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 17 th -18th
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
• Pharmacovigilance Screening
• Screening by Acquisition
• Screening by Rental
• How Rental Works
• Summary
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
Publisher Subscriptions
Pay-Per-View Tokens
Full-Text Document Delivery
Price EUR 35-50 per document
The Old Way: Screening By Acquisition
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
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
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
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
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