Over the past few years we have had to reduce our Stat!Ref
subscriptions due to important resources such as McGraw-Hill content and the
American Psychiatric Association’s DSM being pulled by the publishers. As
publishers were removing their content, Stat!Ref made a policy change and no
longer gave us title by title pricing. Their pricing system changed to a
weighted system, so the more resources you added, the more competitive their
price was.
Over the years usage has decreased and it was noticed that we had
duplicate coverage for many of the resources that were being used in Stat!Ref.
As a result, we were no longer adding to Stat!Ref and instead were cancelling
individual titles due to overlap. Because of the weighted system, we were not
seeing the reduction in costs that one would expect. As a result, we have
decided to cancel Stat!Ref as of July 2014 and use that money to purchase resources
that are not duplicated elsewhere and that will be used more frequently.
If you have used “The Review of Natural Products” which was
available in Stat!Ref , you can now use Natural Standard.
Natural Standard is available on the library’s Electronic
Resources page. It provides evidence-based information about complementary and
alternative medicine including dietary supplements and integrative therapies.
Grades reflect the level of available scientific data for or against the use of
each therapy for a specific medical condition.
If you used “AHFS Drug Information” in Stat!Ref, this
resource is embedded throughout
Lexi-Comp.
Lexi-Comp is also available from the library’s Electronic Resources page.
Simply enter the drug name to pull up a list of your options and select the
AHFS DI link.
If you have any questions or concerns about Stat!Ref
content, please contact the library at 909-469-5323 ask for Reference or by email at
reference@westernu.edu.
