The OCLC President's Inclusion Council presents:
OCLC WorldMap: Visualizing Information about Collections and Libraries Worldwide
Thursday, January 31, 2008
OCLC,
2:00p.m.
Presented by: Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Senior ResearchScientist,Larry Olszewski, Director, OCLC Library Research
Admission is free. Contact Larry Olszewski at olszewsl@oclc.org for more information
The Ovid Web Gateway platform will be retired on February 4th; OVID databases will transition to OvidSP.
The OvidSP WebStats interface (https://ovidspstats.ovid.com) is now live. You can now generate statistical reports that track and monitor all of your institution’s usage on OvidSP since the platform went live on October 25, 2007. (Please note that Ovid Gateway usage stats will be collected until the switchover to OvidSP; access to historical Gateway usage stats at http://ovid-admin.ovid.com/stats2/ will be available after February 4th).
To access the OvidSP WebStats interface and begin viewing your reports, simply create a username and password (these must be different from your Gateway stats username and password) by completing and submitting an online request form, located at http://www.ovid.com/site/trial/webstats_osp/index.jsp.
OvidSP usage statistics reports are COUNTER-compliant! Click here for more information about the COUNTER organization and its standards. Ovid is a COUNTER member.
Be sure to visit the OvidSP Resource Center for training sessions, screenshots, Frequently Asked Questions, a User Guide, and more. If you have questions or feedback on the new platform, please contact us or Bob Morrisey or support@ovid.com.
On January 7, 2008, NewsBank will launch major enhancements to its news interface that will significantly improve search results. These enhancements, created with input from an advisory board of librarians, help users better navigate through millions of articles to obtain useful results more quickly and efficiently than ever. Visit www.newsbank.com/bettersearch for a preview based upon one of the many news resources.
Through a streamlined design and robust new search capabilities, users can easily:
Users receive finely targeted results through unique search navigators that:
Other enhancements include:
Combined with NewsBank's unrivaled local, national and international sources, these powerful new enhancements provide the most effective means of accessing authoritative and comprehensive newspaper coverage. In addition, NewsBank supports libraries using Federated Search engines, Link Resolvers and A to Z services, and provides MARC records for newspaper research.
Customized default settings will remain. For more information, contact NewsBank Customer Service by phone at 1-800-243-7694, or via email at customerservice@newsbank.com.H.W. Wilson has announced the debut of the new WilsonWeb reference database Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982. A detailed index of the content of more than 1,000 business periodicals back to the first World War, this is perhaps the most in-depth, authentic record of 20th century business and industry found in any single source. With versatile WilsonWeb searching of more than 2.5 million articles, the database helps researchers compile vivid portraits of historical business trends, events, people, and innovations, complete with insights that only contemporaneous journalism can offer.
From the history of telecommunications, to the events that led to the Great Depression; from world trade with the Soviet Union, to the shaping of the modern oil industry, this is a rich account of technological advances, business strategies, marketing triumphs and failures, corporate cultures, politics and regulation, iconic executives, and much more. Access to facts and statistics from a multitude of sources, opinion pieces from diverse observers and interests, forecasts from respected prognosticators, and other journalistic insights make this unique resource valuable to students of a wide range of industries as well as researchers in a wide range of disciplines. This is a practical tool for study in business, history, sociology, economics, politics, law, and other fields.
The database covers the full range of business specialties--accounting to advertising, computers to cosmetics, economics to entertainment, taxes to transportation. Updated subject headings make finding information easy, though historical subject headings are provided (and are searchable), for insight into the evolution of methods and technology. Personal and corporate names used as subject headings are standardized, to ensure retrieval of all records about an individual or a company.
Business Periodicals Index Retrospective searches seamlessly with Wilson Business Full Text, offering nearly a century of data combined. Free 30-day trials are available at www.hwwilson.com/trial.
View WilsonWeb CX Edition sample screens at www.hwwilson.com/Documentation/WilsonWeb/frameless.htm.
