Aggregation, Archiving

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Aggregation, Archiving Access

• Terry Mac Manus
• Sales Director Asia Pacific

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Ovid Technologies is owned by the publisher -
Wolters Kluwer

• Our sister companies are
• Facts and Comparison
• ADIS International
• Lippincott, Williams Wilkins
• Our headquarters is in New York. We have offices
  in
• Sydney
• Hong Kong
• Beijing (soon)
• Tokyo

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Ovid Technologies is owned by the publisher -
Wolters Kluwer

• We have TWO key platforms
• Silverplatter
• in Asia mainly on intranet/network/CDROM
• strong customer presence in India
• Ovid
• very strong particularly in health sciences

• We have SEVERAL Access points
• local Intranet solutions for most databases (ERL
  5)
• online access
• local Regional Data Centres (Taiwan, UK, US.)

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Our customers tell us

• users want one interface to high-quality,
  integrated information resources from a range of
  full text publishers
• any information access should be integrated into
  users work environment
• it is not enough to just have the content

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We aim to meet customer needs/expectations

• by Energizing Your ThinkingTM
• by transforming content, tools and services
  into a unique experience for you

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Content
energise your thinking

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Full Text
150 DATABASES INSPEC, BIOSIS, PSYCINFO, MEDLINE,
CAB ABSTRACTS, Current Contents,
Linked to
Library Local Holdings
More than 2,000 Journals_at_Ovid
Relevant Internet Sites
Document Ordering Services
Over 8,000 journals via Publishers WEB Site
or CROSSREF
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ContentJournals_at_OVID

• At Ovid Technologies we call electronic journals
  Journals_at_OVID
• All journals are stored at Ovid. Not the
  publishers site
• These journals can be accessed
• By limiting databases to full text
• By using our database called Journals_at_OVID
• By entering the Journal Directly
• By going to your Library Catalogue

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ContentWhat journals do we deliver?

• We represent over 54 publishers covering medical
  and academic premier content
• British Medical Association
• Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins
• Blackwell Publishing
• Kluwer Academic

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ContentWhy do people purchase our journals?

• Customers do not need the big lunch
• Publisher Combined Collection
• BioSciences
• Science Collection
• PsycARTICLES
• Ovid Biomedical Collection
• Publisher Specific Collections
• LWW Custom 100
• Mc Graw Hill Collection
• Choose Individual Titles
• Soil
• Nature
• Science
• NEJM

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ContentBioScience Collection
()No. of citations in BIOSIS 
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ContentWhy do people purchase our journals?

• We Deliver Non embargoed titles with Full
  Archival Rights and stable publisher provision

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ContentWhy do people purchase our journals?

• We Deliver a 100 searchable database of full
  text
• every Word, every image is searchable
• We deliver Automatic access to backfiles
• Buy one title get the backfiles automatically
• Premier journals from 1993 forward
• Most journals from 1995/1996 forward
• We deliver a Full Table of Contents service
• Buy one journal receive Table of Contents for
  1500

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ContentWhy do people purchase our journals?

• We Deliver a Choice of Output
• SGML full text which enables linking from journal
  to journal
• PDF full text which enables the user to review
  the article exactly exactly as it was published
• We Deliver quality Linking, Linking, Linking
• Links to and from bibliographic databases and
  other full text through the references (others
  only talk about this, weve been doing it for 5
  years)
• Linking available for over 30 databases