2003
DOI: 10.1108/03055720310512033
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Small but perfectly formed, and uniquely tailored to nurses’ needs: the Royal College of Nursing’s electronic journals service

Abstract: This article examines the way in which the Royal College of Nursing Library and Information Service has made a carefully tailored, purposely small, collection of electronic journals available remotely to its members. It highlights the reasons for, and advantages of, providing a hand-picked collection of journals, and suggests reasons why this approach has been successful.

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“…The only membership organization, at that time, that offered remote e-journal access was the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which had struck a deal with Blackwell Publishing and its own publishing house to give members access to eight general nursing e-journals. 3,4 The RCN has a different membership from that of the RSC, as it has vast numbers of student nurses using its libraries, but this showed it could be done.…”
Section: How We Startedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The only membership organization, at that time, that offered remote e-journal access was the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which had struck a deal with Blackwell Publishing and its own publishing house to give members access to eight general nursing e-journals. 3,4 The RCN has a different membership from that of the RSC, as it has vast numbers of student nurses using its libraries, but this showed it could be done.…”
Section: How We Startedmentioning
confidence: 99%