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EDINA is pleased to announce the addition of the EconLit, MLA, PAIS and
Ulrich's databases to its bibliographic collection via the popular Ovid
interface. These services are offered to UK and Irish HE and FE
institutions, Research Councils and CHEST associate/affiliate institutions
for subscription from June 1st 2000 to July 31st 2002 under a special
agreement.
Summary information about each database is given below. For further
details and to request a free 30-day institutional trial - AVAILABLE NOW -
of any (or all) of the new services, please refer to
http://edina.ac.uk/news.html or email: [log in to unmask]
As with most EDINA services, access to the four new services is via
personal or shared Athens accounts, and sites wishing to subscribe to these
services must first be registered to use the Athens registration and
authentication system. Refer to http://www.athens.ac.uk/ for details.
Weblinks
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EDINA and Ovid have been developing links to holdings and full-text from
bibiographic databases; the resulting facility is known as 'Weblinks'.
Links are available for nearly all database records, and are accessible
from the page displaying a full record resulting from a database search.
We can provide links that are customized for each subscribing site,
including holdings catalogues or full text services (providing the target
is technically capable of accepting a search request).
For the 30-day free trial we have developed a prototype interface with a
sample list of links, including Edinburgh University Library as an
example of a local Web OPAC. If it is technically possible, your own
library OPAC can be added; details are available on request to
[log in to unmask] .
Further information about EconLit, MLA, PAIS, Ulrich's
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EconLit is produced by the American Economic Association, who index and
abstract more than 550 international economic journals. Source material
includes journal articles, research papers, books, dissertations etc. The
database contains more than 350,000 records and covers subjects from
accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labour, marketing,
demographics, modeling, economic theory, planning, and more. Coverage is
from 1969-present, with approximately 26,000 records added annually.
See http://edina.ac.uk/econlit/
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MLA is Produced by the Modern Language Association of America. The MLA
International Bibliography indexes critical scholarship on literature,
language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage includes journal articles,
series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other
materials. The database includes all records indexed from 1963 to the
present, approximately 1,400,000 records, and is updated ten times a year.
See http://edina.ac.uk/mla/
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PAIS International, produced by the Public Affairs Information Services
Inc., is a bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of
political, social, and public policy issues. More than 1,600 journals and
over 8,000 monographs are indexed each year, as well as other sources.
Updates are monthly. Coverage includes documents published worldwide in
any of six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and
Spanish. The subject headings and abstracts are in English.
See http://edina.ac.uk/pais/
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Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory is a unique, current,
comprehensive and continuously updated source of information on selected
periodicals and serials published in the United States and throughout the
world. It includes annuals, continuations and conference proceedings,
deriving input data from over 80,000 U.S. and foreign serials publishers.
Approximately 47,000 discontinued titles from 1974 onward are included.
The directory gives you complete bibliographic citations and full ordering
information on the major output of international serials publishing.
See http://edina.ac.uk/ulrichs/
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EDINA is a JISC national datacentre, based at the University of Edinburgh,
offering a range of online services for the UK and Irish tertiary education
and research communities.
Ovid Technologies, headquartered in New York, is a leading provider of
electronic information to the scientific, technical and medical markets.
Ovid's powerful software allows users to search over a wide range of
fields, browse fields, map to a list of subject headings, view all subject
headings containing a specific term, and much more.
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Main Library Building, George Square Fax: 0131 650 3308
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