[Eril-l] Academic Library resources behind a firewall

Tue Jan 2 14:22:30 PST 2024

Hi,

In the academic health sciences world, one challenge is the relationship between affiliated hospitals and academic libraries. In some cases, the titles (e-books, e-journals) licensed by hospitals might be listed in the online catalog hosted by the academic library, but with restrictions notes. Eg. x hospital access only, or on-site access only...

One argument for a community college might be your mission and who funds you. Are you open to the public? If so, then a public facing catalog that lists your holdings is a good public relations gesture, even if access is only on-site or to tuition paying students...Also, some community college libraries use shared catalogs through their state consortia, and that is needed for interlibrary cooperation...

But yes, you'd have to poll your peers to see how intranets are in use at other community colleges: others may use the intranet as "dashboards" for faculty and staff, eg:
Information for Faculty and Staff | Northern Virginia Community College (nvcc.edu)<https://www.nvcc.edu/info-for/faculty-staff/index.html>

Good luck!

Ramune Kubilius, MALS, AHIP-D
Collection Development / Special Projects Librarian
Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

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Thanks very much!  I am also interested into whether academic libraries might do this also.
But for certain, this will help me see how it is done in action.   Being a community college Librarian , I am sad that we might not be visible to the community.  But I will know more when the web site redesign is finished.

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Jackson State Community College
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Hi,

As far as I know, hospital libraries do exactly this or a variation of this often. The librarians may even list the path in their e-mail signature lines, eg. Visit the Library online at:  http://portal2/sites...Library<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/portal2/sites...Library__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!UpdJWUPqfwapY2-kBeuDG2JWjYw18gHlYLU0TKwDEiMpI2uLCA9p9sr3L7Vqwp7p__Ec_VrVBg-SKkhKMSLVTI0fLCjV$>, etc...
Some of the hospital and research center libraries have web sites that provide instructions, 2 examples:

--Northwell Health: https://professionals.northwell.edu/continuing-professional-education/libraries/about-us<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https*3a*2f*2fprofessionals.northwell.edu*2fcontinuing-professional-education*2flibraries*2fabout-us&c=E,1,Wvf6pRI7vDqpAcr5bUwP4JqteDYs8WDGWPq0hNIVKDik6JuUAhUE38DpDdtIU7lY5gOA18q_3knZMmQrRXtmi6EGshyFhvkD5PjG5BBLafnXWIafBNcC2QWF&typo=1__;JSUlJSUl!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!UpdJWUPqfwapY2-kBeuDG2JWjYw18gHlYLU0TKwDEiMpI2uLCA9p9sr3L7Vqwp7p__Ec_VrVBg-SKkhKMSLVTN_a-w4Y$>
Excerpt: Electronic Medical Information Library
Accessible through the Northwell Intranet, the Electronic Medical Information Library (EMIL) enables staff throughout the health system to access a comprehensive suite of databases, e-journals, e-textbooks and reference services, both on campus and remotely, from one single platform. The EMIL initiative was funded by an information systems grant from the National Library of Medicine.

--VA: VHA National Desktop Library Home (va.gov)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.va.gov/library/__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!UpdJWUPqfwapY2-kBeuDG2JWjYw18gHlYLU0TKwDEiMpI2uLCA9p9sr3L7Vqwp7p__Ec_VrVBg-SKkhKMSLVTOQF5bEx$>
Excerpt: The VHA National Desktop Library is an online medical library available to staff VA-wide that provides full-text access to clinical textbooks, journals and databases. You are now on an internet site, but some of the resources in the Desktop Library will link to sites that are on the VA intranet. To access those, you will have to log into your remote account (VPN) or be on the VA network.

Corporate libraries might do something similar as well.

Good luck!

Ramune Kubilius, MALS, AHIP-D
Collection Development / Special Projects Librarian
Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

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Hello.  Do you know any library whose web page doesn't feature its electronic resources on its home page but has them hidden in an intranet?  In other words, someone using the home page would not be able to see the databases but would have to put in authentication to even get to them from a link.  The same thing for the online catalog.   Thanks.

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Jackson State Community College
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