect, Provide and Conserve Biomedical Information
Teach Strategies and Develop Techniques for Knowledge Management
Provide a Center for Study, Research and Collaboration
Implement Public Relations and Marketing Strategies
THE TMC LIBRARY HOME PAGE
http://www.library.tmc.edu/
Off-site usage requires remote access log on
The TMC Library Departments and Senior Staff
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Executive Director – L. Maximilian Buja, MD
Chief Operating Officer – TBA
Chief Financial Officer – Dorothy Cobbs, MA
Circulation – Jesse Gonzalez
Collection Development – Dean James, PhD, MLS
– Interlibrary Loan – Alisa Hemphill
• Information Technology – J. Chris Young
• Research and Education – Lisa Berry, MLS
• McGovern Historical Collection & Research Center –
Philip Montgomery, MLS, CA
• NN/LM SCR Library – Michelle Malizia, MA
Annual Budgets
FY2013
Revenue
• Assessments
FY2014
Revenue
$6,929,363 • Assessments
$7,364,966 (6.29%)
• Other
$767,679 • Other
$670,603 (-12.65%)
• Total:
$7,697,042 • Total:
$8,035,569 (4.40%)
Budgeted Expenses
Budgeted Expenses
• Collections
$2,448,871 • Collections
$2,572,090 (5.03%)
• Personnel
$3,221,461 • Personnel
$3,315,174 (2.91%)
• Other
$2,725,983 • Other
• Depreciation
($876,903) • Depreciation
• Capital Exp.
$177,630 • Capital Exp.
• Total:
RML NN/LM-SCR
• Direct Revenue
$7,697,042 • Total:
$2,257,260 (-17.2%)
($200,000)
$91,045 (-48.7%)
$8,035,569 (4.40%)
RML NN/LM-SCR
$1,375,210 • Direct Revenue
$1,240,498
The TMC Library
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8,215 Electronic Journals
11,000 Electronic Books
288 Databases
356,575 Print Volumes
• Total FTE: 54.33
• FY 2013 expense budget:
(without depreciation expense:
• Collection budget:
• Electronic collection:
• Print collection:
• NN/LM SCR current year contract:
$7,697,042
$6,820,139 )
$2,448,871
$2,403,496
$45,375
$1,375,210
Access Control System for Documentation of On-Site Usage
The TMC Library
FY 2012 and FY 2013 On-Site Usage
• Total On-Site Usage for FY 2012:
– 68,283 visits over 48 weeks
– 6,621 unique visitors
– 1,422 visits per week (average)
– 203 visits per day (average)
• Current On-Site Usage for FY 2013 YTD:
– 44,894 visits
– 5,274 unique visitors
– 1320 visits per week (average)
– 188 visits per day (average)
The TMC Library
FY 2012 On-Site Usage
UTHealth
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Baylor College of Medicine
All visits – 22,995 (33.7%)*
Faculty – 1,360
Trainees – 15,622
Staff, Other – 6,013
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All visits – 14,482 (21.2%)*
Faculty – 1,685
Trainees – 9,906
Staff, Other – 2,891
Total visits from all TMC institutions = 68,283
The TMC Library
FY2012 Electronic Usage
• Total Electronic Usage
– 3,184.25 GB/17,835 unique users = 178 MB/user
• Top Institutions
– BCM
• 1,785 GB/6,848 unique users = 260 MB/user
• 57.4% of total usage
– UT Health
• 816 GB/5,239 unique users = 159 MB/user
• 26.7% of total usage
GB = 109 bytes; MB = 106 bytes
Staff Functions To Provide Electronic
Resources
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Purchasing negotiations
Database Management to Make Access Seamless
Federate/Discovery Search
IT Hardware and Infrastructure
Management of EZProxy (Gatekeeper) and Reporting Systems
(Accounting for Usage)
Metadata Creation & Quality Control for Access
Open URL Link Resolver
Curriculum Support
Personalized research support
Reference services
Troubleshooting/solving user problems with resource access
User training
UTSDL licensing management
Vendor management
FY 2012-13 TMC LIBRARY RESOURCE
EXPENDITURES BY PROVIDER
Direct From Publishers
SCAMeL
SWETS (Society Journal Subscriptions)
$757,038
$67,528
$120,792
Texas Health Science Library Consortium
(THSLC)
$55,573
University of Texas System Digital Library
Consortium (UTSDL)
$1,425,687
Print Books
Ebrary
(Friends of The TMC Library funds)
TOTAL:
$57,500
5,000
$2,489,119
Value Proposition
• Both UTHealth and BCM benefit as TMC
Library members in purchases of major journal
packages from publishers obtained through
the UTSDLC. Per student costs are
substantially less than for other UT Health
Institutions.
UTSDLC Purchases
Publisher
• Science Direct
• Springer Link
• Wiley Online
Total TMC
Library
• $651,559
• $242,800
• $245,832
BCM + UTH
• $456,482
• $170,106
• $172,223
Major Journal Packages via UTSDLC
• Science Direct (Elsevier)
– UTSW, UTSA, UTMB, UTMDA - $0.70-$1.49/jnl/std
– UTH-Houston - $0.31/jnl/std
– BCM + UTH-Houston - $0.37/jnl/std
• Springer Link
– UTSW, UTSA, UTMB, UTMDA - $0.62-$1.02/jnl/std
– UTH-Houston - $0.32/jnl/std
– BCM + UTH-Houston - $0.38/jnl/std
• Wiley Online
– UTSW, UTSA, UTMB, UTMDA - $0.56-$1.07/jnl/std
– UTH-Houston - $0.46/jnl/std
– BCM + UTH-Houston - $0.56/jnl/std
• Without The TMC Library, UTH costs would rise to that of the other
UT institutions and BCM would likely not have access to the
UTSDLC.
Science Direct via UTSDLC
• UTSW
– $720,346/2066stds/234jnls = $348/std/pk or $1.49/std/jnl
• UTSA
– $436,414/3022stds/207jnls = $144/std/pk or $0.70/std/jnl
• UTMB
– $538,661/2437stds/230jnls = $221/std/pk or $0.96/std/jnl
• UT MDA
– $299,251/2221stds/104jnls = $134/std/pk or $1.30/std/jnl
• UTH-Houston
– $228,241/2322stds/322jnls = $98/std/pk or $0.31/std/jnl
• BCM + UTH
– $456,482/3811stds/322jnls = $119/std/pk or $0.37/std/jnl
• Through The TMC Library, BCM and UTH are getting the
largest number of journals at the lowest price.
Vendor Direct Purchases
• Journals – Science Online (AAAS), Science Translational
Medicine (AAAS), Blood (ASH), NEJM (MMS), JBC (ASB),
AJP-7 title package (APS)
• TMC Library Price
– Total: $75,005
– BCM share: $23,749 (37.15%)
– UTHSCH share: $20,631 (33.96%)
• Stand Alone Price
– BCM ( 8 sites): $38,490
– UTHSCH (6 schools): $38,940
• Estimated Savings through TMC Library
– BCM: $14,740 (38.3%)
– UTHSCH: $18,308 (47.8%)
FULL TEXT JOURNAL DOWNLOADS FY 2012
Basic Science Journals
Nature
Cell
Science
J. of Bio. Chem.
PNAS
J. of NeuroSci.
Cancer Research
Nature Genetics
66,428
39,652
38,390
33,507
29,738
19,132
16,095
14,416
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20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
100,000
Clinical Science Journals
NEJM
Circulation
The Lancet
JAMA
Neuron
Blood
Nat. Med.
Pediatrics
86,406
26,407
18,743
17,931
16,095
15,889
14,337
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Top 10 Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Journals__JCR Impact Factor
The journal Impact Factor is the average number of times articles (from a specific journal)
published in the past two years, have been cited in the JCR report year.
Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the report year by the total
number of articles published in the two previous years.
Title
ISSN
2011 Cites
Impact
Factor
ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOCHEMISTRY
0066-4154
18,684
34.317
CELL
0092-8674
171,297
32.403
NATURE MEDICINE
1078-8956
54,228
22.462
NATURE CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
1552-4450
9,001
14.69
MOLECULAR CELL
1097-2765
44,493
14.178
MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY
1359-4184
11,679
13.668
GENOME RESEARCH
1088-9051
24,988
13.608
NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR
BIOLOGY
1545-9993
22,401
12.712
ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA. Section D.
Biological crystallography
0907-4449
12,770
12.619
PLOS Biology
1545-7885
20,579
11.452
Top 10 Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Journals
by SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
A measure of journal’s impact, influence or prestige. Expresses the average
number of weighted citations received in a selected year by the documents
published in the journal in the three previous years.
Title
SJR
Total
Total Docs. Docs.
Total Cites Rec'd
Published Published by Journal Docs.
H index
in 2011 2008-2010
2008-2010
Annual Review of Biochemistry
23.856
202
42
94
3,209
Cell
19.779
503
501
1,579
34,787
Annual Review of Genetics
16.628
123
20
73
1,675
Annual Review of Plant Biology
14.74
152
23
83
2,646
Physiological Reviews
13.897
217
35
110
3,319
Cancer Cell
Annual Review of Cell and
Developmental Biology
12.504
175
173
428
6,967
12.378
149
30
81
1,303
Cell Stem Cell
11.623
85
184
577
8,472
Annual Review of Biophysics
11.204
105
18
71
1,232
Molecular Cell
11.16
250
380
1,113
13,341
H (Hirsch) index = attempts to measure both the productivity and impact
of the published work of a scientist or scholar.
SELECTION/CANCELLATION CRITERIA
Metric Category
COUNTER JR1 reports (full text articles) and
Turnaways over last 3 years
Source
Rank
Serials Librarian
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Price increases over last 3 years
Serials Librarian
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Peer-reviewed
Number of articles by TMC authors published
in journal over last 5 years
Serials Librarian
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Scopus
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JCR Factor and SJR Factor
JCR and SCImago
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Scopus
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Serials Librarian
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Scopus
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Subject discipline collection count
Serials Librarian
9
Specialty or niche discipline
Serials Librarian
10
TMC institutional authorship in Scopus (# of authors)
Cost Per Use
Number of articles cited over last 5 years
InterLibrary Loan transactions over last 3 years
Circulation/Transaction History
for print
PC/ILL
11
Analyzer
12
Print years held for archival content pre-1995
OPAC
13
Major Databases
PubMed
AccessMedicine
MD Consult
RefWorks
Scopus
Stat!Ref
Cochrane Library
DynaMed
Exam Master (USMLE)
Journal Citation Reports
(JCR)
OVID Medline
Micromedex
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Nursing Reference Center
Listed here are direct links to the Major Databases offered through
The TMC Library.
FY 2012 DATABASES
Vendor
Access Medicine
CINAHL
User Count
1,933
4,763
DynaMed
MD Consult
Scopus
1,197
4,705
4,512
Stat!Ref
2,409
THE TMC LIBRARY HOME PAGE
http://www.library.tmc.edu/
Off-site usage requires remote access log on
Interlibrary Loan Service
• Retrieval of articles not available through the Library’s current
subscriptions are now available free of charge for TMC members via
the ILL service. Articles are obtained from other Libraries or (for
older articles) from our own Library.
• You need a library card (Call 713-799-7147 or go to
ras.check@exch.library.tmc.edu)
• Then go to home page and then click on ILL.
• First time users need to register with user name and password.
• Then fill out information about the article – title, authors, volume,
year, etc.
• You will receive an email once the article is available for you to go
back to the ILL site to view or download the article.
The TMC Library Web Site
New Look
The TMC Library Web Site
New Look
The TMC Library Web Site
New Look
Key Messages
• We want to do a great job giving you what you need
from your Library.
• The Library can come to you if you can’t come to us.
Key Messages
• Digital Commons @ the Texas Medical Center
– a digital collection with the ability to bring
together all the scholarly work from TMC faculty,
researchers and students into one central location
to be preserved and shared.
Key Messages
• We provide easy access to the best available
biomedical literature to support research, clinical
care, grant writing, teaching and scholarly projects.
• Remote access log in:
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Authenticates our authorized users—license requirement
Provides usage stats by institution—user request
Required by our Library Board
For convenience, needs to be done only once,
by keeping your browser window open
Key Messages
• The renovated Library will be a great place for
collaborative science. Researchers across the
TMC will be able to meet on common ground
and work together in a shared space to solve
research problems.
Value of the Library
• There’s no substitute for a good library.
• Good libraries change the world. Google just
borrowed a good idea.
• Google may give you 10,000 answers, but the library
will give you the one good answer you need.
• The TMC Library is your Library. We help you achieve
great things.
THE PLACE
People, Location, Access, Collaboration and Education