ACADEMIC AFFAIRS DIVIS ION Cont’d. University of Technology, Jamaica 14 approximately 88,241 e-books through subscription and direct purchase. While the budget of $38,570,000 for reference books and other media was lower than the allocation of $42,000,000 for the previous year, the amount nevertheless adequately covered the expenditure for textbooks, reference books, electronic books, audio-visual materials, bindery, cargo storage and other expenses related to building the collection. During the year the library purchased a total of 809 new print books and 9,241 e-books. COLINET Symposium One of the main activities for the library during the year was the planning and hosting of the biennial symposium of the College Libraries Information Network (COLINET). COLINET hosted its 11th biennial Symposium under the theme “Libraries: The Hub of Institutional Success”, on Thursday and Friday, February 20 to 21, 2020 at Jewel Runaway Bay Beach & Golf Resort in St. Ann, Jamaica. New Subscriptions and Resources A number of new subscriptions were started during the year, as the library continued to make available to users a wider array of electronic resources. The following were among the new databases subscriptions: SAGE Research Methods Subscription was started in April 2019, and this database supports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process. It contains over 1,000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. The Proquest subscription was upgraded to Proquest One Academic effective August 1, 2019. ProQuest One Academic provides access to the world’s largest curated collection of journals, ebooks, dissertations, news, video and primary sources, all in one place. ProQuest One Academic includes four core multi-disciplinary products – ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library subscription was started in September 2019. ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, and delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. The ACM Digital Library is the most comprehensive collection of full text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology. The West Indian Medical Journal was made an open access resource, so no subscription payment is needed to now access the articles. The West Indian Medical Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific Journal that provides information of relevance to the Caribbean in a wide range of disciplines in or related to the health sciences. It contains original scientific research, reviews, case reports, brief communications, letters, commentaries and medical images. Trial Databases The following new databases were tried by users and library staff in an effort to determine whether full subscriptions to these resources would be necessary. The trial databases were: Routledge Handbooks Online (Trial date – June 24, 2019 – July 23, 2019): Routledge Handbooks Online is an invaluable educational resource bringing together the world’s leading scholars to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research from Routledge, and CRC Press, in the Humanities, Social sciences, Education, Psychology, Engineering, and Built environment. Trial for ProQuest One Academic (Trial date – June 14, 2019 – July 26, 2019): ProQuest One Academic provides access to the world’s largest curated collection of journals, ebooks, dissertations, news, video and primary sources, all in one place. ProQuest One Academic includes four core multi-disciplinary products – ProQuest Central, Academic Complete,
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