Apologies for cross posting (although I'm not cross, just
slightly irritated).
With the impending launch of the single search environment on
Jan 10th, am I the only one who is confused about what this
means? Does it mean that the NLH page will now be "official"
and that the NeLH page should no longer be promoted? If not,
when will this be, and will this be announced on both pages?
How long is the grace period before NeLH will be shut down
and redirected to NLH? Have I missed something, or have
there been no communications about any of this (again)?
If the NLH page is to be official from Jan 10th, there are
some glaring omissions on both the public page
(http://www.library.nhs.uk/) and the test page
(http://search.library.nhs.uk/). These pages are
slightly different, but both omit OMNI, Prodigy, BNF, Medical
Dictionaries Search, and links to many other sites such as
MIDIRS, NSF Zones, Healthcare Commission, etc. In addition,
several Specialist Libraries are missing. I heard that the
ones which can't be searched by the SSE were omitted, but
that doesn't make sense to me; surely you should still be
able to link to them whether they can be searched or not.
Finally, my understanding was that the "electronic" in NeLH
was being phased out in favour of the term NLH (although I
realise that NLH is a broader concept than NeLH). However,
one of the "databases" searched by the SSE is NeLH.
Geoff Fleet
Outreach Librarian
Bucks Shared Services, Verney House, Gatehouse Road, Aylesbury, HP19 8ET
Tel: 01296 310106
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