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THE EDUSERV CHEST DATA MESSENGER
3rd February 2006 URL:http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/
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a) Update on Negotiations for Biomedical Products (Ovid and EBSCO)
b) New Release of Engineering Village 2
c) Free Resource From EBSCO
d) STAT!Ref - Eduserv Chest Needs Your Help
e) Chest Office Closed 13th February
f) Latest Data Wishes
a) Update on negotiations for Biomedical products (Ovid and EBSCO)
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Eduserv Chest will shortly be concluding agreements for biomedical
products with both Ovid and EBSCO. We hope to agree pricing for each
offering in the very near future. Look out for more information soon!
The offering from Ovid will be a package comprising:
Medline
CINAHL (20 concurrent users)
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Nursing & Allied Health Journals: a full
text archive of 160 nursing and allied health journals Ovid Links
Package providing links to 800 journals
Other products available through the Ovid BioMed Agreement will be: AMED
British Nursing Index (BNI) EBMR Global Health HMIC Inspec Biomedical
Technology (for academic medical facilities and teaching hospitals only)
A selection from Journals@Ovid A selection from Books@Ovid
The Ovid BioMed Agreement will be a 2 year agreement to 31st December
2007.
The offering from EBSCO has the options for non full text and full text
and comprises: Medline / Medline with Full Text
CINAHL / CINAHL Full Text (Pre CINAHL included) (unlimited access
available) CINAHL Plus / CINAHL Plus Full Text (Pre CINAHL included)
(unlimited access available) SPORTDiscus / SPORTDiscus with Full Text
(unlimited access available) AMED Cochrane Collection Global Health
Health Library Health Source Nursing Academic Edition
This will be a three year Agreement. The Full Text Medline, CINAHL and
SPORTDiscus will have unique content and no embargo. Medline Full Text
contains cover to cover full text for 1,176 journal indexed in Medline
and includes The Lancet and Kidney International. It has large PDF
backfiles for many journals. CINAHL Full Text contains cover to cover
full text for 504 journals indexed in CINAHL and includes the British
Journal of Nursing, RN, and British Journal of Midwifery. Full details,
including a comparison chart showing the differences between the
versions of CINAHL, may be found at
http://www.epnet.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=170
SPORTDiscus Full Text contains cover to cover full text for 401 journal
indexed in SPORTDiscus and includes the Human Kinetics Journals.
Details of the products covered in the offering from EBSCO may be found
at http://www.epnet.com/thisMarket.php?marketID=1 (although information
about Medline Full Text and SPORTDiscus Full Text is not yet available
on the EBSCO Web site).
b) New Release of Engineering Village 2
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On February 1, 2006 a new release of Engineering Village 2 went live on
the platform. The changes related to the enhancements should not impact
core functionality of the product but they are improvements to features
on the platform. These product enhancements include:
Search Facets Added:
Ei has included more facet categories to enable users to easily refine
their search results even further. The categories to be added to the
existing facets within our bibliographic databases Compendex, Inspec and
NTIS are:
Author Affiliation- View the top institutions publishing in the subject
searched
Country (Author Country of Origin)- Isolate one or more countries and
focus your search.
More De-duplication Options:
Ei has improved the functionality of Engineering Village 2's
De-duplication feature. This new functionality allows the researcher to
see the total number of found records in a search, how many records are
found in each database, and how many records were removed. Users will
have the ability to choose the priority of the database when
de-duplicating records.
Ei Patents on Engineering Village 2:
Ei Patents is an exciting new product that is now available for
subscription on the Engineering Village 2 platform. By adding this
product to your suite of Engineering Village 2 offerings, you can
provide your engineering research community access to over 80% more
technical information that is not available in traditional bibliographic
databases. Ei Patents is designed to enhance students' and researchers'
ability to conduct searchers that encompass a more complete view of the
scientific and technical literature in their area of interest. Ei
Patents combines patents, bibliographic data sources and Engineering
Village 2's intelligence tools providing a more meaningful base of
scientific and technical knowledge not available with free web patent
searching tools.
To learn more about these product enhancements, please visit the article
in the latest issue of the Ei Update What's New.
<http://www.ei.org/eiupdate/jan06_whats_new/index.html>
To receive a live, web-based demonstration of these new product
features, please contact EI at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
Ei Training Manager, Gali Halevi will provide an online guided tour of
the product, detail the available options, and answer any questions you
may have. Demonstration sessions are approximately 30 minutes and free
of charge for all Engineering Village 2 customers and users.
As always, questions and concerns are welcome and are to be directed to
Ei Customer Support at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> or please
call +1 800 221 1044.
Details of the Eduserv Chest agreement for this product can be found on
our website. For HE sites please look here
<http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/datasets/ev2-compendex/overview.html>
while details of the agreement for FE sites can be found here
<http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/datasets/ei-fe/overview.html>
c) Free Resource From EBSCO
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EBSCO Publishing is making available the 'Library, Information Science &
Technology Abstracts' (LISTA) database as a free resource to anyone
interested in libraries and information management. This bibliographic
database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship,
classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information
retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost
platform, LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research
reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it
is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of
information science. This resource is freely available at
<www.libraryresearch.com> and it can also be added to your EBSCOHost
profile if you subscribe to other EBSCO databases. Please contact Chris
Atkinson <mailto:[log in to unmask]> if you would like this to be
added.
d) Eduserv Chest Needs Your Help
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Eduserv Chest is currently looking at products which may be of interest
to universities and their affiliated NHS partners. We are beginning
negotiations for the renewal of the Agreement for STAT!Ref, the
electronic Medical Library, (current agreement period ends on 31st July
this year) and need to develop a pricing model which will benefit
academic institutions and their NHS partners. To this end, we need to
establish which universities have affiliated sites, how many and their
sizes (total size and potential number of users of electronic
resources). We would therefore ask you to email the Eduserv Chest
helpdesk <mailto:[log in to unmask]> with:
The name of your institution;
Names of affiliated sites - and their legal status and relationship to
the academic institution;
Total numbers in affiliated sites;
Potential number of users in each.
New STAT!Ref Agreement
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The make-up of the STAT!Ref Agreement may change depending on the
requirements of potential licensees. One of the options we are
considering is the ability to licence by discipline. To see a current
list of STAT!Ref resources by discipline please go to
<http://www.statref.com/PDFs/ResourcebyDiscipline.pdf> The full list of
titles, now including the Oxford textbooks, is available at
<http://www.statref.com/ourproducts/libraries/onlineTitles.htm>
If you are interested in particular areas or even particular titles
which may be grouped to form a collection please contact the Chest
Helpdesk with your ideas/wishes.
e) Chest Office Closed 13th February
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Eduserv Chest is to have a new Back-Office system which will enable us
to streamline many of our administrative activities, and to better-serve
the community.
The Chest Office will be closed on 13th February for one day for staff
Training. We would like to apologise for this inconvenience and assure
all our customers that we will return all voicemails or emails, that are
received in the office on that day, as soon as possible.
f) Latest Data Wishes
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The following is a list of the latest Data Wishes to appear on the
Eduserv Chest web site. If you would like to add your wish please go to
<http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/future-agreements/wishform.html> or to
view the complete Data Wishlist go to
<http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/future-agreements/wishes/data.html>
ABI Inform
<http://www.proquest.co.uk/>
5 Wishes to Date
British Standards Online
<http://www.bsi-global.com/index.xalter>
41 Wishes to Date
Factiva
<http://www.factiva.com/>
3 Wishes to Date
IEEE All Periodicals package
<http://www.ieee.org/portal/index.jsp?pageID=home>
6 Wishes to Date
International Index to the Performing Arts
<http://iipaft.chadwyck.com/public?XXrequest=/home>
10 Wishes to Date
MLA International Bibliography
<http://www.mla.org/>
16 Wishes to Date
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