Skip to Main Content

Health Sciences Library Annual Report (2018-2019): Access Services

Collection Dollars

The chart below separates the overall expenditures between online databases, serials and monographs (both print and electronic): 

Changes to the collection

Summon, the discovery tool accessed via search box on our homepage, was fully implemented. This central search box draws from many sources creating a user friendly and quick search option.​


We added JoVE:

"JoVE Medicine includes methods and experimental approaches for biomedical researchers and clinical medicine, including case studies, clinical procedures, surgeries, clinical trials, and animal models of disease".


We aim to maintain an up-to-date and relevant collection supporting all of our programs. To this end, we undertook the deselection of print materials on the Laurentian campus that were either held electronically or were out of date. Where possible, we donate to Better World Books.

By the numbers

Frequently Used eBooks & eJournals

eResource Usage Rights

All license agreements were reviewed and information about acceptable usage was added to our ejournals and ebooks search tool. Users can verify if an article can be shared, in what media etc. Below is an example entry for the Lancet with the related Terms of Use:

Lancet terms of use arrow Lancet permissions