Springer Advisory Summit

Springer invited a number of UK academic librarians to spend the day sharing views. A briefing on company strategy was followed by candid discussions e.g. taking eBooks to complete adoption, licensing, Open Access and Author Pays. Launching innovative products and purchase decision-making in our present financial climate could put publishers in a hard place?

OvidSP

Some highlights from our JIBS enhancement group meeting with Ovid in February 2008:

The "Ovid Syntax" tab has been changed already, to "Advanced Ovid Search". Customers can select whether "Basic" or "Advanced" should be their institution's default option on opening OvidSP.

We expect some further improvements, an incremental release, to address workflow concerns after Easter 2008. There may also be a more significant release, later in 2008.

There will be more eBooks from Springer, Humana and Oxford University Press. A few Medical Schools have not taken up the free titles available from Ovid through the JISC Observatory project.

New journals in 2008 will include titles from the LWW/AHA "Circulation" stable.

Available only with Ovid - Ovid Nursing Full Text PLUS is a comprehensive and cost-effective single source of premier current journal content from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, combined with a powerful bibliographic tool from the National Library of Medicine.

"Midwifery Digest" is awaiting archival material; it complements "Maternity and infant care". MIDIRS "Informed Choice" leaflets for patients and professionals will also be available.

The Patient (ADIS) is a new holistic, patient-centred magazine.

WAO Journal from the World Allergy Organization will be published online only.

Books at Ovid

Ovid Expands Partnership with Oxford University Press to Increase eBook Offerings


Ovid Now Offers more than 300 OUP Titles for Subscription and Purchase on Books@Ovid.

New York, NY (July 16, 2007) – Ovid Technologies, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health and a global leader in electronic medical, scientific, and academic information research solutions, is pleased to announce that it has expanded its agreement with Oxford University Press (OUP) to provide over 300 OUP medical and health science e-books, including over 80 new titles, for subscription and purchase on the Books@Ovid platform.

DataSalon's Database tool for JISC

If you need to know which ebook platform is searchable by Dewey, or whether any ebook platforms are authenticated by Native Shibboleth this tool gives you, straight from the horse's mouth, the supplier's view of their product, viz

EBL - Ebook Library(EBL)
MyiLibrary
NetLibrary (OCLC)
dawsonERA(Dawsons)
ebrary


the JISC ADAT system is now live
at: Academic Database Assessment Tool

"Free database comparison tool aims to make it easier for university librarians to make informed decisions when subscribing to online resources "

"JISC Collections in partnership with DataSalon Ltd have launched a free online database comparison tool "

Bibliographic databases:
BIOSIS Previews (1969 - present)
British Education Index
British Humanities Index (BHI)
Compendex
EconLit
EMBASE
GEOBASE
Inspec
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
ISI Web of Science
MLA International Bibliography
Scopus
Sociological Abstracts

Full Text Databases:
ABI/INFORM
Business Source Premier