Receive the weekly sampler of posts and "Resource of the Week".
Subscribe »

Enter your
email address:

My Account »


Bookmark and Share

Testimonial?
If you find ResourceShelf useful, please supply a testimonial »








Home > ResourceBlog > Article

« All ResourceBlog Articles

 

Bookmark and Share   Feed

Friday, 9th November 2007

Briefs: OvidSP: A Long-Promised Search Platform Arrives; Six more BioMed Central journals accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE

+ Mozilla's 2006 revenue: $66.8 million (via News.com)
Dive deeper into the numbers here.

+ OvidSP: A Long-Promised Search Platform Arrives
By Barbara Quint

Since the acquisition of SilverPlatter Information by Wolters Kluwer Health (www.wkhealth.com) in 2001 and the subsequent merging with Ovid Technologies (www.ovid.com), customers and industry observers have awaited a new search platform that would merge the best of both systems along with new features. OvidSP has now arrived. The new service will replace Ovid Web Gateway, scheduled for discontinuance in early February 2008, and then SilverPlatter WEBSPIRS sometime in 1Q 2009. Designed to serve the needs of end-user and librarian searchers, OvidSP supports a simplified basic search and tags to reach fielded searches, as well as bridges to Ovid Classic and SilverPlatter Classic command line syntaxes. First reactions to the new interface by clients have been positive with some reservations, but questions remain as to whether the new platform has enough appeal to counter market challenges by competitors.

+ Six more BioMed Central journals accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE

+ ProQuest Illuminates More Than Two Centuries of Key Global Events with the Launch of The Annual Register

Researchers can now access nearly 250 years of world history, through a new online version of The Annual Register. The Annual Register is a classic 240+ volume reference work that provides a detailed chronicle of world events from 1758 to the current day. From world politics to society weddings, from the latest scientific discoveries to the weather, from the year's best-selling novels to obituaries of authors and other public figures - The Annual Register provides detailed historical background and a wealth of new information for research.


Category:

Views: 634




blog comments powered by Disqus

« All ResourceBlog Articles

 

Read about the FreePint FamilyFreePint Family

A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »


FeedLatest Family Articles:


Click to view the article Quilting big data threads
Thursday, 24th May 2012

Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.


Click to view the article The fallacy of information overload
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012

A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?


Click to view the article Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure?
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012

Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.


Click to view the article Newsdesk: tracking millions of pieces of information a day
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012

What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?


Click to view the article Alacra Compliance adds managerial oversight
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012

Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).


All Family Articles »
Family Articles by Category »


Tell us what you're working on,
and we'll talk to you about how FreePint can help »


FreePint Family Testimonials

"Fabulous resource to learn of unique tools and insights. Very useful." Manager, Futures and Forecasting, Virginia, USA

More testimonials »






Subscribe

Subscribe to the ResourceShelf Newsletter and receive the weekly sampler of posts and Resource of the Week.

Find out more »

ResourceShelf sponsored by:

Article Categories

All Article Categories »

Archive

All Archives »