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The
Electronic Information Resources Division of Lendac wish all the best to Michael
Costello, who will be leaving the Company. Please contact Michael if there is
any pending queries or projects that you may have, his email address is michael@lendac.ie Good Luck,
Michael!
New
Products from Lendac
Lendac
is pleased to announce some new IRISH products that are available. One of
Lendac’s fastest growing divisions is ePublishing, so if your organisation is
looking to "go digital" and you have some notable material, let us know by
contacting Liam Chambers at liamc@lendac.ie
The
William Smith O’Brien Petition, compiled
and edited by Ruth Lawler
This
petition, from 1848-49, signed by 80,000 + people from every part of Ireland and
Liverpool, Manchester, and other parts of England is a unique historical and
genealogical resource from the period of the Famine. Who was William Smith
O’Brien? Following the failure of the 1848 rising, O’Brien was sentenced to
death, and this petition was collected the help gain clemency for the rebel
leader. He was found "not guilty" and sequestered to Australia for life. This
CD-ROM contains over 80,000 names, over 10,000 names from England, and over
70,000 names from Ireland. Price for Institutional Access: £180.00 plus VAT
(networkable, PC compatible) call 01 677 6133 to order a
copy
Available SOON: electronic
Weekly Irish Law Reports
No
more unreported judgements… the new eWILR online. Coming in March 2001,
you will be able to access all written (reserved) judgements of the Superior
Courts from July 1998, including some Circuit Court judgements. Created by Bart
D. Daly, BL, editor of Irish Times Law Reports since 1989.
eWILR
is designed to follow the exact tabulation of every page and paragraph of the
original judgement, an added bonus for accuracy in citation and brief
preparation. In addition, Lendac will be adding all National Acts and Statutory
Instruments, thus offering a comprehensive Irish eLegal service. Prices start at
£365.00 per annum! Please contact meghan@lendac.ie or phone 01-677-6133 for
further details or any other relevant queries you may
have.
MURDOCH’S
Irish Legal Companion (3rd
Edition) on CD-ROM? Sound interesting … Stay tuned.
SPECIAL
OFFERS
Some
special deals to take advantage of from Lendac and SilverPlatter are outlined
below. Give us a ring at 01-6776133 and we can set up your NEW
subscriptions!
General
Reference
Wilson’s
Biography 10 %
discount til 28th
February, 2001 for new orders
Information
Science Abstracts Plus 25% Discount til 31st March 2001 for new
orders
Polling
the Nations 10 %
discount til 28th February
2001 for new orders
Food
& Agri
FROSTI (SUPER DEAL) Existing FSTA customers get a 35% discount !!
VET-CD 20% Discount for new orders until end of
May
Health
& Safety
Fire
Worldwide 10%
discount til 28th February
2001 for new orders
Fire
CD 10%
discount til 28th February
2001 for new orders
OSH
Plus 13 Months for the price of 12 for new orders (Internet
only)
Humanities
& Social Science
MLA
International 10 %
discount til 31 March, 2001 for new
orders
FRANCIS
1) Multi-year discounts (valid until further
notice)
-2
year Subscription: Save 10% off year one list price
-3
year Subscription: Save 15% off year one list price
2) 40 % discount for INIST customers who currently subscribing to FRANCIS (1984+) and
switch to SilverPlatter´s FRANCIS (1984+) in their next subscription period –
valid for first subscription year only.
3) 25 % discount for INIST
customers who currently subscribing
to FRANCIS (current file) and switch to SilverPlatter´s FRANCIS (1984+) in their
next subscription period – valid for first subscription year
only.
The
Philosopher´s Index Multi-year discount
Save when you purchase 2 and 3 year subscriptions
-Year 1: full price, Year 2: 5% off year one list price, Year 3: 10% off year one list price
Featured
Product:
PASCAL from SilverPlatter The
world-renowned PASCAL database is a unique multidisciplinary and multilingual
bibliographic database. It covers all the major international journals, reports,
conference proceedings, periodical articles and doctoral dissertations in all
aspects of the Sciences and Medical Sciences and is an unrivalled international
bibliographic resource for professionals everywhere. Unique tri-lingual indexing
means that the records in PASCAL can be searched using French, English or
Spanish keywords, regardless of the original language of the article
concerned. To sample PASCAL, Click here (you can also check out the new
WebSPIRS 4.3 for FREE!) If you like your results, please email info@lendac.ie, we can supply you with
pricing details.
Partner
News
SilverPlatter
announces plans to add the RILM Abstracts of Music Literature to their
collection of databases. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is the premier
international bibliographic database of music scholarship, covering all areas of
music and interdisciplinary studies of music and various other fields. Produced
by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), the database covers
all significant writings on music in all types of media (books, periodicals,
conference proceedings, electronic media, etc.) produced world-wide in the last
30 years. It includes abstracts for the majority of citations, as well as
records for current citations before they are abstracted or indexed, with close
to 300,000 records from 1969 to the present and will be updated monthly. More
than 500 primary journals devoted to music are covered. Another 3500+ journals
contain articles that have been cited. The database covers writings in over 100
languages; titles are given in both the original language and English
translation, with abstracts in English, broad classifications, and author and
subject indexes.
ASM
Handbook ASM Complete and 4 ASM Collections
- a great new product from DialogonDisc electronically reproduces the ASM
Handbook making it easy to browse or search. Complete with diagrams, formulae
and references that load into separate windows for convenient viewing. Full
cross-volume searching. Annual maintenance releases will update selected volumes
and software of the complete set. Separate collections are one-off purchase with
no updates. "Being able to search all twenty volumes together gives us a really
powerful overview — and it's fantastic that every single word is searchable.
Definitely worth the money." —Stefan Kuypers, Group Leader, Centre for
Materials Advice & Analysis, Vito, Belgium Start exploring
ASM Handbook today...the industry's best-known and most comprehensive
source for information on metals and materials technology! Want more details?
Take a quick walk through here: Dialog OnDisc ASM Handbook Demo Contact info@lendac.ie for pricing
ProQuest’s
new MARC records for Early English Books Online™ are
ready to load on your OPAC, with hotlinks that take researchers straight to the
retrospective works they want...without leaving the library's search
interface. These are the definitive MARC records for every component of
EEBO. They're in standard AACR2 format, with Library of Congress subject
headings. Links in field 856 provide seamless access to the corresponding page
images in EEBO. Records for STC I and STC II are available now; records for the
Thomason Tracts, and Early English Books Tract Supplements will be available
shortly. Your patrons get immediate access to the works of their choice;
you get enhanced bibliographic control. ProQuest adds MARC records for every
"new" EEBO title we locate and digitize, with new units each year. Contact
01-677-6133 for more information or a free trial of EEBO!
MICROMEDEX
Corporate Solutions Division is pleased to introduce Ariel GlobalView – the
newest database available within the RegsKnowledge™ suite of products. Through a
partnership with Ariel Research Corporation, MICROMEDEX is now able to offer
this in-depth view of international regulatory standards and requirements. Ariel
GlobalView™, which replaces our previously offered regulated chemicals
databases (starting with Vol. 48, February 2001), delivers information
of superior accuracy and quality covering U.S. federal regulations and
international chemical inventory lists. In 2001, Ariel GlobalView will be
expanded to encompass a broader scale of regulatory and chemical information,
thereby becoming the most complete resource available. What is Ariel
GlobalView? An unprecedented view of international regulatory requirements,
Ariel GlobalView offers cutting-edge technology that fully integrates with the
entire suite of MICROMEDEX Corporate Solutions products. It delivers
comprehensive, accurate, up-to-date regulated chemicals information that is
affordable and unequalled by any other resource. Ariel GlobalView consists of
six databases, each available for individual subscriptions or as part of the
complete MICROMEDEX Corporate Solutions suite of products. The Western Europe
subset contains more than 43,000 chemical listings from directives of the
European Union, as well implementing legislation of both the EU member states
and non-member states. Please contact Don Lehane at 01-677-6133 to get your free
trial password or for pricing details!
Ovid
Technologies
announced that three exciting new products are now available via Ovid Online.
The products, MedWeaver™, produced by Unbound Medicine, Inc., Clineguide™,
produced by Clineanswers, Inc. and MedCases™, produced by MedCases, Inc., are
designed to bring the power of the Web to cutting-edge decision support and
educational tools.
MedWeaver™,
a product of Unbound Medicine, Inc, is a unique Web-based application that
facilitates better decision making. MedWeaver generates a differential diagnosis
from entered case findings and provides a rationale and in-depth disease
information for each diagnostic possibility. Powerful assisted searches through
Ovid MEDLINE further enhance the product.
Clineguide™,
developed by Clineanswers, Inc., is a state-of-the-art, interactive,
point-of-care, decision support system that delivers drug treatment and disease
management guidance into daily workflow. All disease and drug information within
Clineguide is constantly reviewed to ensure that recommendations are based on
the best available evidence. Clineguide may be customized to meet the specific
information needs of hospitals including the incorporation of hospital formulary
information.
MedCases™,
a product of MedCases, Inc., is a sophisticated learning system that delivers
patient simulations over the internet. MedCases provides medical schools and
resident programs a comprehensive database of interactive, problem-based
simulated patient encounters created in collaboration with a national consortium
of medical institutions. Please contact Meghan@lendac.ie for a FREE TRIAL or
further details…
Lendac
Postitions available
Sales/Marketing
Executives: Lendac
Data Systems require ambitious and self-motivated sales/account management staff
to consolidate and promote electronic database sales into academic research,
library, medical & pharmaceutical, government, corporate, legal,
environmental health & safety and agricultural & food sectors. An
understanding of the library/information market would be an advantage and/or
experience in one or more of the above market sectors. These are challenging
positions with the leading Irish distributor of research and information
products with over 1000 electronic titles and a fast growing catalogue of
in-house published titles. Positions available from executive to sales
management level. Ideal candidates for these positions would either have
successful sales or account management experience or alternatively experience in
one of the above market sectors (library/information, medicine, health &
safety, research) with a desire to move into a challenging IT sales/marketing
position.
Marketing
Executive: Lendac
Data Systems require experienced marketing executive to operate in our
Electronic Publishing and Electronic Information distribution sector. Successful
candidate will be the driving force in developing and implementing marketing
strategy. She/he will be involved in all aspects of the marketing mix, including
marketing plans, promotional literature, PR & advertising plans, product
announcements, press releases, promotional mail shots, organising and assisting
at exhibitions, client subscription support and Web site content maintenance.
Candidates should ideally have minimum 1-2 years marketing experience, a
marketing qualification and possess excellent verbal and written communication
skills. Candidates should be computer literate and an understanding of the
information market would be beneficial. Please email your CV to Hr@lendac.ie if you would like to
join our team
GBIP
and Ulrichsweb: FREE for a Month?
Globalbooksinprint.com
is the leading international bibliographic database, containing over 3.2 million
English-language titles, available with or without reviews, it is your
choice!
Ulrichweb
provides the quickest and easiest way to obtain information on over a
quarter-million serial publications. Together, these two databases can supply
you with an exhaustive amount of information!
Lendac
and Bowker are delighted to offer you a month’s free trial to
Globalbooksinprint.com and Ulrichweb. As a special incentive to subscribe, we
will also be giving a 10% discount to you, should you decide to subscribe to
both products. Our offer ends April 30, 2001. Please contact info@lendac.ie for more
details.
To
access GBIP(with Reviews): Go to http://www.globalbooksinprint.com
Username:
len1dac Password: ireland
To
access Ulrichsweb, go to: http://www.ulrichsweb.com
Username:
len2dac Password: ireland
Your
trial will last for 4 weeks, please feel free to contact us for pricing or
assistance at 01-677-6133, or email us at info@lendac.ie
Electronic Information Products,
Lendac Data Systems, Unit 6 Trinity College Enterprise Centre, Pearse Street,
Dublin 2.