Expected this month a further enhancement to OvidSP.
"... improving the accuracy of highlighting in OvidSP for both Basic Search as well as Advanced Search. Only specific search terms used will be highlighted; these will be highlighted in yellow. Expanded terms will be highlighted in red."
The next release of OvidSP will be live at the end of March!
Customizable Search Fields – Display frequently used fields in a new MyFields tab-you no longer have to select them each time you perform a search since OvidSP will remember them each time you log in. Easily add or remove all other fields-now located in a Show All tab-based on your preferences.
Limit-to-Star-Ranking – Limit searches to generate results with a specific ranking, such as five or four stars. Remember-ranking denotes relevancy; five stars indicate the highest relevancy.
Limit Date to Last – This new “rolling limit”, i.e., “Limit to Last 3 Years”, will allow users to generate the latest results of a given time period, so they can easily identify the most current information.
Set up to receive AutoAlerts on a quarterly basis.
You will be able to select “current” (i.e., “Limit to 2006-Current”), rather than a specific year, as your end date ...
Clin-eguide customers only – You will find a new link from the main search page of all search modes directly to the Clin-eguide homepage.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
downtime in JIBS website 27-29 March
BUCS engineering work over the
weekend 27th - 29th March (http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs/news/news_0020.html)
means that the jibs website (www.jibs.ac.uk) will be unavailable
weekend 27th - 29th March (http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs/news/news_0020.html)
means that the jibs website (www.jibs.ac.uk) will be unavailable
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
CrossFire and Reaxys
The current CrossFire Beilstein and Gmelin agreement which your institution has signed is due to terminate on 31 October 2009. You may also have heard something about a new product from Elsevier called Reaxys.
We would like to tell you about Elsevier's plans for CrossFire and its successor product, Reaxys.
1. In January Elsevier released Reaxys, a new purely web-based application for organic and inorganic chemists and related scientists. Reaxys is based on the combined content of the Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases. It will provide all of the functionality of CrossFire and more. For further information please see http://info.reaxys.com
2. CrossFire will be supported by Elsevier until the end of 2010. Elsevier, JISC Collections and Mimas are in discussions about an extension of the current CrossFire Agreement, and of the Mimas CrossFire service, until end-December 2010. We hope to have further information for your institution about this extension in the near future.
3. Elsevier are currently discussing academic pricing and an agreement for Reaxys with JISC Collections. The Mimas and the JIBS User Group will be evaluating Reaxys and we will pass on feedback to you. Reaxys will be available for trial by your institution - please look out for further details which will be circulated in the near future.
Posted on behalf of Sean Dunne, MIMAS
We would like to tell you about Elsevier's plans for CrossFire and its successor product, Reaxys.
1. In January Elsevier released Reaxys, a new purely web-based application for organic and inorganic chemists and related scientists. Reaxys is based on the combined content of the Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases. It will provide all of the functionality of CrossFire and more. For further information please see http://info.reaxys.com
2. CrossFire will be supported by Elsevier until the end of 2010. Elsevier, JISC Collections and Mimas are in discussions about an extension of the current CrossFire Agreement, and of the Mimas CrossFire service, until end-December 2010. We hope to have further information for your institution about this extension in the near future.
3. Elsevier are currently discussing academic pricing and an agreement for Reaxys with JISC Collections. The Mimas and the JIBS User Group will be evaluating Reaxys and we will pass on feedback to you. Reaxys will be available for trial by your institution - please look out for further details which will be circulated in the near future.
Posted on behalf of Sean Dunne, MIMAS
RAE, REF, Evidence Ltd
As you may have seen in the Times Higher
http://www.evidence.co.uk/index.php?page=24&ArticleID=148
22 Jan 2009 - THE: Jonathan Adams, director of Evidence, responds to comments over the recent Company changes
"Jonathan Adams, director of Evidence Ltd., notes that the recent acquisition of the company by Thomson Reuters creates no issues of conflict of interest with regards to the HEFCE REF Pilot. Evidence, he says, is 'developing different methods of constructing bibliometric indicators for the REF, which will be put to REF expert advisory groups' and not comparing citation databases."
Zoe Corbyn, 'Conflict of interest warning over Evidence sale' THE (22 January 2009, p. 8)
http://www.evidence.co.uk/index.php?page=24&ArticleID=148
22 Jan 2009 - THE: Jonathan Adams, director of Evidence, responds to comments over the recent Company changes
"Jonathan Adams, director of Evidence Ltd., notes that the recent acquisition of the company by Thomson Reuters creates no issues of conflict of interest with regards to the HEFCE REF Pilot. Evidence, he says, is 'developing different methods of constructing bibliometric indicators for the REF, which will be put to REF expert advisory groups' and not comparing citation databases."
Zoe Corbyn, 'Conflict of interest warning over Evidence sale' THE (22 January 2009, p. 8)
You are the REF
Evidence Ltd and ResearchResearch have created a simulation of post-2008 metrics
You are the REF (Research Excellence Framework)
"Everyone's talking about metrics, but how would they work in reality? You are the REF lets you get a feel for the implications. The new REF will be used to allocate research funds for universities and colleges from 2010 and HEFCE has said that the quality metrics it has in mind are research income, citations and PhDs. But how would these be measured, and which would be most important? There's no definitive answer yet. But You are the REF let's you play with the options ...
http://youaretheref.researchresearch.com/
You are the REF (Research Excellence Framework)
"Everyone's talking about metrics, but how would they work in reality? You are the REF lets you get a feel for the implications. The new REF will be used to allocate research funds for universities and colleges from 2010 and HEFCE has said that the quality metrics it has in mind are research income, citations and PhDs. But how would these be measured, and which would be most important? There's no definitive answer yet. But You are the REF let's you play with the options ...
http://youaretheref.researchresearch.com/
OvidSP Boolean
The NOT operator is provided in OvidSP, under MultiField Search dropdown menu, and can be included in Search Statements, but the users in our enhancement group, last November, were evenly divided on whether a "NOT" button should be provided alongside the present: AND, OR
I would be interested to hear/read more views on making the NOT options more conspicuous for OvidSP end-users.
I would be interested to hear/read more views on making the NOT options more conspicuous for OvidSP end-users.
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.
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.
Friday, January 16, 2009
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?
Over two centuries of British Periodicals available free to universities, colleges and research councils in the UK
British Periodicals Collections I and II, which is now available free of charge to colleges, universities and research councils in the UK. JISC Collections’ purchase of the archive on behalf of these institutions means they can enjoy free access via ProQuest’s web platform to nearly 500 periodicals, which represents over 250 years of content that covers the arts, the built environment, humanities and social sciences.
This Collection has been purchased by JISC Collections on behalf of the UK academic community and is part of JISC Collections' UK National Academic Archive. Find out more about how this archive can be used in Higher and Further Education.
Find out more about British Periodicals Collections I and II
This Collection has been purchased by JISC Collections on behalf of the UK academic community and is part of JISC Collections' UK National Academic Archive. Find out more about how this archive can be used in Higher and Further Education.
Find out more about British Periodicals Collections I and II
The Burney Collection of 17th and 18th Century Newspapers – free and available online
The largest single online collection of English news media from the 17th and 18th centuries – the Burney Collection - is now available free of charge for the first time to Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils across the UK.
The Burney Collection offers unique insights into two centuries of history through access to over 1,270 newsbooks, newspapers, pamphlets and a variety of other news materials published in England, Ireland and Scotland, plus papers from British colonies in the Americas and Asia.
Digitised through a partnership between the National Science Foundation and the British Library, and then developed and hosted online by Gale/Cengage Learning, the digital version of the Burney Collection has been purchased in perpetuity by JISC Collections on behalf of the UK academic and research community at a national level following an open and transparent procurement process.
Find out more about the Burney Collection
The Burney Collection offers unique insights into two centuries of history through access to over 1,270 newsbooks, newspapers, pamphlets and a variety of other news materials published in England, Ireland and Scotland, plus papers from British colonies in the Americas and Asia.
Digitised through a partnership between the National Science Foundation and the British Library, and then developed and hosted online by Gale/Cengage Learning, the digital version of the Burney Collection has been purchased in perpetuity by JISC Collections on behalf of the UK academic and research community at a national level following an open and transparent procurement process.
Find out more about the Burney Collection
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