In response to a question from some Nursing faculty, I recently learned that we have a pretty tight cap on the number of concurrent users allowed in Journals@Ovid titles. Here's the word from Katherine:
"For any title through Journals@Ovid, the limit is one user per title -- three users per Journals@Ovid. That is, there can be three users in Journals@Ovid, but they all can't be looking at the same title. The title/article/session times out after 15 minutes or as soon as the article/title is released by the user."
So, if users are getting a "licenses exceeded" message trying to get into Ovid full text, this is probably why. This came up in the context of FindIt links for course reserves, where an entire class may be trying to get to the same article. We should also encourage students to click the logoff button after they're done looking at the article so that it's available for other students more quickly.
Just a FYI. I didn't know about this - maybe I'm the only one. :)
Thanks!
Liz