October 2006 Archives

Serials Solutions recently launched a search enhancement to their federated search product—Serials Solutions Central Search Results Clustering. This new functionality integrates seamlessly with Central Search to introduce users to the new generation of federated search.

Results Clustering provides benefits to patrons and librarians, including:

• Reduces information overload
  
• Enables targeted research
  
• Requires no end-user training
  
• Deploys quickly and easily

Learn more about Central Search Results Clustering:

• View a short Demo of Results Clustering
  
• Attend a FREE on-line seminar and demonstration
  
• Send an email request for a live demo

EBSCO has integrated Pre-CINAHL content into their CINAHL Plus, CINAHL with Full Text, and CINAHL Plus with Full Text products. As a result of this integration, EBSCO will be removing Pre-CINAHL as a separate database. This means that, for EBSCO CINAHL subscribers, your users will no longer see a separate listing for Pre-CINAHL on your EBSCO menu of resources. All content will be available through your CINAHL database.

EBSCO will delay removing Pre-CINAHL as a separate database until the end of November 2006. However, EBSCO suggests that, if you are providing your users with a direct link to Pre-CINAHL, you remove Pre-CINAHL direct links now. Please contact EBSCO’s Technical Support staff if you would like assistance with removing a Pre-CINAHL link.

Subscribe to H.W. Wilson’s Literature Package (Play Index, Short Story Index, and Essay & General Literature Index) and receive a 20% discount off the list price of the package. Please contact MINITEX for pricing.

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Check the MINITEX site for information about requesting a trial and placing your order

Find out more about the new LexisNexis Academic interface, scheduled for beta release in January 2007, by visiting LexisNexis Academic Information Central. The new interface will support interoperability with open-URL link resolvers, bibliographic software programs, and federated search engines.

For more information:

• Register for a Webinar preview of the new interface (sessions are available November 14 and 30)
  
• Sign up for the LexisNexis Academic Listserv to get the latest news on the project

FAITS newest module, Healthcare IT, addresses the demands of regulatory compliance, dramatic changes brought about by Medicare drug coverage plans in the US, and new technologies in the healthcare industry. New reports are added each month on the following healthcare IT topics and more:

• Healthcare IT administration
  
• Standards and compliance
  
• Healthcare applications systems and services
  
• RFID
  
• Network communications

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Check the MINITEX site for information about requesting a trial and placing your order

MINITEX libraries can now receive discounted pricing on BioOne’s two databases:

• BioOne.1
  
• BioOne.2

BioOne's first database, BioOne.1, was introduced in 2001 with 43 titles from 35 scholarly societies and other nonprofit publishers. The existing set today includes 82 publications from 65 publishers.

BioOne.2, BioOne's new database, is scheduled to go live in January 2007. BioOne.2 has 29 confirmed titles from 18 publishers, with more anticipated for addition prior to the launch date. BioOne will be offering significantly discounted pricing on subscriptions to BioOne.2 for libraries ordering both collections.

Please contact MINITEX to request pricing. We ask that you submit your order by December 15 for a January 1, 2007, start date.

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Check out the new databases offered by Alexander Street Press:

New in Music

• The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
  
• Classical Music Reference Library
  
• American Song
  
• Classical Scores Library

New in Women's History

• Primary Sources of the Women’s Movement, 1960 to Present: The "Second Wave" and Beyond
  
• Primary Sources of the Women's Movement, 1960 to Present: Publications on the Status of Women

New in Drama And Film

• Theatre in Video
  
• North American Indian Drama
  
• American Film Scripts

New in Religion

• The Digital Karl Barth Library

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Check the MINITEX site for trial and ordering information

MINITEX is highlighting the following vendors / products during the Fall 2006 trial period:

• AccuNet / AP Multimedia Archive
  
• Alexander Street Press
  
• Blackwell Publishing Journal Collections
  
• CSA
  
• EBSCO
  
• Facts on File News Services
  
• Gale Products for the K-12 Market
  
• Grolier Online Products
  
• H.W. Wilson
  
• NewsBank
  
• Ovid
  
• ProQuest
  
• Turnitin Educational Suite

Contact Chris Kline if you'd like more information about these trials.