JIBS Ovid enhancement group - minutes available

The minutes of the meeting of Ovid enhancement group held 9th July 2010 can be found at:
http://www.jibs.ac.uk/liaison/OVIDSP/minutes.html

National Research Council, Canada

Available from Ovid - NRC Research Press journals

This collection comprises 15 peer reviewed titles encompassing a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines including Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Fisheries, Genetics, Aquatic Sciences and Genomics.

NRC Canada

Ovid

Ovid Gateway transfer date

http://resourcecenter.ovidsp.com/

The OvidSP Resource Center is your destination for all supporting materials and information.


To ensure that customers in every global region will have access to OvidSP on the morning of Monday, February 4th, 2008, all Ovid Gateway customers will be automatically directed to OvidSP on Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 3:30pm EST (8:30pm GMT).

The timing was selected after evaluating worldwide system usage to identify a specific time that minimizes the impact to user workflow and ensures that all users and administrators will be transitioned to the new platform by the morning of Monday, February 4, 2008

After transition, Ovid Web Gateway will no longer be accessible.

OvidSP stats are currently available at https://ovidspstats.ovid.com. You will continue to have access to historical Gateway usage stats at http://ovid-admin.ovid.com/stats2/ after the transition.

Transfer date to OvidSP

"To ensure that customers in every global region will have access to OvidSP on the morning of Monday, February 4th, 2008, all Ovid Gateway customers will be automatically directed to OvidSP on Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 3:30pm EST (8:30pm GMT). "

"The timing was selected after evaluating worldwide system usage to identify a specific time that minimizes the impact to user workflow and ensures that all users and administrators will be transitioned to the new platform by the morning of Monday, February 4, 2008 "

"After transition, Ovid Web Gateway will no longer be accessible. All user settings, jumpstarts, and alerts will remain intact and be fully functional in the new platform (Ovid Web Gateway Jumpstart URLs will automatically re-direct to OvidSP). Please be sure to update your bookmarks to include: http://ovidsp.ovid.com"

"The OvidSP Resource Center is your destination for all supporting materials and information."

"OvidSP stats are currently available at https://ovidspstats.ovid.com. You will continue to have access to historical Gateway usage stats at http://ovid-admin.ovid.com/stats2/ after the transition."

American Medical News (AMA)

"American Medical News is a weekly newspaper for physicians, published by the American Medical Association

"No other single publication covers the same spectrum of medical news

"Directed to physicians in private practice and physicians on hospital and managed care staffs, in military service and on medical faculties

"Non-physician readers include health regulators; legislators and their staffs; staffs of state, county and specialty medical societies; administrators of health programs; and journalists

"Timely and accurate political/regulatory coverage and information on the medical profession, public health, the medical marketplace and practice management. Regular coverage includes such topics as ethics, practice trends and legal issues

"Subscribers to JAMA and the 9 Archives journals can receive AMNews at no additional cost (offer good through year end 2007)

Source: Ovid - Wolters Kluwer

Springer & Humana

I understand the partnership between Ovid (Wolters Kluwer) and Springer provides for more than 800 titles being added to BooksOvid including titles from Humana Press.

All titles will be licensed on purchase or subscription basis.

OvidSP new platform switched on

The new platform from Ovid (Wolters Kluwer Health) is now available, as announced.

The Ovid Gateway shows "Try OvidSP"! and this button takes you to the new platform.

Screenshots and other materials are available on the WWW at the OvidSP Resource Center, for which the username is
resourcecenter
and the password is
ovidsp

http://resourcecenter.ovidsp.com/


"The OvidSP Resource Center is your first stop for all the resources you need to prepare you and your users for launch day and beyond, including:

Training Materials
Product Information (Frequently Asked Questions, Quick Reference Guides, etc.) Image Bank and Screenshots

http://resourcecenter.ovidsp.com/imageBank.html

Order the launch kit online:

http://www.ovid.com/site/trial/ovidsp_launch_kit/index.jsp


See also:
http://www.ovid.com/site/help/ovid-tutorial/index.html

OvidSP launch 25th October

25th October 007

At 12:30 p.m. British Summer Time (11:30 a.m. GMT) you should be able to try the new platform: OVIDSP

Look for the natural language processing Basic Search "tab"

Look for Find Citation, Search Tools, Ovid Syntax "tabs"

Find Citation will also have a "tab", for matching a specific required reference

Truncation symbol: the * is added and will now be recognised as $ and : for Ovid

Institutions using the Ovid Gateway need to schedule a switch to the new platform by 4th February 2008

SilverPlatter customers should prepare to switch over by February 2009

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) "