The National Library of Medicine is extending the coverage area of the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) to include the healthcare response in the Caribbean islands impacted by Hurricane Maria, and those impacted by the earthquake in Mexico. EAI continues to be available to libraries and healthcare responders to those impacted by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
The Emergency Access Initiative is a collaborative partnership between NLM and participating publishers to provide temporary free access to full-text articles from over 650 biomedical serial titles and over 4,000 reference books and online databases to healthcare professionals and libraries affected by disasters. The Emergency Access Initiative serves as a temporary collection replacement and/or supplement for libraries affected by disasters that need to continue to serve medical staff and affiliated users. It is also intended for medical personnel responding to the specified disaster.
EAI is not an open access collection – it is only intended for those affected by the disaster or assisting the affected population. If your library is working with a library or organization involved in relief efforts in affected areas, please let them know of this service.
NLM thanks the participating publishers for their generous support of this initiative: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association, American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, ASM Press, B.C. Decker, BMJ, Cambridge Univeristy Press, EBSCOHost, Elsevier, FA Davis, Mary Ann Liebert, Massachusetts Medical Society, McGraw-Hill, Merck Publishing, Oxford University Press, People’s Medical Publishing House, Springer, Taylor & Francis, University of Chicago Press, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer.
Resources on Hurricanes and Flooding
NLM has several other resources that will be helpful for people working on disaster response:
- Floods (for the general public): https://medlineplus.gov/floods.html
- Hurricanes (for the general public): https://medlineplus.gov/hurricanes.html
- Earthquakes (for the general public): https://medlineplus.gov/earthquakes.html
- Disaster Information Management Research Center (for first responders, healthcare professionals and the public): http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc.html
- International health (for the general public): http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/internationalhealth.html
For questions regarding these resources, please visit NLM Customer Support or call 1.888.346.3656 in the United States, or +1.301.594.5983 internationally.
