OVID ADDS NEW FEATURES TO SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL SOFTWARE.Ovid Technologies Ovid Technologies (or just Ovid) is part of the Wolters Kluwer group of companies. It provides access to online bibliographic databases, journals and other products, chiefly in the area of health sciences. , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , has added several new features to its acclaimed ac·claim v. ac·claimed, ac·claim·ing, ac·claims v.tr. 1. To praise enthusiastically and often publicly; applaud. See Synonyms at praise. 2. search and retrieval software for accessing its wide collection of bibliographic bib·li·og·ra·phy n. pl. bib·li·og·ra·phies 1. A list of the works of a specific author or publisher. 2. a. and full-text databases. The improvements--which include support for local-online "Hybrid" configurations, and an intranet-integration feature called "Jumpstart"--are part of Ovid's new software Release 7.8. The new version is available now to Ovid Online customers, and has been shipped on CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). to customers with standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. and local network configurations. "A number of our local customers are already running Release 7.8 in production, and we've heard a lot of very positive feedback from them," said Dana Johnson, Ovid's vice president of Software Development. "In this release, we're introducing features that will give Ovid customers an unprecedented level of flexibility in terms of configuring access to Ovid and integrating it with other resources." Two of the new Ovid features in particular--Hybrid and Jumpstart--are unique in the bibliographic and full text database industry. OVID HYBRID SOLUTION ADDS REMOTE DATABASES TO LOCAL UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). INSTALLATIONS The Ovid Hybrid Solution--available in Release 7.8--is a new way to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. storage and access of Ovid databases. With Hybrid, a user can search both local and online Ovid databases in the same search session, using the same interface. An organization might choose, for instance, to store an Ovid bibliographic database For computer programs to manage an individual's bibliographic references, see Reference management software A bibliographic or library database is a database of bibliographic information. like Medline or PsycINFO on its local server, and link from the citations and abstracts to full text journal articles in the 350+ title Journals@Ovid database via Ovid Online. To the user, the search session is completely integrated, with seamless linking between local and online databases. For the organization, gigabytes of server space can be reallocated, and the system administrator saves the hours of updating and disk management time needed to offer full text on a local server. "Hybrid is a very exciting new option for local Ovid sites," said Johnson. "We got great feedback from the many beta sites An organization or group that is beta testing hardware and/or software. See beta test. who tested the feature, and we made a lot of enhancements as a direct result of those customers' experiences." JUMPSTART URLS STREAMLINE ACCESS AND INTEGRATE OVID WITH LOCAL INTRANETS Enhanced in Release 7.8, Jumpstart is a tool for integrating Ovid with local Web-based resources and services. Using Jumpstart, a system administrator can create links that "jump" a user from a page on the organization's intranet or Web site directly to any specific point within an Ovid search session. Jumpstart links can log in users automatically, execute saved searches, retrieve specific full text journal articles, and deliver a wide range of other benefits, with only a single mouse click by the user. "Many of our customers have been asking for ways to more tightly integrate Ovid resources into their local Web pages," said Johnson. "With Jumpstart, a librarian can easily create a link which quickly takes the user to the latest issue of a journal, the definitive review article on an important topic, or any other place in the Ovid system." Other highlights of Release 7.8 include interface enhancements to improve full text display and graphics, improved accuracy of keyword searches created in one database and re-run in a different database, the ability to customize the way bibliographic citations are displayed on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. , and many others. For a complete description of Release 7.8 features, go to http://www.ovid.com/dochome/release_notes.htm Ovid Technologies (http://www.ovid.com) is a leading provider of electronic information to the scientific, technical and medical markets. Headquartered in New York, Ovid develops sophisticated search software for institutions, and bundles this technology with full text and bibliographic databases. Ovid software is used by thousands of prominent institutions around the world, including private and public universities, library consortia, pharmaceutical firms, hospitals and governmental organizations. For more information, call Ovid at (800) 950-2035 in the U.S. or contact your nearest Ovid office or distributor. |
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