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Happenings
XML
in Perspective: FREE Seminar Series
Special
Feature: Irish Content Databases
International
Partnership News & New Products
Free
LRSNet Trial: ERIC from Silverplatter
MEDICAL OPEN DAYS: Lendac
has been out and about in 2000. In
February, Meghan and Liam headed down to Cork for an Open Day Session at the
University Hospital. The features of
the day were highlighted with demonstrations of electronic medical information.
A great success! We are hoping to hold
similar Open Days around Ireland throughout the year. Please contact us if you want to hold an Open Day at your
organization!
You may have also seen us at the Waste Management/Recycling
Seminar in the RDS two weeks ago, where we were featuring Health, Safety and
Environmental electronic information products.
We will be exhibiting at the National Scientific Medical Meeting
at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin on March 31-April 1. We
are also excited about attending the LAI Conference at the Grand Hotel,
Malahide in April. Pop by the stand for a free DEMO of LRSNet!
Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858: On Wednesday, March 22, Lendac and
Eneclann held a launch of their latest joint venture CD-ROM. Held at the National Museum in Dublin, the
event was kicked off by Minister of Arts Sile DeValera. If you would like to ORDER a copy of the
CD-ROM, please contact our sales department.
Lendac Data
Systems adds DVD authoring to our wide range of Multimedia and Broadcast
services. Utilizing DVD authoring
software from Sonic Solutions, we would be happy to output your footage to DVD
Video. The software is also available
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Digisuite DTV video editing hardware.
For further information, please contact Nuala Sullivan on (01) 6776133
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Series of FREE seminars from Lendac Data
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XML is the
most important new standard for the creation, management, exchange and
distribution of information on networks, intranets, and the internet. It has
been adopted by many of the world's leading e-businesses, publishers and
information rich organizations to:
Reduce the
overheads and costs of content creation and maintenance
* Create and
manage more meaningful and therefore more valuable information
* Create
responsive information products irrespective of the distribution formats
internet, CD-ROM, intranet, paper etc faster than has ever been possible
before.
Lendac data
Systems is a leading solutions provider in the arena of intranet and internet
applications with a proven track record of XML achievement. If you would like to find out more about
XML and how it may impact your business or organization we are holding a number
of free seminars on XML and how to come to terms with it. The following events are scheduled. If you
wish to attend, please mark the event with an X and email XML@lendac.ie
XML
a general overview
This session will
cover XML in its broadest terms, its relationships with HTML and SGML, what it
is and why it's important.
____ I wish
to attend XML a general overview seminar
on 27th
April, 2000, 10am - 12pm, Davenport Hotel, Dublin (Day 1)
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XML
and The Publisher
A session
dedicated to the changes in publishing approaches being created by the
adaptation of XML; its relationships with SGML and impacts on recent investments
in HTML based technologies. This session is aimed at content publishers, and in
particular those who are considering "single source" content
production.
____ I wish
to attend XML and The Publisher
on 27th
April, 2000, 2pm - 4pm, Davenport Hotel, Dublin (Day 1)
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XML and the
Information Professional
This session
takes a look at the opportunities that XML presents for information
professionals, with particular emphasis on data structures, information and the
expanding role of knowledge management.
____ I wish
to attend XML and the Information Professional
on 28th
April, 2000, 10am - 12pm, Davenport Hotel, Dublin (Day 2)
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Lendac has
compiled a quick list of Irish Content databases below. If you are interested
in any of them, please contact info@lendac.ie
Context
launches the Electronic Irish Reports: April 2000
The
Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for Ireland in conjunction with Context
Limited will launch an electronic version of the Council's publications - The
Irish Reports and Irish Digests. The product will cover over 80 years of Irish
case reports.
The
Electronic Irish Reports will contain the full text data of published cases
from 1919. The Digests will provide a reference to each case reported in:
* The Irish
Reports
* Northern
Ireland Reports
* Irish Law
Reports Monthly
* Irish Law
Times Reports
* Irish
Jurist Reports
* Irish Law
Journal
The
Electronic Irish Reports will run under the familiar JUSTIS 5 interface. Users
will benefit from the J-Link feature, which facilitates links to the Electronic
Irish Reports from references in e-mail, the Web and most other Windows-based
applications.
The
Electronic Irish Reports contain many references to the electronic Law Reports
published by Context and the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England
& Wales, all of which will act as linkable cross-references for all
subscribers to the electronic Law Reports.
Please
contact info@lendac.ie if you are interested in further details on the above.
-
The Irish Book Database on CD-ROM from CLO
An Electronic
Address Book of publishers and suppliers with links to websites. Thousands of
Irish-published and Irish-interest titles at your fingertips!
- Listings
from Books Ireland Magazine
- A newly
updated CD every month
- - On screen
presentations of selected titles
Irish Books
in Print can be used on any PC with any version of Microsoft windows and allow
you to:
- - Find any
book by any Irish publisher, quickly and easily
- - Create
your own lists of titles and print them in pre-formatted reports
Please
contact Paula, Meghan, or Michael to order your subscription!
from
Silverplatter
The
International Books in Print PLUS gives comprehensive coverage of
English-language titles published in Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Continental
Europe, Latin America, New Zealand, Oceania and the Republic of Ireland. The
database gives access to 260,000 English-language titles published outside the
US and UK by over 8,000 publishers. Information includes price, number of
pages, binding, publisher details and distributors.
Designed as a
practical guide to regulations, operating conditions, and corporate practices
in 60 countries, the EIU Investing, Licensing & Trading database from SilverPlatter
delivers the world's most comprehensive global business reference publication
on CD-ROM and via the Internet. This is vital information as competition in
domestic markets intensifies and more organizations seek to expand their
markets overseas. Updated monthly, with each individual report updated
semi-annually, EIU Investing, Licensing & Trading describes regulations on
capital movements, investment incentive, rules on foreign investment, labor
conditions, export credits, local capital sources, competition and price
control policies. EIU Investing, Licensing & Trading from SilverPlatter
provides easy access to the practical information that you need to conduct
business abroad. Actual case examples illustrate how leading multi-national
corporations obtain government approvals, set up local companies, calculate
corporate and personal taxes, and leap administrative and legal hurdles.
EIU Country
Reports on Disc is the most comprehensive database of country analysis offered
today. EIU Country Reports on Disc provides a full overview of the latest
economic, political, and market conditions for all regions of the world. Each
disc offers country-specific data and analysis, including a summary of the
latest business events; an analysis of recent political and economic
developments; current and historical trade and economic data; an overview of
major industrial trends; and a political and economic outlook.
EIU Country
Forecasts on Disc from Dialog & Silverplatter
EIU Country
Forecasts on Disc, from the Economist Intelligence Unit, is a vital planning
tool that provides authoritative and objective forecasts of critical political,
economic, and business trends for 58 countries. Now the EIU's authoritative
global forecasts are easily accessible through CD-ROM and over the Internet.
Each country profile contains an in-depth analysis of the current and future
political, economic, and business environment; comprehensive five-year
forecasts detailing GDP growth, population and income, inflation, currency and
interest rates, external trade, foreign indebtedness and other important
indicators; an appraisal of the country's prospects over the next ten years;
five-year summary of historical data; quarterly alerts to recent developments
affecting forecasts; and an executive summary and fact sheet. The format of all
reports is consistent to facilitate comparison between countries. Country
Forecasts on Disc is an essential resource for business professionals -- from information
specialists and researchers to corporate planners and financial managers -- who
need comprehensive forecasts of global business trends. Country Forecasts on Disc includes the full
text and tables from the EIU's well-respected print series and provides a
comprehensive review of the future market trends for five major regions of the
world!
Providing
full text Health and Safety information from the following sources:
Acts of the
Oireachtas;
All appropriate
Statutory Instruments;
Health and
Safety Authority's (HSA) current publications, reports annual reports;
The Certificates of Exemption and Exception;
Irish
Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) health and safety guides and "Your
Questions Answered";
National
Standards Association of Northern Ireland (NSAI) health and safety standards;
National
Safety Organization (NISO) guidance and advice;
Bibliographic
content: References to the appropriate European Health, Safety and Environment
Directives; Extensive list of references to appropriate National Standards
Association of Northern Ireland (NSAI) OSH standards (other than those included
as full text documents).
BookWISE-CD
BookWISE-CD
is the result of market research conducted with independent booksellers in the
UK over a period of twelve months. It is designed to meet the bibliographic
information needs of the domestic market, covering titles published in the UK,
and imported titles where they are available.
BookWISE-CD is a database of over 1.3 million titles available in the UK
and Ireland, and includes coverage of forthcoming, in-print and recently
out-of-print titles. This is the key feature of the service. Coverage includes
book titles, as well as audio cassettes, CD-ROMs, computer software, and other
media items.
A
Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Legal Literature on CD-ROM
An author and
subject catalogue of law treatises and all law-related literature held in
twelve major legal collections in Britain, Ireland and the United States. A Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Legal
Literature (BINELL) is a rich resource for scholars of social, economic and
political, as well as constitutional and legal history, containing entries for
more than 250,000 items in a subject classification scheme with up to 1,000
headings.
"...
should be found on the shelves of every academic library serving not only the
law, but also politics and history departments with a strong interest in
nineteenth-century law and the contemporary written evidence of influences for
change. "
-The Law
Librarian, December 1992
Wing:
Short-Title Catalogue, 1641-1700
Short-Title
Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British
America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700, edited by
Donald Wing et al. Publication of the
newly revised, enlarged edition on CD-ROM provides electronic access for the
first time to this essential bibliographic database of thousands of extant books,
pamphlets and broadsides printed in English between 1641 and 1700. Few
reference tools have proved as useful to scholars, librarians and students of
the seventeenth century - as well as to antiquarian booksellers and book
collectors - as Donald Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (known universally as
Wing). More than sixty years in the making, Wing enables researchers from all
disciplines to discover and locate seventeenth-century printed works at over
200 libraries worldwide. In print, Wing consists of three volumes which are now
combined and fully accessible on one CD-ROM for the first time. This revised edition of Wing expands the
1972 edition with the restoration of lost entries, expansion of
cross-references and the addition of new material. The CD-ROM contains over
100,000 entries covering all known material printed in English between
1641-1700 except serials. Each entry provides the author's name, the imprint,
bibliographic information and the item's physical format and lists selected
libraries and institutions that hold a copy of the work.
The
W.B. Yeats Collection
Yeats's
complete works, available for the first time in electronic form
W.B. Yeats
was one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. His works are included
in all major anthologies of poetry and are widely studied in schools and
universities. This database is the first complete electronic edition of Yeats's
work and places his poetry in the context of his other writings. It brings
together twenty-two printed volumes and includes critical and fictional prose,
poetry and plays plus autobiographical works.
Using The
W.B. Yeats Collection, students can unravel the history of the man and his
writing. This database is an invaluable tool in the debate surrounding the
revision and textual editing of Yeats's corpus. It enables users to search
across the final published versions of his poems and essays and to trace the
development of his ideas and techniques.
The W.B.
Yeats Collection can be searched by genre: poetry, drama, non-fictional prose or
fictional prose and by keyword, first line or title keyword or first
publication date. On the World Wide Web, The W.B. Yeats Collection can be
cross-searched with the Chadwyck-Healey Twentieth-Century Poetry and English
Poetry databases, providing researchers with access to an unrivalled wealth of
texts across a vast range of poets from the seventh century to the present
day. New subscriptions include FREE WEB
ACCESS for one year!!
EEBO:
Early English Books Online
A Bell & Howell
Information and Learning Exclusive!
Imagine...
* Comparing
Shakespeare's first and second folios online
* Building a
collection on witchcraft that includes dissertations, eyewitness accounts of
the Salem trials, and journal articles across the centuries
* Browsing
every issue of Time from 1924 forward
Everything
old is new again
In 1938 UMI
(now known as Bell & Howell Information and Learning) opened its doors with
a single product -- the Early English Books collection, filmed from the
originals in the British Museum. Today, we're kicking off our new Digital Vault
Initiative with Early English Books Online(tm), the same collection digitized
for Web access. And that's just the first of the 5.5 billion page images we're
converting from film to digital format.
The broadest,
deepest content -- from microfilm to Web
Bell &
Howell Information and Learning holds the world's largest commercial microfilm
collection. Now we're using it to create the world's largest digital
collection, with everything from the Gutenberg Bible to last month's issue of
Time. Each year we add another 37 million contemporary pages, in many cases
creating seamless online packages that combine both retrospective and current
materials.
Easy Web
access
Bell &
Howell Information and Learning provides electronic access to Digital Vault
Initiative offerings through online bibliographic databases; both keyword and
boolean searching will be supported. Digitized periodicals will also include
searchable tables of contents.
Early English
Books Online reproduces the works listed in:
* Pollard
& Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue of printed materials published in the
English language from 1475 to 1640
* Wing's
Short-Title Catalogue of works dating from 1641 to 1700
* Thomason
Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between
1640 and 1661
Included are
works by Michael O'Clery, John Cook, Confederate Catholiks of Ireland, Sir
James Ware; and Frances Molloy, prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations;
almanacs, calendars, and other primary resources, all in full facsimile. Early
English Books Online includes more than 96,000 early printed works. This
incomparable collection meets the needs of the most exhaustive research
requirements of scholars in English literature, history, linguistics, the fine
arts, and the history of printing. Bell & Howell Information and Learning
provides access to all 96,000 individual titles. Search fields include:
* Author
* Title
* Printer
* Publication
date
* Type of
illustration (e.g., maps, plates, coats of arms)
* Library of
Congress subject heading and others as well.
Records are
linked to the corresponding page images, downloadable in Adobe Acrobat format.
Later phases of the Digital Vault Initiative call for full-text encoding, thus
enabling users to search and browse through the complete text in ASCII format.
Bell &
Howell Information and Learning began filming the STC collection in 1938 not
only to preserve the rare and fragile original copies of these literary
treasures, but also to serve scholars unable to study them onsite. The
microfilm collection gave users around the world access to high-resolution
facsimiles of the original material in compact archival format. Early English
Books Online expands access to yet another type of user-the reader who wants
easy and immediate access to the material over the Web. Even novice searchers
can locate works of interest and call them up onscreen in a matter of moments.
If your library already owns the microfilm edition, you can have it both
ways-microfilm for in-depth research and archival purposes, online for the
immediacy of Internet access. We'll give you access to the same materials on
Early English Books Online for only a small incremental fee.
From
Oxford University Press:
The Royal
Historical Society Bibliography on CD-ROM
This is a
comprehensive database of references to literature on the history of Britain,
Ireland, and the British abroad. The database includes approximately 250,000
records detailing most of the books and articles on these subjects published
between 1901 and 1992, and many from before then. The bibliography covers
Britain and Ireland during all periods for which written documentation is
available - from 55BC to the 1980s. The CD-ROM allows you to search by author
or title of work, by subject, by date of publication, or by period of interest
to find references to sources including not only books, but also articles in
journals, and articles in books (such as conference proceedings and
festschriften). Different kinds of enquiry can be used together in a single
search, and searches can be saved and combined, to carry out complex queries
and find extremely specific information. Full search facilities are available
for publications since 1945 (and some earlier publications, particularly those
on Imperial and Commonwealth history). Bibliographical information about
earlier publications can be searched at the same time as more recent material -
an extremely useful function for those seeking material on specific individuals
or places.
The Irish
Times database from Dialog contains the complete text of The Irish Times, one
of Ireland's best known daily newspapers. The Irish Times newspaper is
published in Dublin, Monday through Saturday.
Published
since 1859, The Irish Times has come to be acknowledged as Ireland's leading
journal of opinion and information. There is a commitment to give special
consideration to the views of minorities. A readership survey by the
International Herald Tribune recorded that The Irish Times was in the top ten
of the best daily newspapers in the world, reflecting the widespread
international respect for the distinctive qualities of the newspaper.
The Irish
Times is also famous for its Arts coverage; no other national newspaper
provides the amount of space or the breadth of coverage. There are 6
supplements to the newspaper available throughout the week including Sport,
Education, Property and Business. The Irish Times is read by 85% of Ireland's
leading business decision-makers. The Irish Times covers the island, north and
south, driven by a desire for accuracy, comprehensiveness and fairness. Dates Covered: February 1999 to the present
File Size: 12,000 records as of April 1999 Update Frequency: Daily.
FARMING SINCE
THE FAMINE: IRISH FARM STATISTICS 1847
-1996
Farming since
the Famine provides the only comprehensive overview of Irish Agriculture since
the Great Famine in the late 1840s. The CD-ROM contains authoritative
commentary from leading professionals, researchers and academics in the field
compiled by the Central Statistics Office of Ireland and is a must for any
researcher, student, or business practitioner in this arena. Areas covered
include:
* General
Information and statistical methodology
* A statistical
Perspective on Two centuries of Irish Agriculture 1672-1905
* The Extent
of the Potato Crop in Ireland at the Time of the Famine
* Internal
Cattle Trade Movements.
Not only does
the product contain leading commentaries, but for the first time completes
electronic statistical data is also supplied. National, regional and county
information is available at the click of a key; all in easy to view and print
table format. A complimentary paper publication is also included.
Tables
include:
* Areas under
Crops by year and by county 1847-1996
* Number of
Livestock in the State and in each county June 1847-1996
* Numbers of
Holdings classified by holding size by county in the State 1847-1996
* Northern
Ireland Numbers of Livestock in each county by year 1847 - 1996
* Northern
Ireland Number of Holdings classified by holding size June 1855 -1991
* State
population by province and by county 1841- 1996
Irish
Records Index Vol.1
Records
at the National Archives of Ireland
Eneclann and
Lendac present a comprehensive index to the Testamentary Records in the
National Archives of Ireland (formerly the Public Record Office). Designed by
genealogists, compiled by professional archivists, edited by historians, and
using the very best search software available, this CD-ROM is the first volume
in a new series of sources for Irish genealogy. This first volume covers all 32
counties for this poorly documented period.
It contains
over 70,000 individual records with:
* over
100,000 names
* over 10,000
surnames and variants
* over 1,000
different occupations
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Kinnock. Created by Bell & Howell Information and Learning, KnowEurope
provides information about the European Union (EU). It brings together 54,000
pages of authoritative, up-to-date information in one source, and is closely
integrated with EU databases such as EUR-Lex and RAPID.
"KnowEurope
gives direct access to a wide variety of authoritative European Union information,
and as a consequence, contributes directly to the transparency of the Union and
provides invaluable information about the Union," says Neil Kinnock, Vice
President of the European Commission.
KnowEurope
can be used by a wide range of people from students to executives, librarians
to lecturers. Businesses are able to examine EU regulations directly and
determine the impact of EU decisions on their industries. Government officials
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the origins of the Common Agricultural Policy. Researchers around the world can
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and current awareness material from European Voice and European Access Plus.
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KOZ.com's Community Publishing System (CPS), which will be renamed
bigchalkCommunity.
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The
International Index to Music Periodical Full Text (IIMP Full Text) is the
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provides indexing, abstracting and selected full-text coverage of the most
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IIMP Full Text find relevant research articles through its thesaurus-controlled
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IIMP Full
Text is a growing database of bibliographic records including abstracts and
selected full text. It contains more than 70,000 current records from more than
375 international journals, plus more than 165,000 retrospective citations from
142 periodicals. It also contains the complete runs of 29 titles from 1874 onwards.
IIMP Full Text provides the full text of current articles, from 1996 onwards,
from 42 of the most important music journals. The database is dynamic. An
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BOWKER-SAUR
BHI
Archive CD-ROM 1962-1997
BHI PLUS was
first published in 1962 in printed format, the CD-ROM has been available since
1989 and has proved to be an indispensable part of any current humanities
serials collection, as well as an excellent historical reference. Now Bowker-Saur is pleased to announce the
arrival of the BHI Archive PLUS which will be available from April 2000. The
New CD takes all the valuable searching criteria, display and output options
from the BHI CD. However, the Archive CD will also incorporate all the data
from 1962 to 1984, never before in an electronic format.
The BHI
Archive PLUS, spans the years 1962 to 1997 on one CD-ROM and features over
600,000 records, which are easily accessible with user-friendly Windows
software. With the powerful searching features of the BHI database, it is ideal
for both novice and experienced users alike. The archived data, combined with
all the information from 1985 to 1997, will give you an invaluable reference
tool, allowing you to locate, print or download humanities information dating
back to 1962.
ASSIAnet.co.uk
Applied
Social Sciences Index & Abstracts on the Web is an essential tool for all
social science serial collections. ASSIAnet is the Web version of Applied
Social Sciences Index & Abstracts, the international abstracting &
indexing tool for health & social science professionals, is available
now. As a current awareness resource
for social sciences, ASSIAnet is second to none. It provides abstracts form
around 600 UK, US & International journals. Coverage includes all branches
of the applied social sciences, with over 240,000 records dating back to 1987.
ASSIAnet is updated every two weeks to ensure that subscribers can retrieve the
latest material on social services, health, economics, politics, race relations
& education. ASSIAnet with its
unique subject coverage, is the only major abstracting & indexing service
covering both sociology & psychology, making it the strongest single source
for the caring professional. With an international focus ASSIAnet, pulls
information from a wide selection of journals & other news sources from 16
different countries to offer readers an unparalleled level of coverage, acting
as a complete social science tool for both practical & academic
disciplines.
Library and
Information Science Abstracts (LISA) the international abstracting and indexing
database from Bowker-Saur has undergone a major review, and has been re-focused
to ensure that it more closely meets the needs of librarians and information
scientists on an international basis.
The changes that can now be seen in the database are as follows:
Fifteen
relevant journals that are only available in electronic format will now be
included, plus LISA has included selected archives of these titles.....Over 40
new titles have been included for selective abstracting.....Selected daily
newspapers and business magazines will be covered, and appropriate articles
added to the database, and finally, there will be a number of new subject
focuses, including:
Life long
learning
Information
literacy
Knowledge
Management
Information
systems management
Management
issues
LISA is
available as a quarterly CD-ROM.
CONTEXT
Context will
further broaden the JUSTIS.com Internet service with the addition of a
comprehensive new Human Rights database. The new service is being produced following
consultation between The Lord Chancellor's Department, The Court Service and
Context. The new database will be available in May 2000, several months prior
to the implementation of the Human Rights Act in October. The database will encompass three key
aspects of this increasingly important area of law:
* Case law
from the European Court of Human Rights
* Conventions
and protocols
* Relevant UK
legislation
The first
section will contain 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 will be searchable using the usual JUSTIS.com search fields, such as Court,
Parties, Judges, Headnote etc. The
second section will contain European Human Rights Conventions including:
* European
Convention on Human Rights and its 11 Protocols
* European
Agreements relating to Persons participating in Proceedings of the European
Court of Human Rights
* European
Social Charter and its 3 Protocols plus the revised version
* European
Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment and its 2 Protocols
* European
Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the Convention for the
Protection of National Minorities
The final
piece of the jigsaw will be the Human Rights Act 1998 c.42 presented in its
consolidated form, incorporating any amendments made by subsequent UK
legislation.
If you would
like to receive further information closer to the May release date of the Human
Rights database please send an e-mail to info@lendac.ie
Kluwer
Academic Medical Journals Added to Journals@Ovid
Ovid
Technologies and Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) announced the addition of
five Kluwer Academic medical journal titles to Journals@Ovid. The five journals
join a growing list of almost 400 electronic full text journal titles in Ovid´s
aggregated electronic full text database, which is available exclusively via
Ovid Online and LRSNet. Ovid will begin offering the journals via Journals@Ovid
this Spring, beginning with the January 2000 issues. The five KAP titles being added to Journals@Ovid are:
* Annals of
Oncology - the official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology
* Breast
Cancer Research and Treatment - a key source of communication for presenting
pertinent treatment of and investigations in breast cancer
*
Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy - an authoritative source of current and
relevant news indispensable for cardiologists
* Journal of
Inherited Metabolic Disease - the official journal of the Society for the Study
of Inborn Errors of Metabolism
* Journal of
Neuro-Oncology - a multidisciplinary journal encompassing basic, applied, and
clinical investigations in all research areas as they relate to cancer and the
central nervous system
New Features
and Enhancements Announced for SilverPlatter Information's SilverLinker!!
Several new features
and enhancements will be added to SilverPlatter Information's SilverLinker
technology, offering a complete solution for integrating bibliographic
references with the corresponding full text.
Enhancements to be added to SilverLinker include filtering by journal
title; links to a broader variety of electronic providers; links to select
local collections; and the availability of the service on Internet and Partner
Hosted Servers. SilverLinker technology
integrates links from SilverPlatter bibliographic databases to full text
through web links to electronic journal online services; links to locally
hosted electronic journal collections and Library Catalogs for queries of
library holdings; and links to document delivery from select providers. Customers can take advantage of
SilverLinker whether they choose to access SilverPlatter databases via The
SilverPlatter Internet Service; The Partner Hosted Internet Service or through
The SilverPlatter Intranet Solution.
"Libraries
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implementing user-specific configurations. Administrators can filter online
journal link displays by individual journal as well as by service
provider," said Carol Meyer, SilverLinker Product Manager. "Each individual
user, department or consortia member will only see links to journals to which
they subscribe, or which are relevant to them. This means that researchers will
not find themselves in a blind alley."
Ms. Meyer also explained that mirror site displays will also be fully
configurable, so that institutions can specify the sites through which the
journal is accessed.
"Administration
of SilverLinker is very simple," said Jenny Walker, Technology Product
Manager. "Libraries can upload electronic files listing online journal
subscriptions to automatically filter links by journal, eliminating the need to
enable each journal separately," she explained. The newest release of SilverLinker will allow libraries to link
to select local collections of electronic journals in addition to the existing
ability to link to publishers' web sites to access journals. SilverLinker features mean that collection
decisions are completely within the librarian's control. Librarians will not
have to spend money on titles that have no appeal or use to users. Many journal
titles are available from multiple service providers, so librarians are free to
make their best deal with publishers or agents, and then display only the links
to the services that are accessible to their users. "SilverPlatter's
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deciphering the meta data and URL structure of multiple journal sites,"
said Ms. Meyer. "And with nearly 100 databases now available with
SilverLinker technology, (and many more on the horizon,) a broad range of
subject areas is now available ranging from the humanities and social sciences
to business, science, medicine and more."
The
SilverLinker database contains more than 4,000 unique journal titles, and
nearly one million unique article links.
The EMBASE
Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) database will soon be available from
SilverPlatter. This database is a subset of the EMBASE database from Elsevier
Science. EMBASE is a comprehensive pharmacological and biomedical database
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The database,
which is available only from SilverPlatter, will be updated quarterly, includes
more than 400,000 records from journals, papers, presentations and conference
proceedings from around the world.
EMBASE EBM will be available via the Internet, CD-ROM or on hard disk
and is available for all SilverPlatter platforms. The database will also be
SilverLinker enabled, which means that users will be able to link from the bibliographic
citation to the article if the institution subscribes to that publication; or
link to document delivery services or InterLibrary Loan (ILL.) The product will
also make use of the EMTREE Thesaurus which makes searching the database for
relevant material much easier.
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CORPORATE INFORMATION:
At the behest
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the "Group") has made the following clarification statement:
Further to
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consideration that will enable it to repay all of its outstanding debt obligations.
In addition these discussions also involve a strategic alliance and equity
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Group's technologies and software as well as provision of content reseller
rights. In addition Dialog has also secured agreement for a further equity
injection from another third party with interests in global high technology
developments.
Post the ISD
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will consist of the E-Commerce ("ECD") and Web Solutions
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compared to 1998. In addition Dialog will form a new division, Internet
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Assuming
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enable these divisions to be developed.
The
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conclusion on satisfactory terms, also involve securing agreement with Dialog's
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successfully concluded, details of the proposals will be sent to both
shareholders and bondholders for their approval.
A further
announcement will be made as and when appropriate.
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the electronic
full text of The Lancet will no longer be included with our aggregated full
text Core Biomedical Collection (CBC). Local Core Biomedical Collection
customers will continue to have access to and receive updates for The Lancet as
part of CBC through the year 2000. After this time, they can access their
1993-2000 Lancet archive by mounting earlier Core Biomedical Collection CDs and
they will continue to have access to this electronic full text archive. For
online customers, their subscription to the electronic full text of The Lancet
on Ovid expires on their renewal date. However, at that time, they will gain
access to Ovid's "The Lancet archive" database. The Lancet archive
database consists of all issues of the journal from 1993 to 2000, and is included
with their Ovid Online subscription. They will not be charged for The Lancet
archive access.
Ovid
Technologies and Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) announced today the addition
of five Kluwer Academic medical journal titles to Journals@Ovid. The five
journals join a growing list of almost 400 electronic full text journal titles
in Ovid´s aggregated electronic full text database, which is available
exclusively via Ovid Online. Ovid will begin offering the journals via
Journals@Ovid this Spring, beginning with the January 2000 issues.
"Adding
these important medical journals to Journals@Ovid creates an additional outlet
for these titles next to our own Kluwer Online platform. This is in line with
our strategy to continuously develop ways and opportunities to make our content
available world wide in an efficient and timely manner to the researcher,"
said Caroline Vogelzang, Vice President - Commercial Services for Kluwer
Academic Publishers in Dordrecht.
"We are very
pleased that Kluwer Academic has decided to aggregate these five important
journals with Ovid," said Leslie Hawke, Ovid´s Associate Director of
Publisher Relations. "Our aggregated model lets end users search hundreds
of medical journals from multiple publishers together, in one database and with
one interface. When we add key titles like these, we obviously make
Journals@Ovid more valuable to the researcher, but we also increase the value
of the individual journals."
The five KAP
titles being added to Journals@Ovid this month are:
* Annals of
Oncology - the official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology
* Breast
Cancer Research and Treatment - a key source of communication for presenting
pertinent treatment of and investigations in breast cancer
*
Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy - an authoritative source of current and
relevant news indispensable for cardiologists
* Journal of
Inherited Metabolic Disease - the official journal of the Society for the Study
of Inborn Errors of Metabolism
* Journal of
Neuro-Oncology - a multidisciplinary journal encompassing basic, applied, and
clinical investigations in all research areas as they relate to cancer and the
central nervous system
Ovid
Technologies (www.ovid.com), a Wolters Kluwer International Healthcare company,
is a leading provider of electronic information to the scientific, technical
and medical markets. Headquartered in New York, Ovid develops sophisticated
search software for institutions and bundles this technology with full text, bibliographic,
and summary content databases. Ovid software is used by thousands of prominent
institutions around the world, including private and public universities,
library consortia, pharmaceutical firms, hospitals and governmental
organizations.
Following on
the success of its aggregated, searchable journals database, Journals@Ovid,
Ovid Technologies announced today a new content product, Books@Ovid. With a
focus on medical, nursing, and drug-related content, Books@Ovid is a database
containing electronic versions of important reference textbooks from multiple
publishers, all aggregated and integrated under a single search engine and
interface developed specifically to search, retrieve, browse, and display book
content.
With today´s
unveiling at the Online Information ´99 exhibition in London, Books@Ovid
features 14 titles from two publishers: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and
McGraw-Hill. The database is expected to grow substantially in coming months,
with the addition of dozens more text reference titles from Lippincott Williams
& Wilkins and other publishers. Ovid is also working out an agreement with
Oxford University Press for the Oxford Textbook of Medicine and other OUP
medical reference works. By the end of 2000, Ovid expects to have 35 definitive
text references available via Books@Ovid.
Ovid´s
journals database, Journals@Ovid, was launched in June 1998 with 80 journal
titles and now contains over 350 titles from 66 publishers.
As with
Journals@Ovid, Books@Ovid customers can subscribe to any number of individual
book titles in the database, title-by-title. Books@Ovid is a Web-based product
and is availble exclusively via Ovid Online.
Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins
Nine
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) titles will be available with the
initial release of Books@Ovid. These titles offer a cross section of general
medicine, nursing and pharmacy, including Kelley´s Textbook of Internal
Medicine 3/E-a bestselling general reference; Nettina´s The Lippincott Manual
of Nursing Practice, 6/E and Carpenito´s Nursing Care Plans and Documentation.
Forthcoming
Books@Ovid titles published by LWW will provide detailed and definitive
coverage of medical specialties. Topol´s Textbook of Cardiovascular
Medicine,Yamada´s Textbook of Gastroenterology, Greenfield´s Principles and
Practice of Surgery, and many others have set new standards for text references
in their respective fields and are scheduled for addition to Books@Ovid early
in 2000. Also, available in early 2000 will be Griffith´s 5-Minute Clinical
Consult 2000 by Mark R. Dambro, the bestselling annual for quick reference and
review in the clinical setting.
McGraw-Hill
Five volumes
in McGraw-Hill´s "Currents" series are also available with the launch
of Books@Ovid: Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment and four specialty
editions: Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Cardiology, Current Diagnosis and
Treatment in Gastroenterology, Current Pediatric Diagnosis and Treatment, and
Current Obstetric and Gynecologic Diagnosis and Treatment. The
"Currents" texts are widely used, prestigious sources for physicians,
residents, and students alike.
Books@Ovid
Searching, Navigation, and Interface FeaturesBooks@Ovid offers many searching
and navigation features to end-users. Users can cross-search many titles-by
title, author, subject, or keyword-under a single interface, and move freely
between different texts to locate essential facts without losing their place.
Books@Ovid also offers all of the high-quality photographs and illustrations in
the print versions-both thumbnail and full size.
Several of
the electronic textbooks in Books@Ovid will be updated as frequently as four
times a year, ensuring that the Books@Ovid versions are the most up-to-date
available. As textbooks are updated more frequently in the future, Ovid will
work with publishers to load those updates using techniques and technologies
similar to those that have been successful in providing a high degree of
currency in the company´s 350-plus title aggregated journal product.
Ovid
Technologies, a Wolters Kluwer International Healthcare Company, is a leading
provider of electronic information to the scientific, technical and medical
markets. Headquartered in New York, Ovid develops sophisticated search software
for institutions and bundles this technology with full text, bibliographic, and
summary content databases. Ovid software is used by thousands of prominent
institutions around the world, including private and public universities,
library consortia, pharmaceutical firms, hospitals and governmental organizations.
Ovid
Technologies announced today that it has reached a licensing agreement with BMJ
Publishing Group to offer Clinical Evidence, their bi-annual compendium of
common clinical interventions. Ovid expects to begin offering this resource via
Ovid Online and Ovid Biomed, Ovid´s UK server, next year.
Clinical
Evidence is a six-monthly updated compendium of evidence on the benefits and
harms of common clinical interventions. Unlike other evidence-based products,
its contents are driven by important and common questions facing the everyday
practicing clinician rather than the availability of research evidence. It
provides concise summaries of the current information about the prevention and
treatment of a range of conditions. Sections are based on evidence provided by
a review of the medical literature and focusing on randomized controlled trials
and systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials. Each issue updates and
expands the publication´s coverage, with emphasis placed on the common
questions which a clinician faces every day. Clinical Evidence results from a
rigorous process aimed at ensuring that the information contained is both
reliable and relevant to everyday clinical practice. Topics and questions are
based on a survey of frequently occurring clinical conditions and relevant
responses. The literature is searched using the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE(r),
EMBASE and, occasionally, other electronic databases, looking first for good
systematic reviews and for primary studies with designs that are most
appropriate for answering these questions. The conclusions are extensively
reviewed by experts before inclusion.
"Getting
information out to the practicing clinician with our Clinical Information
Products, such as Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews, has been one of Ovid´s main
aims for some time now. Clinical Evidence allows us to extend our coverage in
this important area," said Diane Koen, Vice-President of Sales and
Marketing.
Ovid
Technologies, a Wolters Kluwer International Healthcare Company, is a leading
provider of electronic information to the scientific, technical, academic,
corporate and medical markets. Headquartered in New York, Ovid develops
sophisticated search software for institutions and bundles this technology with
full text, bibliographic, and summary content databases. Ovid software is used
by thousands of prominent institutions around the world, including private and
public universities, library consortia, pharmaceutical firms, hospitals and
governmental organizations.
SilverPlatterÒ
Information and Science DirectÒ have announced an agreement to enable links
from abstracts in SilverPlatter databases to the full text articles within
ScienceDirect. This agreement gives customers seamless linking from abstracts
to the full text in ScienceDirect at the article level. Utilizing SilverLinkerÒ
, SilverPlatter's full-text solution, customers can access primary literature.
"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, and currently offers its 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
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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
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SilverPlatter
combines breakthrough search, retrieval, networking and administrative
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technical reference databases, providing flexible, effective solutions in
Internet, client/server and CD-ROM formats. SilverPlatter Information publishes
reference databases in electronic formats to provide librarians and knowledge
workers in research-oriented organizations with excellent searching, accurate
results and seamless links to full content sources. SilverPlatter's website is
located at www.silverplatter.com
The American
Institute of Physics (AIP) and SilverPlatter Information have partnered to
provide links to several scientific journals hosted on AIP's Online Journal
Publishing Service (OJPS) from SilverPlatter databases. The process utilizes
SilverLinker, SilverPlatter's solution for linking from bibliographic
references to full-text journal articles.
AIP's OJPS
platform will include nearly 100 journals in 2000. Journals currently available
include those of AIP, the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of
America, the American Vacuum Society, the American Association of Physics
Teachers, SPIE-International Society of Optical Engineers, the Biomedical
Engineering Society, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and
the Acoustical Society of America. These will be part of the SilverLinker
agreement.
SilverLinker
provides article-specific URL links that enable linking directly to the article
the user wants, not just to the top level of the electronic journal.
"These
prestigious physics titles will greatly enhance our engineering
offerings," said Carol Meyer, SilverLinker Product Manager.
"AIP is
committed to making the scientific and technical literature as seamlessly
accessible as possible to the end user," said Tim Ingoldsby, AIP's
director of business development. "Links from SilverPlatter databases to
the journals of AIP and its OJPS clients are an important part of this effort.
We are pleased to be working with SilverPlatter to bring this added value to
its customers."
The American
Institute of Physics is a not-for-profit organization that provides publishing
services to scientific and engineering societies. AIP's Online Journal
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AIP publishes such core physics journals as Applied Physics Letters and Journal
of Applied Physics as well as the magazine Physics Today. The AIP website is
located at www.aip.org
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Sample
Documents
Please see a
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AltMedDex(tm)
Monographs (currently & soon to be available)
5- HTP
Acetyl-Carnitine
Adonis
Adrenal
Extracts African Stargrass Agrimony
ALA
Alfalfa
Aloe
Androstenedione Angelica Root Anise
Arginine
Arnica
Artichoke
Asparagus Astragalus Avena
Barberry
Bee Pollen
Belladonna
Beta-Carotene
Betaine
Betel Nut
Betony
Bilberry
Biotin
Birch
Bismuth
Subsalicylate
Bitter Melon
Bitter Orange
Bittersweet
Nightshade
Black Cherry
Black Cohosh
Black Root
Black Walnut
Blackberry
Blackthorn
Bladderwrack
Blessed
Thistle
Bloodroot
Blue Cohosh
Blue Green
Algae
Bog Bean
Boldo
Boneset
Borage Oil
Boric Acid
Boswellia
Boxwood
Brewer's
Yeast
Bromelain
Broom
Buchu
Buckthorn
Bugleweed Burdock Root Butcher's Broom Cajuput Oil Calamus
Calcium
Calendula
Calf Thymus
Extract
Camphor
Cannabis
Caprylic Acid
Cascara
Castor Oil
Catechu
Catnip
Cat's Claw
Cayenne
Celandine
Centaury
Cernilton
Chamomile
Chaparral
Charcoal
Chaste Tree
Chenodeoxycholic
Acid
Chinese
Cucumber
Chitin
Chlorophyll
Choline
Chondroitin
Chromium
Cinchona
Cineraria
Maritima
Citronella
Cloves
Coenzyme Q-10
Coleus
Forskolii
Colostrum
Coltsfoot
Comfrey
Coriolus
Versicolour
Cranberry
Crataegus
Creatine
Cysteine
Damiana
Dandelion Deer/Elk
AntlerVelvet
Devil's Claw
DGL
DHA
DHEA
Digitalis Diosimin DMG
Dong Quai
Echinacea EPA
Evening
Primrose
False Unicorn Fennel Fenugreek Feverfew Flaxseed Fluoride
Folic Acid
FOS
Fumaric Acid
Fumitory
GABA
Gamma
Oryzanol Garcinia
Garlic
GBL
Gentian
Germander GHB
Ginger
Gingko
Ginseng,
Panax
Ginseng,
Siberian
GLA
Glandulars
Glucomannan
Glucosamine Glutamine Glutathione Glycine Goldenrod Goldenseal Gossypol Gotu
Kola
Gou-ten
Grape Seed
Extract
Grapefruit
Seed Extract
Green Tea
Guggul Gymnema
HER
Hesperidin
HGH
Hops
Horse
Chestnut Huperzine A Hyssop
Inositol
Hexaphosphate
Iodine
Ipecac
Ipriflavone
Iron
Ivy
Jewel Weed
Juniper
Kaolin
Kava
Kelp
KH-3
K hat
Khella
Kombucha
Kudzu
Lactobacillus Laminaria Lavender
L-Carnitine Lemongrass
Licorice
Liferoot
Linden
Linoleic Acid
Lobelia Lorenzo's Oil Lycopene
Lysine
Maca Root
Mace
Magnesium Mahuang Maitake
Malic Acid
Mannose Marshmallow MCP Meadowsweet
Melatonin
Melissa
Mercaptic
Acid Methionine
Milk Thistle
Mistletoe
Monascus Monkshood
MSM
Myrtol
NAC
NADH
Neem
Nettle
New Zealand
Green-lipped
Mussel
Niacin
Niacinamide
Octacosonal
Olive Leaf
Onion
OPC
Oregano
Pancreatin
Pantocrine Pantothenic Acid Papain
Passion
Flower
Pau D'arco
Pennyroyal Peppermint Periwinkle Permethrin
P eruvian
Balsam Phenylalanine Phosphatidylcholine Phosphatidylserine Podophyllum
Potassium
Potency Wood
Proprionyl-L
Carnitine
Prunella
Psyllium
Pumpkin Seed
Pygeum Africanum Pyruvate
Quercetin
Red Bush Tea
Red Clover
Red Yeast
Rice Reishi
Rosemary
Royal Jelly
Safflower
S AMe
Sassafras
Saw Palmetto
Schizandra Scullcap
Sea Cucumber
Selenium
Senna
Shark
Cartilage
Shepherd's
Purse
Shitake
Slippery Elm
Bark
SOD
Sodium
Soy
Squalene
St. John's
Wort Stevia
Sulfur
Suma Extract
Tea Tree
Thymic
Extract
Tribulus Extract
Turmeric
Tyrosine
Undecylenic
Acid
Ursodeoxycholic
Acid
Uva-Ursi
Valerian Vanadium Vitamin A Vitamin B-1 Vitamin B-12 Vitamin B-2 Vitamin B-6
Vitamin C Vitamin D Vitamin E Vitamin H Vitamin K
Whey Protein
Wild Yam
Witch Hazel
Yarrow
Yohimbe
Yucca
Zinc
AltMedDex(tm)
Consults (currently and soon to be available)
5-HTP -
Impurities
Adrenal
Extracts
Adverse
Events Associated with Ephedrine-
containing
Products
AltMedDex(tm)
Editorial Policy
Ambofilin
American
Feverfew - Allergy
Angel's
Trumpet - Lethal Poisoning
Anti-HIV
Activity of MGN-3
Aristolochia
Arsenic
Poisoning
Ashwaganda
Bai Zhi -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Ban Xia -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Bee Venom
Blueberries -
Antioxidant Activity
Botanical
Safety Handbook Terms
-Definitions
Bovine
Cartilage
Cang Er Zi -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Cellasene
Chai Hu -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Chaparral-Induced
Hepatitis
Chinese
Herbal Medicines - Poisonings
Chinese
Herbal Names
Chinese
Herbal Remedies - FDA Warnings
Chitosan -
Weight Loss
Chlorella -
Mini-Review
Cho Low Tea -
FDA Report
Chomper - FDA
Warnings
Chuan Bei Mu-
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Chuan Xiong -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Chuifong
Tokuwan - Cadmium and Lead
Exposure
Colostrum
Cong Er Zi -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Copper
Supplementation - Effects on
Cholesterol
Cordyceps -
Chinese Longevity Herb
Da Huang -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Deaths
Associated with a Purported
Aphrodisiac
Deer Velvet -
Mini-Review
Di Gu Pi -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Dictionary -
Complementary & Alternative
Medicine
Dihomogamma-Linoleic
Acid (DGLA)
Dimethyl
Glycine (DMG) - General Use
Fu Ling -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Fu Zi -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Gamma
Butyrolactone (GBL) - FDA
Warnings
Garcinia
Cambogia - Antiobesity Agent
Ge Gen -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
German
Commission E - Approved Herbs
German
Commission E - Unapproved Herbs
Glucomannan -
Mini-Review
Gossypol -
Contraceptive
Gou Qi Zi -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Grapefruit
Juice - Drug Interactions
Grapefruit
Seed Extract
Gua Di -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Helichrysi
Herbal
Fen-Phen - FDA Warnings
Herbal
Supplements - Dosing
Herbal
Supplements - Hepatotoxicity
Herbal
Supplements - Quality & Efficacy
Herbal
Supplements - Safety
Herbal
Supplements
-Contamination/Adulteration
Herbal Tea -
Anticholinergic Poisoning
Herbalife
Ho Show Wu -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Homeopathy -
FDA Report
Homeopathy -
What Is It?
Hong Hua -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Hou Po -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Hoxsey Treatment
Huang Lian -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Human Growth
Hormone (HGH)
Hydroxyethylrutosides
(HER)
Jerusalem
Artichoke
Jin Bu Huan -
Toxicity
Jui-induced
Thrombocytopenia
Kirwin
Mixture - Formula
Kombucha Tea
- Unexplained Illness
L-Glutamine
Lead
Poisoning - Folk Remedies
Liliverum -
Treatment of Cancer
Lithospermum
Liver
Extracts
Long Dan -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Ma Qian Zi -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Medicinal
Herbal Therapy of AIDS
Medicinal
Leech - Availability and Use
Megavitamin
Therapy
Metabolife
Modified
Citrus Pectin - Mini-Review
Noni -
Mini-Review
Nut
Consumption Decreases Cardiac Risk
Nutmeg -
Treatment of Diarrhea
Ornithine
PABA
Pancreatic
Enzymes
Pantethine -
Effect on Cholesterol
PC-SPES -
Treatment of Prostate Cancer
Pennyroyal -
Toxicity
Phenylalanine
and Depression
Plantain -
FDA Warnings
Pregnancy
Risk Categories
Purple Grapes
- Coronary Artery Disease
Pygnogenol
Rose Hips -
Vitamin C Content
Saiboku-Tu -
Efficacy in Asthma Patients
Sairei-To
San Qi - Chinese
Herb Mini-review
Seaweed -
Labor Induction
Septicemia
Associated with Rattlesnake Powder
Shan Zha -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
She Xiang -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Sleeping
Buddha Dietary Supplement- FDA Warnings
Smilax
Officinalis
Spleen Extracts
Suan Zao Ren
- Chinese Herb Mini-review
Sup-Herb
Toxicity - FDA Warnings
Superoxide
Dismutase (SOD) - Mini-review
Supplements
Associated with Illnesses and Injuries
Sweet Clover
Taurine
Tea - Effects
on Blood Pressure
Tian Hua Fen
- Chinese Herb Mini-review
Titles and
Degrees of CAM Practitioners
Triax - FDA
Warnings
Tryptophan
US Government
Sponsored CAM Research
Vitamin B15
Vitamins -
Synonyms
Wild Yam -
Mini-review
Wu Bei Zi -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Xuan Shen -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Yan Hu Suo -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Yu Jin -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
Zhi Ai -
Chinese Herb Mini-review
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The Dialog Worldwide
Database Catalogue now available as a PDF document (255 pages, 1,165Kb)--or in
html. The 1999 Catalogue contains detailed descriptions of the databases
available on The Dialog Corporation's Dialog and DataStar services. Also
included is information about Web solutions, gateway services, and
Dialindex/OneSearch categories and CROS groups.
A statistical
eye on Europe
The French,
reputedly Europe's greatest wine-lovers, drink the equivalent of 14.1 litres of
pure alcohol each per year. However this only puts them in second place behind
the Luxemburgers (14.5 litres). The soberest of Europe's citizens, according to
statistical evidence, are the Norwegians and Icelanders, who only drink 4.8
litres of alcohol per person per year. Meanwhile Greeks smoke an average of 3
020 cigarettes a year each, almost twice the EU average of 1 649. The Swedes
(893) and the Finns (817) seem to have been the best at taking EU health
directives on board. European women wait on average till the age of 29 to give
birth. In Sweden 54% of live births occurred out of wedlock, with similar
figures in Norway (49%) and Denmark (46%). By comparison, Greece (3%) and Italy
(8%) are conservative. European woman bear an average of 1.44 children, far
fewer than American women (2.06). And what about the European physique? We seem
to be getting bigger. Comparisons between the average height of European men
and women aged 15-24 and those 65 and over, reveal a growth spurt of 5 cm. The
tallest Europeans are young Dutch men (182.35 cm), whilst the heaviest are
middle-aged men in Luxembourg (84.6 kg) and Austria (83.2 kg). On average the
EU citizen in full-time employment works a 42.1 hour week.
Eurostat
yearbook - A statistical eye on Europe 1987 -1997: Cat.: CA-17-98-192-EN-C (+
DA,DE,FR), ± 535 pp., 34. To obtain the publication, please contact the sales
agent nearest you.
toptop5
January, 2000
More
babies outside marriage
In 1999, the
EU registered a total 375.3 million people, the third largest population in the
world after China and India. Although population growth in the EU, at 2.0 % in
1998, is positive overall, it is still under a third of the growth rate
recorded at the beginning of the 1960s. Fertility in the EU has reached an all
time post-war low, the number of babies born in 1998 dropping to 4 million.
Statistically Ireland lays claim to the highest crude birth rate (14.4 per 1000
population) whereas Italy has the lowest level (9.0) in the EU. Divorce is also
on the rise in Europe, although southern countries recorded lower rates (less
than 1 per 1000 population) than the EU as a whole (1.8). Life expectancy in
many central European countries remains lower than in the EU, especially for
men.
Demographic
Statistics Data 1960-99: Cat.: CA-22-99-894-EN-C, ± 267 pp., 29. To obtain the
publication, please contact the sales agent nearest you.
toptop5
January, 2000
European
Parliament
Fact sheets
on the European Parliament and the activities of the EU offer a synopsis of the
EU's achievements and the part played by the European Parliament (EP) in the
development of the EU's institutions and activities. Easy-to-understand
summaries cover the EU's institutional system, inter-institutional and external
relations, financing and the whole range of EU policies: Cat.: AY-21-99-092-EN-C,
(+ FR, other languages to follow), ± 349 pp., €14. http://www.europarl.eu.int/
A guide to the European Parliament explains its general workings: Free in all
official EU languages from all EP information offices (see page 15),
http://www.europarl.eu.int/presentation/en/default.htm Annual report of the
European Ombudsman.
OJ C 300,
1999. The Amsterdam Treaty - a comprehensive guide: Free in all official EU
languages from all EU information sources (see page 15),
http://europa.eu.int/comm/represent_en.htm. To obtain the publication, please
contact the sales agent nearest you.
toptop5
January, 2000
Telecommunications:
Liberalisation must continue
The
Commission has launched a review of the current regulatory framework for
electronic communications to improve Europe's competitive position in the
information society. Mr Erkki Liikanen, Commissioner for the Information
Society, stated, 'We should not rest upon our laurels - more competition is
needed, in particular at local level where traditional operators remain
dominant. Only in this way will we be able to enjoy the full benefits of the
development of the Internet in Europe'. One in four new jobs in Europe is
created by the IT industry. A reform of the sector will remove market barriers
and put an end to cumbersome licensing procedures. Mr Liikanen proposes to
reduce the number of EU legal texts from 20 to 6. 'It is extremely important
for Europe to be an inclusive information society. We need to guarantee access
for everybody, everywhere, at affordable prices', says Mr Liikanen. The
Commission is seeking feedback from all interested parties in constructing a
new EU communications infrastructure which will cover telecommunications,
satellite, cable TV and terrestrial broadcasting networks. National regulators will
have to abide by principles of transparency, non-discrimination,
proportionality and objectivity when handing out licenses to communications
infrastructure services. The reform aims to achieve a harmonised licensing
regime and to strengthen consumer rights. The Commission welcomes views before
1 February 2000.
Two years
after the opening up the telecommunication market, Member States are
experiencing accelerated growth rates, high numbers of market entrants and falling
tariffs, states the fifth report on the telecommunications regulatory package.
National markets were worth around EUR 161 billion in 1999, almost 7% up on
1998, whilst the value of mobile services has increased by 16%. The number of
Internet hosts per thousand inhabitants grew by approximately 125% across the
EU between January 1998 and July 1999. Residential tariffs for long-distance
and international calls have fallen in most EU countries over the period 1997
to 1999, by an average of 40%. Business tariffs for similar calls are down by
25% over the same period.
COM(99) 539
fin., Jean-Eric de Cockborne, EC, DG Information Society, rue de la Loi 200,
B-1049 Brussels, e-mail: 99review@cec.eu.int, IP/99/825 on:
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/welcome.htm. To obtain the publication, please
contact the sales agent nearest you.
toptop5
January, 2000
Criterion
for enlargement
1999 progress
reports on each of the candidate countries examine the political and democratic
criterion for enlargement. The former problem child, Slovakia, has made
significant progress and the other candidate countries of central and eastern
Europe have strengthened their democratic systems. All candidates need,
however, to continue judicial reforms, fight corruption, and pay attention to
the treatment of ethnic minorities, especially the Roma population. Each
candidate country, except Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Lithuania, is
considered to be a functioning market economy, able to cope with the pressures
of a competitive marketplace. Judging the progress made in adopting EU law in
force or acquis communautaire, the Commission concedes that all candidates have
persisted in their efforts towards legal approximation. It is satisfied with
the results in Hungary, Latvia and Bulgaria. Estonia, Lithuania and Romania
have a mixed record with good progress in certain areas offset by delays in
others. Poland and the Czech Republic are criticised for their slow adoption of
Community legislation. The Commission regrets that no candidate country has set
up yet systems to monitor public aid and environmental law.
Turkey's main
problem continues to be its political system. Although the basic features of a
democratic system exist, Turkey still faces serious problems with human rights
and protection of minorities: torture is widespread and freedom of expression
is limited. In recent months there have been several legal proposals and
amendments which could have a positive impact. Apart from high inflation and
fiscal deficits, the Commission noted that good progress had been made in all
relevant areas.
Bulgaria:
COM(99) 501 fin., Cyprus: COM(99) 502 fin., Czech Republic: COM(99) 503 fin.,
Estonia: COM(99) 504 fin., Hungary: COM(99) 505 fin., Latvia: COM(99) 506 fin.,
Lithuania: COM(99) 507 fin., Malta: COM(99) 508 fin., Poland: COM(99) 509 fin.,
Romania: COM(99) 510 fin., Slovakia: COM(99) 511 fin., Slovenia: COM(99) 512
fin, Turkey: COM(99) 513 fin. More information:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/index.htm. To obtain the publication,
please contact the sales agent nearest you.
toptop4
January, 2000
Exchange
rate interventions to reduce public debt?
The European
Central Bank (ECB) has so far paid very little attention to exchange rate
policy. A discussion paper written for the European Parliament analyses a
framework for a unilateral policy to prevent an excessive appreciation of the
euro vis-à-vis the dollar. The potential of the ECB to defend a depreciation of
the euro is much more limited. However, the logic of sterilised interventions
could be used for a bilateral arrangement between the US and the euro area.
Under such an arrangement the ECB would set and defend an upper limit at, say,
1.20 dollar per euro, while the Fed would set and defend a lower limit at, say,
1.00 dollar per euro. Each central bank would take action only when their home
currency was appreciating, and so they should always be able to defend their
exchange rate target successfully against speculative attacks by the markets.
The margins would have to be adjusted according to the prevailing interest rate
differential. Experience since 1973 shows that this would have led to a very
sensible exchange rate path. Compared with the situation in the early 1970s
such cooperation in the field of exchange rate management would have the
advantage that both central banks would follow stability-oriented monetary
policies at home:
Options for
the exchange rate management of the ECB, Working Paper of the EP, DG for
Research, Cat.: AX-25-99-326-EN-C, 34 pp., 7; Another working paper from the
European Parliament analyses all the issues related to the transitional period,
the introduction of euro notes and the international development of the euro:
The Euro as 'parallel currency' 1999-2002: Cat.: AX-23-99-370-EN-C, 100 pp.,
14.50; To obtain the publications, please contact the sales agent nearest you.
toptop4
January, 2000
Trademark
protection
The Office of
Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) is located in Alicante. Its task is
to manage and register Community trademarks (CTMs) and, in the near future,
designs. The CTM grants its proprietor a uniform right, valid in all Member
States of the EU, by means of a single procedural system. This simplifies
trademark policies at a European level. Before a trademark (word, name, logo,
slogan or design) is registered, it has to be established that the mark
concerned is eligible, which means that it must be available and distinctive.
When registered, the CTM gives its proprietor the right to prohibit third
parties from using identical or similar marks to those covered by the
trademark. It also authorises transfers and licenses. The OHIM's budget is
derived mainly from registration fees charged for the services it renders to
companies and fees for the renewal of trademark protection. For more information:
OHIM, Avenida de Aguilera, 20, E-03080 Alicante, fax (34) 965 13 11 73, e-mail:
information@oami.eu.int, http://www.oami.eu.int.
Community
Trade Marks Bulletin : Cat.: AH-AD-99-099-1F-C
(1F=ES/DA/DE/GR/EN/FR/IT/NL/PT/FI/SV), annual subscription 1 500, single copy
50; Official Journal of the OHIM: Cat.: AH-AA-99-012-5D-C (5D=ES/DE/EN/FR/IT),
annual subscription 200, single copy 20. Data furnished online, under a license
agreement, 5 000 per year. Directory of Professional Representative: Cat.:
AH-22-99-967-5D-C, 25; Selected instruments relating to the Community
trademark: Cat.: AH-14-98-251-5D-C (FR), 25. National Law relating to the
Community trademark, free in English only. 34. To obtain the publication,
please contact the sales agent nearest you.
toptop4
January, 2000
Railways
losing out
Railways have
been losing out steadily to road networks in the EU, figures from 1970 to 1996
reveal. The share of railways in freight transport has decreased from 32% to
14% over the past 25 years, whereas road haulage now constitutes 70%. All
Member States have witnessed cuts in their stocks of rail goods vehicles,
particularly in the UK (- 57%), Germany (- 42%) and Sweden (- 41%). In addition
the length of railways in the EU has decreased by an average of 8%. The number
of lorries on the road, meanwhile, has risen by 150%. The transport sector as a
whole accounts for 4% of EU GNP and employs more than 6 million people. About
150 million people all over Europe travel to and from work every day. Each
person in the EU covers an average of 35 km daily. The car is an increasingly
popular means of transport for EU citizens: in 1996 there were more than 165
million cars on the roads. Italy and Luxembourg registered a higher car density
than the USA, with 571 and 559 cars respectively per 1,000 inhabitants! The
total length of motorway has increased dramatically, particularly in Greece
(from 11 km in 1970, to 470 km in 1996) and Spain (185 km in 1970, 7 747 km in
1996). Yet 25% of EU households are still without a car. Germany has the
greatest length of railway track in Europe, with 26% of the total network,
followed by France (20%). The greatest length of high speed line is in France
(52%) and the second greatest is in Spain (19%). Bus and coach use is highest
in Italy (86.6 billion passenger km per year). The transport sector accounts
for 30% of the total energy consumption in Europe.
Statistical
overview of road, rail and inland waterway transport in the EU: Cat.:
CA-22-99-757-EN-C (+DE,FR), 71 pp., 12.50; Transport business statistics, Data
1993-1996: Cat.: CA-26-99-085-EN-C, 46 pp., 7; To obtain the publications,
please contact the sales agent nearest you.
toptop4
January, 2000
The
Community Plant Variety Office
Established
in 1995, the CPVO is responsible for a new centralised EU system of plant
variety patents and copyrights. Previously plant breeders were forced to make
applications for intellectual property rights to the relevant authorities in
each Member State in order to obtain EU-wide protection. Now any individual or
company can make one general application to the CPVO and obtain the same level
of cover for their product. Applications are first verified and then a
technical examination is arranged covering the main criteria of distinctness,
uniformity and stability. The Office is entirely self-financing and therefore a
truly independent EU body. Further information: CPVO, PO Box 2141, F-49021
Angers, Cedex 02, fax (33) 241 36 84 60, e-mail cpvo@cpvo.fr,
http://www.cpvo.fr/.
Annual Report
1997: Cat.: AV-19-99-001-EN-C (+DE,FR,NL), 32 pp., 11; The Annex 1997 to the
Annual Report gives a list of protections granted: Cat.: AV-19-99-002-1F-C
(1F=ES/DA/DE/GR/EN/FR/IT/NL/PT/FI/SV), 169 pp., 15; Annex 1998: Cat.:
AV-20-99-002-1F-C (1F=ES/DA/DE/GR/EN/FR/IT/NL/PT/FI/SV), 190 pp., 15; To obtain
the publications, please contact the sales agent nearest you.
toptop4
January, 2000
Drinking
water under pressure
The major
threats to groundwater come from the use of agricultural chemicals such as fertilisers
and pesticides. Other major pressures are industrial sites or poor storage
facilities, over-abstraction for drinking water and other uses. According to
the first Pan-European report, groundwater is an important source of drinking
water in many European countries, and environmental contamination limits are
often exceeded. This is the case for nitrates and pesticides. Nitrates are a
significant problem in some areas of Europe. At the regional level more than a
quarter of the sampling wells exceeded the 50 mg NO3/litre limit established by
Directive 80/778/EEC. Further problems are pesticides detected in Europe's
groundwater, the most common being atrazine, simazine and lindane. There are
also groundwater areas with chloride problems and the pollution of groundwater
by heavy metals has likewise been reported. Groundwater over-exploitation is a
major problem in many countries. The result of over-exploitation is damage to
wetlands and saltwater intrusion. Over-abstraction is one of several factors causing
the disappearance of whole lengths of rivers and the drying out of wetlands.
The information and data were provided by 37 countries.
Groundwater
quality and quantity in Europe: Cat.: GH-18-98-607-EN-C, 123 pp., 11. To obtain
the publication, please contact the sales agent nearest you.
toptop4
January, 2000
A
greater environmental commitment?
'There is
still much to be done to set up a truly sustainable development policy', stated
Margot Wallström, EU Commissioner for the Environment, during a presentation at
the Fifth Environment Action Programme 1992-2000. EU environmental policy in
recent years has not been rigorous enough to ensure progress towards
sustainable development, mainly because there has been no clear commitment from
Member States and stakeholders. The quality of the environment in Europe has
improved nonetheless in certain areas. Problems early in the next century will
include chemicals, genetically modified organisms, degradation, loss of soil
and desertification. Growing consumption of products and services will increase
pressures on the environment . The Commission hopes that this report will
generate a major public debate on the environment.
COM(99)543
fin. To obtain the publication, please contact the sales agent nearest you.
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January, 2000
Cars,
cars, cars
Did you know
that ... the use of private cars surged ahead in the EU between 1970 and 1996?
The average number of kilometres travelled per person per year in private cars
more than doubled. However the number of kilometres travelled per person per
year by train only rose by 29%. Austrians use public transport the most, Greeks
the least. For passenger travel exceeding 100 km, the car is the most popular
means of transport, accounting for almost 70% of all trips. The train is the second
most popular means of long distances travel, but it accounts for only 10% of
all trips. Visits and leisure are the reason for 50-60% of all journeys, while
business accounts for 25-40%
Long distance
passenger travel, Statistics in Focus, No 4/1999: Cat.: CA-NZ-99-004-EN-C, 7
pp., 6. To obtain the publication, please contact the sales agent nearest you.