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Autumn 2000 ********| In this Issue |******** Issue in Focus: Full-Text Linking International Partnership News & New Products Free Trial of MEDLINE ADVANCED and CINAHL with Silverlinker Lendac Happenings We now have 2 new staff members in our Information Resources Division! Fintan Lavery hails from Armagh and has recently awarded the MBA from University of Ulster. Jan Holland comes to Lendac all the way from Cape May, New Jersey with 10 years experience working for her local newspaper. You can contact Fintan at flavery@lendac.ie and Jan at jholland@lendac.ie ! In our Electronic Publishing Division, we are pleased to welcome Ailbhe Carr, Bsc in Commercial Software Development from WIT and Helen Farrell who recently awarded the H.Dip in Library Science from UCD. Helen and Ailbhe are both web/product developers. The Broadcast and Multimedia Division is also pleased to announce their latest staff member, Sarah Guiney, who works on computer graphic design and 3D modelling. Sarah studied at Dun Laoghaire College of Art, Design, and Technology!
IIA Showcase: Content Management Solutions July 31, 2000 Liam Chambers presented at the Irish Internet Association Showcase on Content Management Solutions. He explained how site visitors want fast, easy access to business-critical content, without having to sort through a lot of useless information. With LivePublish & LiveEnterprise software, publishers and corporations can deliver business-critical content over the internet or inside corporate intranets, quickly and cost effectively. To view his presentation, click here to talk to Liam about Content Management, phone 01-6776133 or email liamc@lendac.ie . IBC 2000, Amsterdam We will be exhibiting at the International Broadcasting Convention from September 8th - 12th in the RAI Centre, Amsterdam. Together with Viewercom, Lendac will be in Hall 7, Stand 130. Some features include the Digital Virtual Studio, our recently released version for DigiSuite LE, and Viewercom's revolutionary Chromatte retro-reflective material for chroma keying. Combined, these products create a powerful and cost-effective solution for virtual studio production. Further information on DVS can be found here The International Broadcasting Convention is the world's premier broadcast technology event. The show covers all the key areas of the electronic media business including audio, cable, film, grip, internet, lighting, multimedia, production, post production, radio, satellite and transmission. The event consists of an exhibition, conference and programme festival. For further details, please visit www.ibc.org Library EXPO 2000 We look forward to seeing you at the Library
EXPO 2000 in the RDS on October 3 and 4th. Pop by our stand or come
listen to a variety of discussions in the Lendac Seminar Theatre. We
will be sending out a full schedule of seminar discussions to all eNewsletter
recipients within the next couple of weeks. Feel free to contact us if you
would like an invitation to the LibraryEXPO at 01-677-6133 or info@lendac.ie Issue in Focus: Full-Text Linking Lendac’s LRSNet ( http://lrs.lendac.ie ) has the technology to supply you with linking capability! This latest addition to our service actually allows you to link your bibliographic and abstract database searches to the eJournals that YOU subscribe to. You can see an example of concept in action when you log on to the free trial that we have set up of SilverPlatter’s SilverLinker Database. For details on the various services that provide eLinking, please see below:
The SilverPlatter/Lendac Internet Service The SilverPlatter Internet Service is an easy way to provide desktop access to over 20 research databases hosted by Lendac. Remote users can search SilverPlatter databases from home computers, campus libraries, dormitory rooms, corporate headquarters, branch offices or overseas locations! The SilverPlatter/Lendac Internet Service provides:
We Save You Time and Resources With the SilverPlatter/Lendac Internet Service you can provide 24 hour a day, seven day a week access to premier databases. We host the databases at our site -- that means no server administration, no software maintenance, no need for technical support on site, no need to load databases, no time spent maintaining and updating your subscriptions. The Internet Service - Now with Web Links to Full-Text!! Now, through SilverLinker technology, researchers can navigate seamlessly from bibliographic records to full text articles via web links to:
SilverLinker® - The Full-Text Solution SilverLinker is SilverPlatter's exciting innovation that lets you navigate seamlessly to full text. Search your favourite SilverPlatter databases. Choose the citations that are most relevant, and link from bibliographic records directly to full-text articles, your library’s holdings, document delivery services, or interlibrary loan. SilverLinker provides:
New Features from SilverLinker Full Text Providing:
All Active Links Unlike other services, with SilverLinker all of the links you see are live - you won't see links that lead you to dead ends or error messages.
Gold eDocs... Dialog’s FREE Linking Technology You subscribe to specific Dialog OnDisc databases, and you have these loaded on your intranet or you access them via Lendac’s Dialog@Site Server. You also subscribe to an increasing number of electronic fulltext journals from different sources. Clearly, you need to make sure that the records in your databases link directly into this valuable fulltext. Gold eDocs is this link; the link between your OnDisc bibliographic database records and your electronic fulltext. Each record retrieved in a search will have its own Gold eDocs button. When you point and click, a real-time generated URL will then take you directly to the electronic fulltext. Multilevel Customisation As with your print-journals (p-journals), your e-journals will come from a variety of sources. Gold eDocs will auto-generate links for the world¹s leading publishers and aggregators giving access to many thousands of e-journals. Of course you only subscribe specifically to your chosen titles via your chosen sources. You will therefore configure Gold eDocs to generate URLs for these sources only and for these exact titles only. Furthermore it may be the case that a different department within your organisation subscribes to a different set of e-journals. Gold eDocs will also handle this situation. No Dead Links! It would be very annoying and frustrating for your users if they were to follow a link through to an e-Document - only to find that they did not have access to it. This will not happen with Gold eDocs. Gold eDocs will only generate URLs for your titles, via your chosen sources. This will work equally well on agent-hosted or locally hosted databases. Integration into Local Collections You may also have a number of e-journals that you have loaded in-house. Gold eDocs will not only link to remotely hosted e-journals, but will also link into your local e-journals and your p-journals. Real time Generated URLs By using dynamic rule bases of URL links (as opposed to a static database of URL links) you can be sure that as new e-titles are added around the world, the links will immediately be available to you. URLinks Server The URL is in fact generated by a central URL links Server (as opposed to having multiple static copies at customer sites). Gold eDocs will therefore dynamically generate the correct URL for you every time. With Gold eDocs , there is no static locally stored "links" database that can go out-of-date as soon as it is published. Gold eDocs is FREE OF CHARGE! You subscribe to your chosen OnDisc databases from Dialog and you subscribe separately to your chosen e-journals – from publishers or aggregators. You do NOT pay extra for the linking between these subscriptions! Gold eDocs is entirely free-of-charge. To view a demo of Gold eDocs, click the link: http://products.dialog.com/products/atsite/eDocs/highwire_demo.pdf Flexible — OpenLinks can be
implemented gradually or all-at-once, for one or all Ovid databases. Since
OpenLinks can accommodate the requirements of different publisher full text
services with varying search syntax, it is possible to have multiple
subscriptions from different publishers. All major full text formats,
including PDF, are supported by OpenLinks. Customizable — OpenLinks are easily
tailored to your environment. Access can be defined differently for different
user groups. Open— as in "open
systems." The software complies fully with emerging standards (such as
DOI). Links appear only for
subscribed journals — You define OpenLinks so that they appear only for
publishers, journal titles, and years of coverage to which your institution
has access. Access options — OpenLinks access to
publisher sites is supported through IP validation or user IDs and passwords. SilverPlatter Information and Lendac have a few special offers on databases. Please email meghan@lendac.ieif you would like further details or a trial!
Find the latest market and industry information in Business and Industry Database and Business and Management Practices Database. Academic and Public Libraries can receive 40% off these new business databases from RDS.
Subscribe to any EIU database and receive 35% off the current list price (academic institutions only). Any institution (corporate or academic) that purchases a full set of Country Reports, Country Forecasts or the Country Risk Service get an additional 5% off. All EIU databases are available via the Internet or on CD-ROM: EIU Country Forecasts on Disc; EIU Country Reports on Disc; EIU Country Risk Service on Disc; EIU International Business Newsletters on Disc; EIU Investing, Licensing and Trading; China Hand.
PAIS Select, from the Public Affairs Information Service, provides selected full text of public policy articles cited in the current year’s PAIS International. PAIS Select is available on its own and as a companion to the newly enhanced PAIS International bibliographic database. The PAIS Complete bundle is available for 15% off the price of the two component databases purchased separately.
International Partnership News & New Products Micromedex launches new Herbal Interactions Product AltMed-REAX for the Professional With new information developing about harmful interactions between alternative medicines and prescription or non-prescription drugs, consumers and healthcare professionals have voiced concern. To meet this demand, MICROMEDEX is introducing AltMed-REAXTM for the Professional. AltMed-REAX provides information on herb-drug, herb-dietary supplement, herb-food, herb-alcohol and herb-tobacco interactions. For each interaction, in-depth, comprehensive information is provided, including the probable mechanism of action, clinical managements, onset and severity of the interaction, as well as supporting evidence from the medical literature for the interaction. "A recent article in the Washington Post indicated that a pharmacist knew no more about drug-supplement interactions than a clerk at a vitamin store," said Barbara Fuhrman, product manager for the Complementary & Alternative Medicine series at MICROMEDEX. "As a pharmacist, I am concerned about the knowledge gap of healthcare professionals when it comes to herb-drug interactions. However, it is understandable, because good clinical information about herb-drug interactions is not readily available. We have recruited the top editors, who are leaders in the field of herbals and supplements interactions, for the development of this product. Information about herbal interactions is developing rapidly, which makes our quarterly updating of information very important." AltMed-REAX for the Professional will be available on the MICROMEDEX® HealthCare Series for Windows® and Intranets. Content is also available for licensing to Internet portals. Give us a call for further details at 01-677-6133!
MICROMEDEX AltMed-REAX™ for the Patient AltMed-REAX™ for the Patient provides patient education materials on over 500 potential drug/herb, alcohol/herb, food/herb, supplement/herb, and tobacco/herb interactions. AltMed-REAX monographs describe the specific interaction and warn patients about potentially harmful effects. Supporting evidence and advice for patients on what to do if experiencing an interaction is included. Content is presented under the following headings:
AltMed-REAX™ for the Patient offers:
Sample document (St. John's Wort) ALSO New From MICROMEDEX: MICROMEDEX® MyDrug-Reax™ MyDrug-Reax is a drug therapy screening system that
allows consumers, searching for health and medical information on the
Internet, to check for interacting drug ingredients, their effects, and
clinical significance. MyDrug-Reax™ is turnkey or customizable. By using browser
technology, this product offers a turnkey and a customizable solution that
can be quickly and effectively integrated into the look and feel of health
and medical destination sites. MyDrug-Reax™ is backed by the MICROMEDEX®
reputation. To enter the exploding Internet market, MICROMEDEX
is developing a suite of consumer health resources. For years MICROMEDEX has
been a trusted source for health care professionals, now consumers will have
access to our accurate, easy to understand and reputable information. MyDrug-Reax™ screens for:
MyDrug-Reax™
screens over 134,844 active and inactive drugs from the RED BOOK® Database.
Since consumers tend to keep medicine around for a while, RED BOOK® purposely
leaves the discontinued (inactive) drugs on file for historical reasons. OVID Technologies Check out Ovid’s Database of the Month! click the link: http://www.ovid.com/demo/dotm/index.cfm Fifteen Medical and Nursing
Journals Added to Journals@Ovid
Ovid Technologies announced today that it has added
15 important medical and nursing journals to its aggregated Journals@Ovid
full text database, bringing the total number of journal titles in the
database to 363. Journals@Ovid is a continually growing database of top line
medical and scientific journals expected to reach the milestone of 400 titles
by the end of the year. Ovid selected the 15 new titles in large part based
on customer requests. They reinforce one of the primary subject
concentrations of Journals@Ovid, which already contains an extensive list of
key titles in clinical medicine, biomedicine, health care management and
nursing. "With the huge success of Journals@Ovid in the healthcare
sector, particularly medical schools, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies,
we're happy to be adding these additional medical and nursing journals to our
collection," said Debbie Hull, Ovid President and CEO. "Our
customers consistently stress quality in helping us make content decisions,
and these titles reflect our commitment to providing the highest quality
possible." The 15 new titles added to Journals@Ovid are: (1) AIDS Patient Care & STDs – Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., this is one of the definitive journals in the literature on AIDS, and the first title added from this new Ovid publishing partner. The journal is included on the authoritative Brandon/Hill "List of Books and Journals for the Small Medical Library." (2 - 5) Critical Care Nursing, Family and Community Health, Holistic Nursing Practice, and The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing – Published by Aspen Publishers, Inc., these are the first of nine titles currently under license from Aspen to be added to Journals@Ovid. (6 - 8) Current Opinion in Endocrinology & Diabetes, Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, and Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation – These three titles in the Current Opinion series join 17 other titles from the series—published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins—available via Journals@Ovid. (9) Hospitals and Health Networks – This prestigious title for healthcare executives and leaders is the first Journals@Ovid title published by Health Forum, Inc. (10) The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London – The flagship journal of The Royal College of Physicians of London seeks to maintain high standards of patient care and medical education. (11) The Milbank Quarterly – Published by Blackwell Publishers, this is a key journal devoted to scholarly analysis of significant issues in health and health care policy. (12-14) Endocrinology, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Molecular Endocrinology – Published by the Endocrine Society, Molecular Endocrinology is the most highly cited journal of peer reviewed science in endocrinology and metabolism, and is ranked 89th out of all 5,467 biomedical journals in the authoritative "Journal Citation Reports" study by the Institute for Scientific Information. With the addition of Molecular Endocrinology, Ovid now offers all four Endocrine Society journals. (15) Seminars in Neurology – This is the fourth title published by Thieme Publishers to be added to Journals@Ovid, with another two to be added soon.
DARE Added to Ovid's
Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews
Ovid announced the addition of the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) to its clinical point-of-care product Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR). DARE is available as part of EBMR via Ovid Online and will be released as part of the local EBMR product shortly. Like the other EBMR components, DARE on Ovid features full linking from citations and abstracts in Ovid's market-leading MEDLINE® implementation. About DARE DARE is a full text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of international medical journals. It covers topics such as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment. DARE is produced by the expert reviewers and information staff of the National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at the University of York, U.K. (http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk). The CRD was established in January 1994 to provide the NHS with important information on the effectiveness of treatments and the delivery and organisation of health care. About EBMR To meet the unique needs of the practising clinician,
Ovid builds and aggregates information resources that enable doctors, nurses,
and other allied health professionals to quickly get bottom-line summary
information on clinical topics to aid decision-making at the point of care.
EBMR "We are thrilled that this agreement will bring access to important journals from Elsevier Science and from key independent publishers represented on the ScienceDirect site via SilverLinker," said Carol Meyer, SilverLinker Product Manager. "This represents the addition of more than eleven hundred journals spanning 14 fields of science. Our customers have repeatedly requested access to this critical collection. Customers will be able to link to the ScienceDirect web site," said Ms. Meyer. "This will bring the total journals linked to via SilverLinker to over 4,000." Ms. Meyer also indicated that customers will soon have the ability to link to ScienceDirect Onsite, ScienceDirect's local collections, as that feature is in development and testing. "Access to full text articles in ScienceDirect from the SilverPlatter collection of databases is a link our customers requested and we are pleased to provide," stated Pat Sabosik, Vice President and General Manager, ScienceDirect. "The access will help drive article usage which is an important metric for our authors and editors." ScienceDirect is the world's largest provider of full-text electronic databases of scientific, technical and medical information. They currently offer subscribers desktop access to the full text of more than 1,100 journals representing more than 800,000 full text articles plus links to thousands more published by Elsevier Science and other leading STM publishers. ScienceDirect is a unit of Elsevier Science and part of the Reed Elsevier PLC group, a leading provider of information to the STM, legal and business communities. The ScienceDirect website is: www.sciencedirect.com SilverLinker provides article-specific URL links within the bibliographic database that enable linking directly to the article the users wants, not just to the top level of the electronic journal. Links are available from more than 90 bibliographic databases, spanning all academic disciplines
MedXtra is SilverPlatter's free WWW service for medical librarians. If you are a SilverPlatter customer email medextra@silverlinker.com today get your MedXtra password and access: A recent sample of MEDLINE Advanced: Search our most powerful MEDLINE offering with SilverPlatter's WebSPIRS search and retrieval software. WebMedLit: A weekly updated index of biomedical
literature published on the Web, including many articles not yet indexed in
MEDLINE. · Frequent content updating - no waiting for the next CD-ROM · Order hard copies of documents online - no need to find a bookshop · Easy access via the Internet - so many opportunities · Uses SilverPlatter's award-winning ERL ( Electronic Reference Library™) technology Hardware and Software Requirements This Web based service will reduce costs by reducing hardware and software requirements as well as saving the information provider access time and expense by:
Navigation Features SilverPlatter's "SPIRS" advanced navigation features will offer
Chadwyck-Healey The Guardian/Observer Archive The Guardian/Observer Archive is an indispensable resource for anyone wanting to understand or learn more about the political, social, economic and cultural events of the 1990s. Through a simple Web interface, you can now search more than nine years of The Guardian and over five years of The Observer. With regular and rapid updating, the Archive is always current, right up to the previous day's edition. The Guardian/Observer Archive offers:
The Guardian/Observer Archive contains the full text of both newspapers in a fully-searchable format. The text is taken from the final London editions of the newspaper and includes all the news, features and editorial comment. Stock Exchange price information and unit trust prices are excluded, as are advertisements, TV and radio listings, weather information and statistics, sports statistics and certain copyright material. Using The Guardian/Observer Archive you can search each newspaper separately or both together. You can search the entire text of the newspapers for words and phrases or you can limit your search to headline, by-line or date. You can also restrict your search to sections of the newspapers such as business or sport. All the functionality and ease- of-use of Chadwyck-Healey's CD-ROM edition of The Guardian and The Observer are recreated in the Guardian/Observer Archive, with far simpler searching across the entire period it covers and faster network access in individual libraries and across institutions. The Guardian/Observer Archive opens up endless possibilities for event and issue tracking, project work and lesson preparation, essay writing and homework, summaries and background briefings. The Archive enables you, for example, to follow the debates surrounding the emergence of the single European currency, trace the developing BSE crisis from the earliest suspicions to its aftermath, or research reports on the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and then follow the subsequent developments from Desert Shield to Desert Fox. The Guardian/Observer Archive also includes a link to The Guardian's own web site, adding the current day's news and comment to the nine-year Archive. The Guardian was founded in 1821 to 'advocate the cause of reform' and fight 'scurrility and slander'. It is the UK's leading liberal daily, combining genuine independence with a reputation for fairness and fine writing. It was the paper that first brought news of the worst atrocities of the Bosnian conflict and exposed the so-called 'sleaze' that ultimately enveloped the last Conservative government. The Observer, founded in 1791, is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. Its correspondents covered the execution of Marie Antoinette and Nelson's triumph at Trafalgar. In recent times The Observer was the first to break the news of talks between the IRA and the British government and to raise awareness of the suffering of the Algerian people in the current unrest there. ProQuest/ Bell & Howell Information and Learning
ProQuest® 4.0 Debuts
at American Library Association Annual Conference
Bell & Howell’s Information and Learning business unit (formerly UMI) premiered the latest release of its award-winning online information research system, ProQuest®, at the American Library Association annual conference in Chicago. This version was released to customers July 31. The most significant addition to ProQuest is a new intelligent document linking capability, called IntelliDocs™, which allows users to reach beyond database resources to find information in wide range selected sources. "The IntelliDocs feature greatly expands the amount of information available to searchers," said Todd Fegan, Vice President of ProQuest Product Management. "People, places, and companies are highlighted in the full text of articles found in ProQuest. When users click on these words, they are immediately linked to a suite of additional reference sources such as the OPAC, encyclopedia content, and relevant sites on the Web. With IntelliDocs, we are integrating highly relevant information and providing this additional content in a process that will be intuitive and useful to the end user." Sources include World Book Encyclopedia, Best of the Web (relevant sites on the Web), company profiles from Dow Jones®, and the library’s local OPAC. These quality sources provide relevant content with high editorial value. More quality sources will be added in the coming months to expand the knowledge base available to ProQuest searchers. IntelliDocs is available to ProQuest subscribers as a service enhancement. In its initial release, IntelliDocs can be activated for general-reference databases, such as ProQuest Research Library™, ProQuest Discovery™, and Periodical Abstracts. A number of changes to ProQuest’s user interface will simplify searching and enhance capabilities. Enhancements include:
In addition to front-end changes, ProQuest 4.0 unveils several important enhancements to electronic usage reports. Site administrators will be able to:
Electronic Gateway to
Comprehensive Digital Content in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Periodical Contents Index Full Text (PCI Full Text) expands the company’s vast digital repertoire further into the humanities and social sciences. PCI Full Text is a growing online resource. More than 20 titles are now available; in the first year 100 journals in subjects ranging from literature and theology to history and the performing arts will be available in full-page image. Articles date from 1990 to as far back as 1770, facilitating the research efforts of students and scholars world-wide. An Invaluable Research Tool for the Humanities and Social Sciences Web access to citations and full page images eliminates the laborious effort of searching through print periodicals to locate information. Boolean and keyword search capabilities jumpstart research projects, providing researchers a time-saving electronic gateway into new banks of knowledge that were previously accessible only with substantial effort. PCI Full Text gives students and scholars a new set of tools that will expand the breadth of future research projects. Quickly Access Broad Subject Content Combined with Deep Chronological Coverage The foundation of PCI Full Text is Periodicals Contents Index (PCI), a Web resource that provides author, title and keyword access to the tables of contents in over 3,000 journals, over 10.5 million articles from 1770 to 1990. Unique in its broad, international coverage of the humanities, social sciences, and general topics, PCI expands by over a million records every year allowing researchers to quickly locate articles relevant to their studies. A Natural Extension to PCI Full Text Progression to PCI Full Text was a natural extension of the product, by linking the citations to the full page image of multi-lingual journal articles. PCI Full Text is now available via the Web with comprehensive content from such titles as Journal of Marketing, Journal of Memory and Language, Journal of Social History, The Explicator, Journal of Social Psychology, Modern Language Review, Notes, The Virginia Quarterly Review and Studies in Short Fiction. Internationally renowned, PCI is the major index for humanities and social sciences periodicals in institutions around the world and now provides the electronic gateway for full image access of journal articles. Using PCI combined with PCI Full Text, users can quickly identify relevant articles and move directly to the full page image. Records are linked to the corresponding page images downloadable in Adobe® PDF.
Context
Human Rights on JUSTIS.com
Context has further broadened the JUSTIS.com Web service with the addition of a comprehensive new Human Rights database. The new database became available on 26th June 2000, several months prior to the implementation of the Human Rights Act in October. The database encompasses three key aspects of this increasingly important area of law:
The first section contains the reports of all cases from the European Court of Human Rights going back to the Court's earliest judgment in 1960. The text of the reports is in the same form as published by the European Court of Human Rights and is searchable using the usual JUSTIS.com search fields, such as Court, Parties, Judges, Headnote etc. The second section contains European Human Rights Conventions including:
The final piece of the jigsaw is the Human Rights Act 1998 c.42 presented in its consolidated form, incorporating any amendments made by subsequent UK legislation.
Human Rights Act is coming soon!
The Human Rights Act comes into effect on 2nd October 2000. Its introduction will have a profound effect on the law in the UK. Prepare yourself by subscribing to the new Human Rights database on JUSTIS.com. The database includes
We are currently offering a 20% discount on the database - the discounted price is £615.00. To take advantage of this offer - simply call Meghan at 01-677-6133 to place your order!!
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