What is Read Institutional Edition?

Read Institutional Edition is a subscription-based service that helps libraries keep their communities at the forefront of medical discovery. 

The service is based around Read by QxMD which is a free app that helps clinicians discover and access research that is most relevant to them. Libraries can connect their e-resources to Read in order to improve the experience for their patrons and gain access to tools to support them better. 

What does Institutional Edition mean for clinicians?

• Better paper access - indications when the full-text is available and faster retrieval of the full-text through integration with your library's holdings.
• Improved support - high priority support and proactive upgrades to your proxy integration. 
• Boosted clinical quality improvement - your library and quality improvement teams can disseminate important research that support quality improvement initiatives.

What does Institutional Edition mean for librarians?                                                                           
If you're a librarian and want to join Institutional Edition, click here!

• Access to Analytics: Provides data-driven insights into the educational needs of your medical & health science audience.
  
  • Highlights the usage data of your community.
  • Showcases which journals are being accessed the most and which are being requested for access.
  • Disseminate important research for quality improvement initiatives or to highlight articles published by your faculty or staff.
    
• Provide another avenue for your users to discover and access research.
• More usage of your e-resources and lower cost per use.
• Leverage Read's sharing capabilities to share content copyright-compliantly both internally and externally.  

How Does Read Work?

1. Download Read and create your QxMD account.
2. Setup your Institutional Access with your library account.
3. Click on a paper.
4. The app will work towards getting you access to the paper.
5. Done!

Here's a video that briefly summarizes Read Institutional Edition:

Let your colleagues and librarian(s) know about what Read Institutional Edition can do for you!