OvidSP Enhancements Scheduled to Go Live March 31st 10am EDT

Dear Ovid Customer:

We are pleased to announce that the next release of OvidSP is scheduled to go live Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 10:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (14:00 GMT). Click here for a World Time Zone converter to check the time for your local area. If you or one of your users is in an OvidSP session at that time, your session will continue uninterrupted until you log out or your session times out.

Further to our previous email communications, the following platform enhancements will be available as part of this release:  

1. Customizable Search Fields
2. 2 New Limits: Limit to Star Ranking and Limit Date to Last
3. Quarterly AutoAlerts
4. Improved highlighting in search results
5. Links to PDFs of full-text articles—when available—in citations
6. Links to full text or the citation are now included when you export a citation to your citation manager or email to colleagues
7. Ovid Universal Search™ check box on the main search panel (Sign up for a free trial of this unique cross-platform search solution)
8. Ovid Universal Search tab names can be user specified (for Universal Search customers only)
9. Link text for the Knowledge Base in upper-right corner now reads Support & Training for additional clarification

If you’re also a Clin-eguide customer, you’ll be pleased to discover a new direct link into the Clin-eguide interface from OvidSP’s main search panel.

Updates to the OvidSP Resource Center
Sign up for our updated What’s New at OvidSP instructor-led training course at the OvidSP Resource Center. Stay tuned for updated online tutorials, too. To help you promote the new enhancements to your user base, we’ve also provided updated OvidSP Frequently Asked Questions, screen shots and more to support the new OvidSP enhancements. We’ll continue to update the Ovid Resource Center with new material—bookmark for you convenience!

You’ll notice that the OvidSP Resource Center is now part of a larger Ovid Resource Center, an easy-to-navigate centralized destination that also includes product and training news on Nursing@Ovid; tips on using OvidSP as well as other important information from our Customer Support and Training departments; and a new Librarian Toolkit section featuring customizable materials to help you promote Ovid resources to your users.

Contact support@ovid.com if you have any questions on the latest enhancements or if you wish to discuss further your plan for transitioning to OvidSP. Remember—the SilverPlatter platform is scheduled for retirement the end of June.

Regards,

Wolters Kluwer Health - Ovid