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Proquest Newspapers!
Launch of Murdoch's Irish
Legal Companion -- For those of you who couldnt make it, and for
those of you who were there, we thought you might like to see a little of what
happened at the launch. Click: http://milc.lendac.ie/launch.htm
Lendac's new WEBSITE -- We have recently updated our website, go to www.lendac.ie to take a peak!
SliverPlatter and Lendac ERL 5.0
Roadshow is postponed until September
2001. We will keep you informed.
Virtual Studio Faclities - We would like to invite you to our showcase event tomorrow, Thursday
July 26th at the Waterways
Visitor Centre, Grand Canal Basin, Dublin 2 at 10.30am.
Please email nuala@lendac.ie if you
will attend. For further information on our Virtual Studio visit www.lendac.com/brmm/broadcast_multimedia.htm
Context- Agreement has recently been reached between Context and The
Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) to produce a version of the
ICLR’s Daily Law Notes on Justis.com.
The new service, Justis Daily Cases, will be launched this summer. Justis Daily Cases will give accurate daily
summaries of cases which will later be reported in Weekly Law Reports, The
Law Reports or Industrial Cases Reports, plus some notable cases
that will remain unreported. It will contain the most important updates from
the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal and all divisions of
the High Court, and is reported to a high standard by the ICLR’s team of
reporters and editorial staff. Justis
Daily Cases will complement the authoritative full text databases already
jointly produced by the ICLR and Context – all 136 years of The Law Reports,
all 48 years of Weekly Law Reports and all 29 years of Industrial
Cases Reports.
Bulletin of Northern Ireland Law
(Context) This
online database is derived from the printed publication Bulletin of
Northern Ireland Law and provides a digest of legal developments that
are relevant to Northern Ireland. The data starts from 1986. Comprehensive
coverage is provided of: all legislation applicable in Northern Ireland by way
of Orders in Council, Statutory Rules and Statutory
Instruments; all written judgements delivered in the Court of Appeal, the High
Court and the County Court; personal injury awards in the High Court;
Court Service Notices and information; and Practice Directions.
Selected
coverage is provided of: County Court awards in
criminal damage and criminal injury to persons claims; decisions of
Industrial Tribunals, the Fair Employment Tribunal, the Lands Tribunal, the
Planning Appeals Commission, the Social Security Commissioners and in tax
cases; relevant documents in European Union law and in the law of England
and Wales; and other items of local legal interest. Please call Lendac at
01-677-6133 if you are interested!
OVID Technologies & SilverPlatter Information- Wolters Kluwer NV announced
that it has completed the acquisition of SilverPlatter Information after
receiving regulatory clearance. SilverPlatter, a provider of medical and
scientific databases and related software, will be combined with Wolters
Kluwer's business unit Ovid Technologies (New York, NY) in a manner which takes
advantage of the complementary strengths of both companies. The combination of
Ovid and SilverPlatter will offer its customers a comprehensive channel for
medical and scientific information and research tools. SilverPlatter, with annual
sales of approximately USD 70 million, currently employs some 170 people, and
has it main offices in Boston (USA) and London (UK). Financial details of the
deal were not disclosed.
SilverPlatter's Database of the month for July: Cochrane Library New! The Cochrane Library is now available from
SilverPlatter. The Cochrane Library gives the clinician and researcher unparalleled
access to the best evidence based information available. The Library consists
of several complementary and cross-searchable segments. The three largest
segments of the database are:
The Cochrane Database of
Systematic Reviews (CDSR) - Cochrane Reviews are full text articles reviewing the
effects of healthcare. The reviews are highly structured and systematic, with
evidence included or excluded based on explicit quality criteria to minimize
bias. Data are often combined statistically (with meta-analysis), reflecting
the findings of numerous studies.
The Database of Abstracts of
Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) - DARE includes structured abstracts of systematic
reviews from around the world, critically appraised by reviewers at the NHS
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, England. It
contains references to other reviews that may be useful for background
information. More information about DARE can be obtained from the NHS Centre
for Reviews and Dissemination home page.
The Cochrane Controlled
Trials Register (CCTR) - A bibliography of controlled trials identified by
contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an
international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased
source of data for systematic reviews. CCTR includes reports published in
conference proceedings and other sources not listed in MEDLINE® or other
bibliographic databases.
Also included in The Cochrane Library, to be released later in
2001: The Cochrane Methodology
Register - a bibliography of articles and books on the science of research
synthesis A handbook on critical appraisal and the science of reviewing
research A glossary of methodological terms Contact details for Collaborative
Review Groups and other entities in the Cochrane Collaboration. View
the database prototype today and sign up for a free 30 day trial. Cochrane will
be ready to ship, including the most up-to-the minute data, and fully loaded on
SilverPlatter's Internet Service by Mid-August 2001.
Other NEW Databases from
Ovid/Silverplatter
Short Story Index Electronic Edition is the electronic version of the standard reference work Short Story
Index. The database provides easy access to fifteen years of a classic and
unique reference work. The index provides references to short stories written
in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected
periodicals. The periodicals are those indexed in Readers' Guide to periodical
Literature and Humanities Index. The database contains 69,000 short stories
entries, which include author, title and subject for stories from collections;
author and title for stories from periodicals. Subjects covered include theme,
locale, narrative technique or device (such as surprise endings, dialect
stories, parodies, story within a story) and genre. The full text of 1,175 stories
is also included.
Increased Drug Information Content
in Journals@Ovid--Three premier titles from Adis International have been added to the
Journals@Ovid collection this month:
BioDrugs -
Monthly, coverage beginning Jan 2000 BioDrugs is a journal that healthcare
decision-makers can turn to for succinct and comprehensive coverage of current
and future biotechnology drugs and immunomodulatory agents, as well as the
current and future implications of genomics and gene therapy.
CNS Drugs - Monthly, coverage beginning Jan 2000 For authoritative reviews of
disease management and optimum drug therapy of psychiatric and neurological
disease, CNS Drugs is developing into the journal healthcare decision-makers
turn to. CNS Drugs promotes rational pharmacotherapy and disease management
within the disciplines of clinical psychiatry and neurology by providing a
regular program of review articles covering important issues in the management
of psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Drugs is
the world's definitive source of evaluative drug reviews and reviews of
pharmacotherapy. It is consistently a highly ranked journal in the medicine and
pharmacology and pharmacy categories of the ISI Impact Factor listings and an
essential Library title and an invaluable teaching tool. It has become the
journal healthcare decision-makers across the world turn to for practical
reviews on disease management requiring optimum drug therapy.
ProQuest Information and
Learning unit announced an agreement
with Oxford University Press that will make 70 titles available via the
ProQuest® online information system in full text in Fall 2002. The agreement
allows ProQuest to distribute the journal content as part of its periodical
databases to educational institutions, libraries, and other markets around the
world. "We are fully committed to providing our customers – researchers,
faculty, students, and library users --with access to ‘must-have’ content of
the highest quality," said Joe Reynolds, President and CEO of ProQuest
Information and Learning. "With this agreement, we’ll not only add content
for 70 respected scholarly journals, but we’ll also improve upon access to that
information. Some titles have never been part of an aggregated database and
will make their database debut in ProQuest. Equally important, some of these
titles are currently embargoed by another database provider for 12 months. We
will be improving currency significantly on half of the titles. "We are
delighted to add the highest quality content with more currency, and include it
in the most widely used premier database products in academic libraries
worldwide," added Reynolds. Both
indexing (created by ProQuest editors) and full text for the titles will appear
in various ProQuest databases, such as ABI/INFORM®, ProQuest Research Library™,
ProQuest Discovery™, and ProQuest 5000™. Titles will include Oxford Economic
Papers, Journal of International Economic Law, American Literary History, The
Journal of Theological Studies, and many more. In addition, ProQuest will provide linking capability to current
ejournal content. This capability will provide ProQuest users (at institutions
with ejournal subscriptions) with the access they need while successfully
addressing publisher needs to support their current print and online editions.
XanEdu, a division of ProQuest, and The Economist announced a joint education
initiative that will make available by Fall 2001 digital CoursePacks guided by
editorial content from The Economist.
The co-branded, Economist CoursePacks at XanEdu will allow university
professors to draw from the long history of content at The Economist and
integrate it with XanEdu’s archive of commercial and scholarly journals,
periodicals, newspapers, books, dissertations, primary literature works and
academic collections. Student use of The Economist/XanEdu CoursePacks will also
include a 10-week print subscription to the international newsweekly. “We recognized that professors in many
disciplines require their students to draw upon the research and content from
brands they already use and trust,” said Lew Gossage, General Manager, XanEdu.
“This is XanEdu’s first of many planned initiatives to develop jointly branded
CoursePacks with leading news sources.”
The Economist has served as a benchmark publication for Economic and
Political Science courses across the country. Developed specifically with this
practice in mind, XanEdu’s co-branded CoursePacks will allow professors to
maintain their current teaching methods while harnessing the advantages of
continuously updated digitized content.
“Creating co-branded CoursePacks with XanEdu enables The Economist to
reach a broader range of the collegiate population,” said Elizabeth O’Rorke,
Chief Operating Officer of The Economist. “By making our publication more
accessible to students and faculty we hope to expand the diverse mind-share on
world issues in classrooms around the country.” First renditions of the co-branded The Economist/XanEdu
CoursePack can be previewed this month at XanEdu’s booth at the Western
Economic Association International Conference in northern California.
About XanEdu XanEdu is a division of ProQuest Information & Learning. It
publishes online and offline course materials for the higher education market,
helping faculty teach smarter and students learn smarter. XanEdu also has
amassed one of the largest commercial and scholarly archives of journals,
periodicals, newspapers, books, dissertations, primary literature works and
academic collections, through its parent, ProQuest Information & Learning. www.xanedu.com
MICROMEDEX recently introduced mobileMICROMEDEX™,
a Palm® operating-system-compatible application that puts trusted, peer
reviewed medical information conveniently into the hands of doctors, nurses,
and pharmacists. This product is the first of many products being released by
MICROMEDEX for handheld devices.
"With mobileMICROMEDEX, healthcare facilities can ensure
their doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other clinicians are using the same
reliable information on their handheld devices that they already have on their
computers," said Rick Noble, Chief Operating Officer for Thomson
Healthcare. "It's our goal to give clinicians the information they need to
reduce medical errors, and adverse effects of medications." mobileMICROMEDEX is the next step
towards reducing medical errors. According to a 2000 report by The Institute of
Medicine, more people die from medical mistakes each year than from highway
accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS.
Customers who currently subscribe to the MICROMEDEX® Healthcare Series
can download mobileMICROMEDEX at no additional cost from the most
current version of the MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series, volume 109 (June-August
2001). The content will be continually updated, and there are many new features
and functions planned for the future. The introductory mobileMICROMEDEX™
includes:
Drug Information Data - Valuable point-of-care
information including drug dosing, indications, contraindications, adverse
effects, drug interactions, safety in pregnancy and lactation. The database
allows quick access to important information using trade name, generic name,
and therapeutic class.
Alternative Medicine Data - With so many patients
taking alternative medicine products, this database provides clinicians with
the knowledge they need including dosing, uses, adverse effects, and drug-herb
interactions.
Acute Care Data - Key information for
clinicians such as diagnosis and treatment of 320 common diseases seen in
emergency rooms and emergent care situations.
Toxicology Data - Information on how to
manage more than 150 of the most common poisonings including clinical effects,
treatment, and range of toxicity data.
DIALOG has launched a new CD-ROM title, in collaboration
with Rapra Technology Ltd., called Dialog OnDisc® Rapra Abstracts.
OnDisc Rapra Abstracts provide current information relating to rubber,
plastics, and associated industries. "Both Dialog and Rapra Technology
have high expectations for this product," said Rien van den Hondel,
technical manager at Rapra Technology's Electronic Information Group. "The
addition of Rapra Abstracts to the Dialog OnDisc range unites the world's
largest database dedicated to the polymer industries with Dialog's powerful
search interfaces." The new CD-ROM title contains content dating back to
1972 and is a vital source of both practical and theoretical research data for
scientists working in the fields of rubber and plastics. Source materials
include over 500 journals, together with conference papers, patents, books,
reports, and press releases. Content is compiled from international resources,
with source material in a wide range of languages from over 30 countries in
areas such as North America, Australia, Europe, and Asia. More than 1,200 new
records are added with each bimonthly update.
"We're very pleased to strengthen our hard sciences product set by
offering the world's leading rubber and plastics database as part of the
OnDisc/Dialog@Site™ collection," said Sjoerd Vogt, general manager of the
OnDisc division of Dialog. "We're looking forward to a long and mutually
beneficial collaboration with Rapra Technology."
SilverPlatter
Information--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!
Food & Agriculture--FSTA 50
% discount on FSTA back files 1969 – 1990 till August 31, 2001
2) Multi-year discounts - valid till
December 31, 2001
Year one: Full price
Year two: 5 % off full price
Year three: 10 % off full price
Year four: 10 % off full price
Extended
Discount on FIAF International Film Archive --Discounted
pricing of 10% valid through September 30, 2001.
Extended Discount on RILM Abstracts of Music Literature-- Discounted pricing of 10% off for new subscribers is valid through
September 30, 2001. Please note this database has not been released.
Extended Discount on Bibliography of the History of Art-- Discounted pricing of 10% off for new subscribers to this database is
valid through September 30, 2001. Please note this database has not been
released.
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 pric
2
a) 40 % discount for INIST customers who currently subscribe to FRANCIS (1984+) and switch to SilverPlatter´s
FRANCIS (1984+) in their next subscription period – valid for first
subscription year only
2
b) 25 % discount for INIST customers who currently subscribe 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 (valid until further notice): 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
Science & Technology--FROSTI Existing FSTA customers get a 35% discount on the FROSTI database -
valid till December 31, 2001
PASCAL
a) 40 % discount for INIST customers who currently subscribe to Pascal
(1987+) and switch to SilverPlatter´s Pascal (1987+) in their next subscription
period - valid for first subscription year only.
b) 25 % discount for INIST customers who currently subscribe to Pascal
(current file) and switch to SilverPlatter´s Pascal (1987+) in their next
subscription period – valid for first subscription year only.
Other subjects --INIST Research Collection Special introductory year pricing for customers who subscribe to all
these SilverPlatter databases: Pascal Biomed, Pascal SciTech and FRANCIS. 10%
discount on each database for Non-INIST customers. Upon renewal for INIST
Research Collection 10 % discount on Pascal and 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
BOOKDATA - Bookfind Premier Online
(Global) and BoolWISE Service (Ireland, UK data)
Bookdata are offering a "2 free users" special for their
newest services Bookfind Premier and BookWISE. This offer stands until the end
of 2001.Premier service contains 3.7
+ million titles, from Ireland, UK, USA, Austrailia, & South Africa. BookWISE service contains 1.6 + million
titles from Ireland and the UK. Please contact info@lendac.ie for a trial or price details for BOOKDATA.
Now you have the unique chance to
fill your online "newspaper rack" with just the titles you want.Our
free trial database this month is Proquest Newspapers. Search and select for a comprehensive list
of 150 International Newspaper Titles. Some included in the collection: The Wall Street Journal New York
and Europe, Irish Times,
Waikato Times (Hamilton, New Zealand), China News (Taipei,
Taiwan), Times of London and Sunday Times (London, U.K.), and many
more. The free trial starts now and runs until the end of August!
Prices are available per newspaper
please call 01-677-6133 for pricing details. To access Proquest
Newspapers,
go to http://lrs.lendac.ie
Click "login here" button
in left side of the screen.
Username: news Password: papers
Click "launch now" button.
We look forward to your comments.
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