Doody’s Core Titles, the essential collection development tool for health science libraries, represents the collective wisdom of over 200 medical librarians and content experts on the “must-have” titles in 121 health science specialties.

Every year, with the oversight of Doody Enterprises, content specialists and librarians select the book or software titles that represent essential knowledge for library collections that serve health care professionals. Librarian Selectors rate these titles on key collection development criteria and identify essential purchase recommendations for a health science library.

Doody’s Core Titles is available in two versions — Basic and Premium.While DCT Basic is the full title list, with individual scores and Essential Purchase recommendations in 121 specialties, DCT Premium includes all of the DCT Basic features plus full review and star ratings of any titles reviewed in Doody’s Review Service — usually more than 1,000 expert reviews.

Doody’s Core Titles, the essential collection development tool for health science libraries, represents the collective wisdom of over 200 medical librarians and content experts on the “must-have” titles in 121 health science specialties.

Every year, with the oversight of Doody Enterprises, content specialists and librarians select the book or software titles that represent essential knowledge for library collections that serve health care professionals. Librarian Selectors rate these titles on key collection development criteria and identify essential purchase recommendations for a health science library.

Doody’s Core Titles is available in two versions — Basic and Premium.While DCT Basic is the full title list, with individual scores and Essential Purchase recommendations in 121 specialties, DCT Premium includes all of the DCT Basic features plus full review and star ratings of any titles reviewed in Doody’s Review Service — usually more than 1,000 expert reviews.

Doody's Review Service (DRS) is a collection development tool designed for medical librarians who want to optimize their acquisitions budgets. DRS saves countless hours of research and thousands of dollars in poor purchasing decisions. Doody's Review Service features:

• the Web's most comprehensive database of both print and electronic titles in the health sciences
• Doody's timely, expert reviews on the majority of newly published titles
• a Weekly Literature Update providing updates of books added to the database the previous week in a subscriber's profiled areas of interest
• popular Web features including searches of new reviews pre-sorted by specialty, advanced search capabilities to retrieve titles from more than 200,000 entries in the database, and the ability to create, email, print and share custom lists of titles.
• immediate access, at the DRS web site, to the latest edition of Doody's Core Titles, published each year in the Spring.