Screening scientific literature for the purpose of detecting adverse side effects of drugs is burdensome, yet essential. The discovery and retrieval of full-text journal articles is a necessary part of this process. Cursory screening of abstracts has been used to determine which journal articles require full-text reviews. And transactional purchases have historically been the only option for accessing the full-text for non-subscribed content when cursory reviews lead to in-depth review requirements. In February 2016, a new full-text article rental program was introduced to the drug safety market with the potential to enable a deeper screening of scientific journal content. In this session, Reprints Desk will present information related to new full-text article rentals, including an overview of how article rentals work and time-saving workflow options.

1. Improving The Pharmacovigilance
Literature Screening Process
How New Content Licensing Options Enable Reviews Beyond The Abstract
Peter Derycz, CEO & President, Reprints Desk, Inc.
ICIC 2016 Conference, Heidelberg, October 17th-18th

2. • Pharmacovigilance Screening
• Screening by Acquisition
• Screening by Rental
• How Rental Works
• Summary

3. Pharmacovigilance Screening
• In 50% of cases, drug safety managers are unsure if documents are relevant
• In 30% of cases, documents are regarded as irrelevant after the purchase
• Determining relevance based on abstracts is prone to mistakes

4.  Publisher Subscriptions
 Pay-Per-View Tokens
 Full-Text Document Delivery
 Price EUR 35-50 per document
The Old Way: Screening By Acquisition

5. Lower Costs: 50% Savings With Rentals
Researchers
don’t always know which
papers they need
Copyright is a
barrier to evaluating the
importance of an article
Resulting in
costly purchases and
less budget for critical articles

6. The New Way: Screening By Content Rental
 Rental prices are EUR 10-25 per document
 Upgrade to PDF purchase at any time
 Rental fee is fully applied to purchase price
 Rental will be delivered within minutes
 Screen more full-text for the same budget
 Make better purchasing decisions

7. How Does Content Rental Work?

8. Document Rentals – Online Order Form

9. Document Rentals – Article Galaxy Widget
Pulls in free web content, plus will
recognize any e-journal subscriptions you
may have purchased
Low cost purchase
options for external
content, e.g. rental
price here is
$ 15.50 for three
days

10. Document Rentals – Article Viewer
72 hour
counter
Upgrade to
a PDF
Purchase
Navigation Options

11. Document Rentals – PDF Purchase Upgrade

12. Limitations of Content Rental
 Document readable in browser only
 Can not be printed, saved or annotated
 Rental available for 3 days
 2 weeks to start rental
 Not all documents are available as rental

13. Advantages for Pharmacovigilance Screening
 Improved literature screening – fewer oversights of adverse effects
 Cost savings – 10% less budget for 20% fewer documents purchased
 No risk – costs for rentals can be fully applied to purchase at any time
 Integrated workflows - rental availability right at the point of discovery
 Instant upgrade - native PDFs delivered within minutes

14. Questions