SilverPlatter retirement

SilverPlatter

There are a few databases which are not migrating to OvidSP, including EINECS Plus, Chem-Bank, OSH-ROM, and RPS e-PIC

Date for retirement of the SilverPlatter platform has not been set, but I expect something mid-year to be announced soon.

Silver Platter databases

"OvidSP offers virtually all of the content available on both Ovid Gateway and our database-only SilverPlatter WebSPIRS platforms. That means you can offer users quick, easy access to nearly 30 databases—focusing on everything from religion and politics to agriculture and life sciences—that were formerly available only on SilverPlatter!"

viz these databases:

Agricultural Economics Database
Animal Production Database
A-V ONLINE (educational audiovisual materials)
Derwent Biotechnology Abstracts
Crop Science Database
EMBASE Alert
EMBASE: Nephrology
EMBASE: Neurosciences
EMBASE: Pollution & Toxicology
EMBASE: Rehabilitation & Physical Medicine
Environmental Science Database
FLUIDEX (fluid engineering)
Forest Science Database
FRANCIS (humanities and social sciences abstracts in French and English)
GEOBASE (geology and geosciences)
GEOBASE GEOGRAPHY
GPO on SilverPlatter (produced by the U.S. Government Printing Office)
Horticulture Science Database
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Inpharma Database
International Political Science Abstracts
Marquis Who's Who (general reference covering finance, industry, technology, science, education, and the arts)
Parasitology Database
PEST-BANK (databank of registered pesticides)
Plant Genetics and Breeding Database
Plant Protection Database
Reactions Database (coverage of adverse drug reactions)
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Soils Science Database
TRANSPORT (produced by the world’s leading transportation research organizations)
TROPAG & RURAL (covers social and economic development in tropical and rural areas)
Veterinary Science Database
World Textiles

"If you have questions or feedback on the new platform, or if you’d like more information on subscribing to one of these databases, please contact your Ovid Account Representative or email: support@ovid.com.

"Regards,

"Wolters Kluwer Health - Ovid

OvidSP new platform 2007

The new platform for Ovid/SilverPlatter is on schedule for release in the final quarter of 2007. The existing platforms will remain available into 2009 so that migration to OvidSP can be scheduled (managed) by customers to suit themselves e.g. before induction of new students, not part way through the academic year.

"the idea is to allow librarians to gain full familiarity with the new platform, and to develop materials, training programmes etc., and potentially go through a full cycle (i.e. up to the new intake in Sept./Oct. 2008) before libraries decide to withdraw access to the current platform(s) "