2026 Media Kit

What is Doody's?

Thousands of librarians around the world rely on the comprehensive bibliographic and evaluative information in our all-inclusive database of health sciences books to help guide their collection development decisions. Further, because dozens of publishers and book intermediaries license our content, Doody’s reviews are consulted by tens of thousands of health and information professionals worldwide. Our product line of information resources, recognized worldwide by health sciences librarians, includes:

Doody’s Review Service® (DRS)

Doody’s Core Titles® (DCT)

Doody’s Collection Development Monthly® (DCDM)

Doody’s Special Topics Lists (DSTL)

With its vast network of participating publishers, expert reviewers, subscribing libraries, licensing partners, and advertisers, coupled with an efficient technical infrastructure, Doody Enterprises produces timely and accurate publications and is extraordinarily responsive to its customers and partners.

Why Promote With Doody's?

As the premier publisher of expert reviews of newly-published books in the health sciences, Doody Enterprises connects health information providers with librarians around the world who control the health sciences collection development budgets of their libraries. Our e-mail newsletters have open rates significantly higher than the industry norm and our websites generate and sustain traffic demonstrating that Doody’s Review Service® and Doody’s Core Titles® are tools librarians depend upon and have integrated into their workflow.

Doody's Review Service® (DRS)

Doody’s flagship product, DRS, premiered in 1993 as a bimonthly print journal, and was converted into an online newsletter and website in 1995. DRS subscribers enjoy access to Doody’s comprehensive database of bibliographic, descriptive, and evaluative information on 225,000 titles across 140+ health sciences specialties, including expert reviews of more than 47,300 titles. Our most comprehensive product, DRS hosts 546 librarian subscribers. Most are responsible for collection development at a major academic medical center or teaching hospital. The DRS subscribers are our power users. DRS subscribers receive a weekly e-mail newsletter every Friday, customized to their information interests. Over the most recent 12-month period, subscribers opened that weekly e-mail 44.7% of the time. Further, those 546 subscribers accounted for 9,717 page views/month on average over the last 12 months. Subscribers have clearly integrated DRS into their collection development duties. You can check out the public pages of DRS, along with the space ads and Publisher Spotlight ads HERE.

Doody's Core Titles® (DCT)

The first edition of DCT was published in December 2004, and a new edition has been published every year since. Each edition of DCT features approximately 2,400 unique core titles in 120+ specialties in the health sciences, as determined by a volunteer group of 200+ content experts and medical librarians. Published in both a Basic and Premium version, DCT’s low price point has attracted librarian subscribers from around the world who are responsible for collections in health sciences specialties. These librarians come from large academic medical centers, teaching hospitals, nursing schools, and community colleges with students in the associated health professions. DCT is Doody’s most widely-distributed product globally. The DCT designation on a title virtually ensures health sciences librarians will seriously consider purchasing it for their collections. DCT subscribers average 6,425 page views at the DCT website every month. To view the website banner, footer, and sidebar ads, along with three Publisher Spotlights per month, click HERE.

Doody's Collection Development Monthly® (DCDM)

Debuted in 2014, DCDM is Doody’s collection development blog with a monthly newsletter. DCDM features original expert reviews of major digital databases, profiles of prominent medical librarians, profiles of our Editorial Review Group Chairs and expert reviewers, short histories of participating publishers, and the publishing activity over the last 12 months in the various specialty areas we cover. With a newsletter published monthly to a circulation base of more than 2,700+ active librarians, DCDM has demonstrated its value with a 26.1% open rate and impressive clicks on the banner, footer, sidebar, and Publisher Spotlight ads. To sample these advertising opportunities and review the current and previous months’ articles, visit HERE.

Advertising Opportunities

Space Ads

All space ads are sold by the quarter in the following increments: one quarter, two quarters, or all 12 months. Space ads are ideal for featuring journals, platforms, and series.

Banner Ads

Advertisers can purchase an exclusive banner on the DRS, DCT, and DCDM newsletters and one of 3 rotating ads on all three websites.

Footer Ads

Advertisers can purchase an exclusive footer on the DRS, DCT, and DCDM newsletters and on the DCT and DCDM websites. Two rotating footers are available on the DRS website.

Sidebar Ads

Sidebar ads are sold on just the DCT and DCDM platforms and appear simultaneously on the newsletter and website. Up to 4 sidebar ads can appear at any given time on the DCT platform and up to 3 sidebars can appear on the DCDM platform.

Publisher Spotlights

Publisher Spotlights are sold on DRS and DCT with the following provisions:

DRS Pub Spotlight

Up to 2 Publisher Spotlights are sold per week on the DRS newsletter and website. A third Publisher Spotlight can be included for an increased cost.

DCT Pub Spotlight

The DCT newsletter and website feature up to three Publisher Spotlights per month. DCT Publisher Spotlights may feature ANY book title regardless of its selection for DCT.

Librarian Announcement

Librarian Announcements are available by the month. Advertisers supply a headline, 100 words of copy, and a link to a landing page of their choice. The announcements appear “above the fold” in the DRS weekly e-mail published every Friday of the month and in the DCT monthly e-mail published the second Tuesday of the month. Circulation ranges from 7,523 to 8,617, depending on the number of Fridays in the month.

eBlasts

With the high open rates of all Doody’s e-mails, advertisers often ask if they can rent our mailing list. We don’t rent our mailing list in order to protect the open rates. But once every 3 weeks or so, we allow advertisers to provide us with their original html message which we mail to our 2,424 subscribers who have opted into these eBlasts.

The Librarian Announcements and eBlasts sell out very quickly every year. Advertisers interested in reserving either a Librarian Announcement or an eBlast should do so in August in order to secure a spot for the following year.

DCDM Product Showcase

Product Showcase is the latest promotional opportunity in the Doody’s Collection Development Monthly blog and newsletter, featuring two Product Showcases per month. Advertisers provide a link to drive our readers to a landing page on the advertiser’s website with original content describing a major publication or digital resource with a headline, an image, and a full page of copy. Alternatively, advertisers may embed a video for which the thumbnail serves as the image.

Advertisers should structure the content to answer this question: what problem does this product solve for the end user and for the librarian who will be providing it to the end user?

Other Ways to Engage

Whether you are interested in licensing your Doody reviews or star ratings, or connecting our database with your ebook platform, Doody's has a variety of licensing opportunities available. Learn more HERE.

Pricing and Specifications

Packages & Discounts

Packages

Doody's Core Partner Package: $19,495 (save $1,300 on below prices)

2 eBlasts: $7,900
2 DCT Sidebars (2 quarters): $2,565
2 DCDM Sidebars (2 quarters): $1,890
2 DRS Newsletter Banners (2 quarters): $1,440
2 Librarian Announcements: $7,000
Ideal for partners who want a cross-platform, multi-dimensional promotional experience with the ability to spread promotions out across the year.

Content Launch Accelerator Package: $9,745 (save $875 on below prices)

1 eBlast: $3,950
1 Librarian Announcement: $3,500
1 DCT Sidebar (1 quarter): $1,425
1 DRS Website Banner (1 quarter): $950
1 DCDM Product Showcase: $795
Ideal for partners who want to saturate a specific message over a set period of time. Great for product launches or updates, new editions, and conference attendance.

Book Publisher Growth Package: $4,995 (save $315 on below prices)

6 DCT Publisher Spotlights: $2,970 + 12 DRS Publisher Spotlights: $2,340
Ideal for partners who enjoy promoting single titles as they are published or as they receive Doody’s reviews.

Web Visibility Package: $2,026 (save $399 on below prices)

1 DCT Website Banner (1 quarter): $950
1 DRS Website Banner (1 quarter): $950
1 DCDM Website Banner (1 quarter): $525
Ideal for partners who want to foster strong brand awareness with the greatest flexibility for message penetration.

A La Carte Incentives + Add Ons (includes Packages)

Level Up

Buy a Newsletter or Website Banner on any platform, get a Footer in that same vehicle for 50% off. (They do not need to be in the same quarter.)

Enhance

Add a DCDM Product Showcase to your Lib Ann for just $495 (typically $795) in the month it runs.

Maximize

Purchase an eBlast and save an additional 10% on any space ad purchase that isn’t already part of a Combo/Package. Can be stacked (e.g. 2 eBlasts = 20% off; maximum 20% discount) and can be combined with other Add Ons and Combos/Packages.

Snooze Button

Automatically save 10% when you purchase a space ad for two quarters or 15% when you buy it for the full year (already included in Combo/Package pricing).

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