************************************************************************* CHEST DATA NEWS * CHEST DATA NEWS * CHEST DATA NEWS * CHEST DATA NEWS * C H The CHEST DATA MESSENGER No 91 H E - bringing you news, updates & other snippets E S w/e 15th May 1998 URL: http://www.chest.ac.uk/ S T DATA NEWS * CHEST DATA NEWS * CHEST DATA NEWS * CHEST DATA NEWS * CHEST ************************************************************************* This issue is being sent to: * CHEST HE and FE Site Contacts * CHEST (Ireland) Site Contacts * chest-news: register yourself on chest-news to ensure you keep up to date with all that's going on. * lis-link * lis-sitereps Contents: 1. Biomedical Service - 10% discount on EBMR 2. Inspec 1. Biomedical Service -10% Discount on EBMR if ordered before 25th June ======================================================================= Ovid / CHEST are pleased to announce that Ovid's new Evidence Based Medicine Reviews file is to be made available via the NISS National Biomedical Data Service from August 1998. The Ovid Evidence Based Medicine Reviews file consists of the following databases: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews ------------------------------------------- published by the Cochrane Collaboration, the international organisation dedicated to applying evidence-based-medicine principles to the review of important clinical topics. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews consists of a set of about 500 (currently) documents that are meta-analysis of 'all' the clinical trials performed on a single clinical topic. Currently meta-analyses and protocols are written for 45 topical areas. The Cochrane group also intends to expand areas covered by adding groups to the list. Best Evidence ------------- a database which contains the ACP Journal Club (a publication of the American College of Physicians), and the journal Evidence-Based Medicine (a joint publication of the ACP and the British Medical Journal Group). The Best Evidence database is a collection of reviews of individual journal articles. The collection currently contains about 1,200 reviews. Ovid has importantly bundled the two databases together so that the two files can be searched simultaneously. Likewise, Ovid has implemented links from Medline citation to EBMR review, thereby allowing the end-user to link seamlessly from one database to the other. Taking the idea of resource integration a step further, Ovid has also implemented links from the EBMR reviews to the Ovid Electronic Journal Collections, thereby rendering this range of resources fully searchable and scalable at one time. The Evidence Based Medicine Reviews file will be available via the Ovid / CHEST National Biomedical Data Service from August '98. Updates will be monthly and pricing will be by concurrent user. The commitment period for subscriptions to this database is annual. Subscribers are also invited to take advantage of a promotion which gives a 10% discount on the list price of the database if ordered prior to June 25th. Pricing, to which VAT should be added, is as follows: ------- Data fee: 625 pounds for one concurrent user. Data fee: 215 pounds for each additional concurrent user. Access fee: 625 pounds for each concurrent user. If your institution has not purchased any Full Text Collections (e.g. only subscribes to one or more of Medline, CINAHL or CancerLit) you will need to purchase access for concurrent users at a cost of 625 pounds per concurrent user for access to EBMR. If your Institution has already paid access fees with a purchase of at least one Full Text Collection you need not purchase extra accesses for use with EBMR because the accesses already purchased will allow you to access EBMR as well as the FT collection(s). Examples: 1. Institution has purchased Medline only. Now wishes to purchase EBMR with 3 concurrent users. Cost of EBMR: Data fee 625 + 215 + 215 = 1055 Access fee 625 x 3 = 1875 ---- Total = 2930 2. Institution has purchased Medline and one full text collection with 3 concurrent users. Now wishes to purchase EBMR with 3 concurrent users. Data fee 625 + 215 + 215 = 1055 Access fee - covered within access fee for original full text collection, For further information about pricing and the database please contact: Ovid UK Sales Department on 0181 748 3777. For further information about Biomedical Service go to http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/biomed/contents.html 2. Inspec ========= There was a very healthy response to the survey on interest in a potential Inspec Agreement, and negotiations are continuing with the aim of a service starting early in the Academic Year 98/99. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%