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Dear Mount Sinai Community,

The Library team carefully reviews the use of journals, books, databases and knowledge management tools each year to ensure we have the resources Mount Sinai needs for learning, research and clinical care. There will be a few new or restored resources starting in January as the result of swapping out or cancellation of lesser used resources.

With the financial challenges facing health care, Mount Sinai has reduced the budget to support library resources for 2024. Based on usage data, costs and contract limitations, we made the difficult decision to stop subscribing to the journals and databases listed at the end of this post. This is the initial list of resources that will not be available online to you starting January 1, 2024. During 2024, there will be other resources impacted and we will add those to the list as decisions are made.

We recognize that the loss of immediate online access is an inconvenience, but you can still get the materials you need from the Library by request. Please use our interlibrary loan service (ILL) to request articles you need from any journal at no cost to you. You will typically receive them within 2 business days, rush requesting is available, and we use the data from ILL to make decisions about the need for future subscriptions. If you do not have an ILL account, please register now so that when you need something, you are ready to request it seamlessly.

For the databases and tools, below we identify alternatives that you can use or other locations where you can access the resources. If you have any questions, please contact us at library@mssm.edu.

Hearing from you about how you are impacted by these budget reductions will allow us to prioritize restoring the most needed resources should the budget situation improve. We welcome partnerships with others that may have funds to support subscriptions to titles that we cannot currently afford.

If you are having access issues with resources not on this list, please check the blog post Access to Library Resources Evolves in 2024 to see if your issue is a known problem.

We appreciate your understanding during this challenging time.

Sincerely yours,

Kris Alpi, Associate Dean of Libraries and Information Sciences

New Resources starting January 1, 2024

Scriver’s OMMBID:Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease

Journal additions through swapping

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Arthroscopy
Clinics in Chest Medicine
Gastroenterology
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Journal of Hand Surgery
Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Ophthalmology Glaucoma

Resources stopping / Cancellations as of December 31, 2023

Journals cancelled or swapped

Chem Catalysis (swapped)
Edizioni Minerva Medica
Emergency Medicine Practice
International Angiology
International Journal of Neural Systems
Joule (swapped)
Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Journal of Medical Robotics Research
Journal of Personality Disorders
Journal of Wound Care
One Earth (swapped)
Optics Letters
Physical Review Letters
Psychodynamic Psychiatry
Trends in Chemistry (swapped)

Publishers where we no longer subscribe to all the journals, but renewed the journals you use the most:

DeGruyters (we renewed access to four journals: Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Journal of Perinatal Medicine, and Reviews in the Neurosciences)
IOP Press (we renewed access to Physics in Medicine & Biology)
Karger (we renewed access to eight journals: American Journal of Nephrology, International Archives of Allergy and Immunology, Nephron. Neuroendocrinology, Respiration, Dermatology, Cardiology, Complex Psychiatry
Royal Society of Chemistry (we renewed access to seven journals: Biomaterials Science, Chemical Society Reviews, Chemical Communications, Nanoscale, Lab on a Chip, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Food & Function

Databases and Tools Not Renewed (updated 5/31/24)	Alternative Resources or Access Mechanisms
Alt-Health Watch	Search AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine Database) on the Ovid platform. AMED indexes journals on complementary medicine. Dietary supplement and natural medicine databases are described on our Nutrition and Dietetic Resources guide.
Cochrane Interactive Learning	Systematic review resources and learning opportunities are described on our guide - https://libguides.mssm.edu/sysrev/sysrev
ExamMaster	Access ends July 31, 2024. Other library-provided exam preparation resources are linked on the Interactive Question Banks tab of the USMLE and Board Review Guide. Medical students have additional resources provided by the Department of Medical Education.
GIDEON	CDC Website ; Red Book (pediatric infectious disease diagnosis and treatment) ; or contact us with the specific information you seek.
Health Policy Reference Center	Many free online health policy resources are described on our Public Health Resources guide or contact us with the specific information you seek.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses	We will continue to use ProQuest for graduate students to submit their theses and dissertations and provide online access to Mount Sinai dissertations and theses. What was not renewed was the multi-institutional ProQuest database of theses and dissertations (PQDT). PQDT can be searched onsite at New York Public Library branches. Many dissertations and theses are available online via the degree-granting institution. Visit Open Access Theses and Dissertations or your school of interest. You can also search WorldCat and limit your advanced search to the format "Thesis, Dissertation" and then request to borrow dissertations or theses via interlibrary loan
Reference USA	This database, also known as Reference Solutions, is available online from the New York Public Library with your library barcode and PIN. All Mount Sinai community members are eligible for a New York Public Library card. Contact us if you have questions.
STAT+ News	Access to premium content ended 5/23/2024. A limited selection of STAT News content remains freely available. Mount Sinai providers other news resources described at https://libguides.mssm.edu/newsresources. To maintain access to STAT+ premium content, the company offers individual subscriptions and discounted group plans.

For access issues, please check the list at Access to Library Resources Evolves in 2024.

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