| Pricing tier |
Institution type/description |
1a
Academic
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Primary/secondary school (on site access only) |
1b
Medical |
Private practice office or private clinic |
1c
Medical |
Residency program (independent from larger institution; on site access only) |
1d
Public/
Nonprofit
Government |
General reference public library, museum, or non-profit administrative office (government libraries not having major scientific research programs; on site access only) |
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2a
Academic |
Community, technical, or associates level (US), higher education colleges (UK); institutes of technology (UK/Ireland), hochsule (Germany) |
2b
Academic
|
Undergraduate (baccalaureate) or masters level college/university [non PhD granting; Directory of Higher Education Website (http://www.educause.edu/ir/dheo.html) can help categorize some records through use of the Carnegie classification. Reviewing the institution’s website for evidence of doctoral programs can also be helpful. Most records in this category are U.S.-based, as the vast majority of foreign universities offer doctoral programs. Most Japanese women colleges do not tend to have doctoral programs and apply to this category.] |
2c
Academic
Medical |
Nursing school or allied health training program, seminaries (eg, chiropractic, physical therapy) |
2d
Medical |
Community hospital or clinic [May have a family practice or nursing residency program, but not a major teaching or clinical research facility. For U.S. records, contains institutions listed as minor teaching hospitals or non-teaching hospitals in the reference text Profiles of U.S. Hospitals (Solucient, 2002). These institutions may be loosely affiliated with a university or medical school and may have one or two residency programs (typically a family practice program), but they typically do not have the words “university” or “medical school” in the institution’s name and are not considered major teaching hospitals. These institutions also are not members of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and are not listed on their website directory (www.aamc.org/members/listings/thalpha.htm). For foreign records, contains all hospitals that are not affiliated with a university (no mention of “university” in the name or address fields) or which, after a Google search, are determined to be smaller facilities that are unlikely to have major teaching or research programs. Many foreign facilities do not have websites and may be difficult to categorize with certainty. When in doubt as to a hospital’s size, it was placed in this tier.] |
2e
Public/
Nonprofit
Government |
Health policy or advocacy non-profit office; charitable organization (think tanks, lobbying groups, and quasi-governmental organizations interested in health policy; contains foundations and other organizations that collect/disburse funds for charity or carry out charitable works) |
2f
Public/
Nonprofit
Government |
Independent research library, museums with scientific research (independent from larger institution, single site, stand-alone research library; blood banks) |
2g
Public/
Nonprofit
Government |
Small non-profit or government laboratory (records in this category are limited to a single site, typically have just a handful of research programs, and have a relatively small number of staff (fewer than 200 researchers). Private labs are often attached to a foundation – careful review may be necessary to determine if the foundation actually conducts research at the facility or is merely a charitable organization.) |
2h
Public/
nonprofit |
Professional society or trade union; industry trade association |
2i
Government
|
Local or regional government agency/ministry |
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3a
Academic |
Doctorate-granting research university (Includes academic institutions that offer doctoral programs and or student population up to 20,000. In the U.S., this includes most state universities and other large institutions with national prominence. Directory of Higher Education Website (http://www.educause.edu/ir/dheo.html) can help categorize some records through use of the Carnegie classification. Google search/review of the institution’s website for evidence of doctoral programs can also be helpful. Most foreign records that have the word “university” in the name or address field and which are not hospitals or the university’s medical faculty (equivalent to a U.S. medical school) are also classified here. Germany has smaller private universities and translated web search is required to detect these entries, determine size and degrees offered. Most foreign websites have facts and figures, or FTEs page that clearly state student population.) |
3b
Academic
Medical |
Medical or pharmacy school (Foreign institutions may contain the name of a university and “faculty of medicine” (or foreign-language equivalent) in the title or address. Medical Schools that have student populations exceeding 20,000 or that are a part of universities with student populations exceeding 20,000 belong in 4a.) |
3c
Medical |
Major teaching or research hospital (Medical school-affiliated with population up to 20,000, multiple residency programs. Hospital records in this category consist of institutions listed as major teaching hospitals in the reference text Profiles of U.S. Hospitals (Solucient, 2002). These institutions are affiliated with a university or medical school and have 4 or more residency programs. They may have the words “university” or “medical school” in the institution’s name, and are usually members of the Council of Teaching Hospitals (see the online directory of members at www.aamc.org/members/listings/thalpha.htm). For foreign records; hospitals which have the word “university” are associated with larger universities where the student population exceed 20,000 and thus belong in 4th tier.) |
3d
Academic
Public/
Nonprofit |
Private, nonprofit research institute (Single institution, local campuses; (single institution, local campuses, such as The Scripps Research Institute in the US, the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Germany, Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel) |
| 3e
Corporate
For-profit |
Small for-profit independent company, partnership, or organization (fewer than 50 employees) |
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4a
Academic |
State-wide and other very large academic institutions [Not a consortium or shared digital library (tier 5) but a single organization with separate campuses, or institution, public or private, exceeding a student population of 20,000. Explicitly included are major universities which have attached Medical colleges or teaching hospitals such as Penn State University, University of Minnesota System.] |
4b
Academic
Medical
Public/
Nonprofit |
Private, nonprofit research organization or healthcare network (Private, non-profit research organization or Healthcare network (single institution with regional campuses, such as the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente's California Division, or The Carnegie Institution.) |
4c
Public/
Nonprofit
Government |
Large nonprofit/government research institute (Shared network — such as the NIH or the CDC in the US, NERC in the UK, CISTI in Canada, NIHS in Japan, or the Max Planck Society in Germany. See also 5c, for national government institutions.) |
4d
Corporate
|
Mid-size for-profit organization (Mid-size for-profit organization (single institution with regional campuses, not multi-national — e.g. regional or mid-sized national corporation.) |
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5a
Academic |
Consortia of academic libraries (Includes groups of universities who share access or large state-wide licenses.) |
5b
Medical |
Consortia of medical libraries and affiliated hospitals (Includes groups of medical libraries or hospitals that share access.) |
5c
Medical Public Nonprofit Government |
Group of affiliated labs or regional buying groups, state or national government agency (A group of affiliated labs or regional buying groups, not a single institution / State or national site license (e.g. the NHS Trust in the UK, INSERM in France) |
5d
Corporate |
Large for-profit organization (Multi-national corporation such as Bell Labs, Pfizer, Merck). Includes large institutions, mostly pharmaceutical or biotech companies, which have a presence in several countries and have hundreds or thousands of employees. Companies having public stock listings.) |
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| Z1 |
Uncoded agent subs (Agent/small bookseller records that contain insufficient identifying information. Additional information should be sought from agent.) |
| Z2 |
Insufficient identifying information (Due to cryptic/inadequate record name, language barrier, lack of web information, or lack of an appropriate placement category, no immediate categorization is possible. Must contact records for reclassification for next year.) |
