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

How Does Content Rental Work?

Document Rentals – Online Order Form

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

Document Rentals – Article Viewer

72 hour counter

Upgrade to a PDF Purchase

Navigation Options

Document Rentals – PDF Purchase Upgrade

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

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