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Get Ready for the August 2nd OvidSP Migration with Web-Based Training Sessions

See below for a schedule of upcoming instructor-led online training sessions covering the OvidSP platform enhancements. Each course lasts approximately 60 minutes and will be conducted in English. Additional sessions—including those in other languages besides English—will be scheduled in the coming weeks.

Register for a session that’s convenient for you!

What’s New for OvidSP

• July 21st, 10:00am EDT
• July 28th, 11:00am EDT
• August 2nd, 4:00pm EDT
• August 4th, 9:30am EDT
• August 17th, 10:00am EDT

Introducing My Projects and My Workspace

• July 19th, 3:00pm EDT
• August 5th, 1:00am EDT
• August 5th, 3:30pm EDT
• August 19th, 1:00pm EDT
• August 29th, 7:00pm EDT
• August 30th, 12:00am, EDT

Unable to attend an instructor-led session? View a recorded session at your convenience.

Also note that you and your users can always practice with the new enhancements by clicking the Try it Now! button at the top of your OvidSP interface.

Self-running tutorials are also available. Choose from eight 3-5 minute online tutorials, too!

Check the Ovid Resource Center for all things related to the enhancements and the August 2nd migration: a handy migration “checklist”, a side-by-side screenshot comparison of the current platform and the new enhancements, Frequently Asked Questions, and more. Stay tuned for more information Questions? Contact support@ovid.com for more information.

Regards,
Wolters Kluwer Health - Ovid

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Dear EBSCO Customer,

We have some important news concerning changes to two default settings on the EBSCOhost user interface, scheduled to be made at the beginning of August:

1) The Result List sort will be defaulted to Relevance, from the current Date Sort. Customer feedback has been overwhelmingly in favor of this approach to results, which we outlined in a communication this past January. For more information on EBSCO’s relevancy ranking and its impact on search results, please see this FAQ: (http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=3971)

2) To accommodate the new Result List sort default, we will also be changing the default search option from phrase indexing (all terms entered in the Find field are searched as though enclosed by quotation marks), to W5, which means that all results that contain the terms entered in the Find field within five words of each other will be returned.

You may have changed your Result List default sort to Relevance back in January. If not, we will do this for you when we activate these changes. Or, if for any reason you do not want these two defaults to be applied to your profiles, you have the choice to opt out (not be included), by completing this simple form: (http://support.ebscohost.com/contact/relevancyranking.php)

Please act quickly, as we need to have your completed Opt Out form by July 31 in order to suppress these two popular changes in your account. Otherwise, you need do nothing and when the changes are activated, they will become part of your profiles. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Customer Satisfaction team through our support site at http://support.ebsco.com.

Sincerely,

Marcie Brown
Technical Communications Manager
EBSCO Publishing
10 Estes Street
Ipswich, MA 01938

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OvidSP databases for e-HLbc librarians

You are invited to join us online in Wimba at http://ubc.wimba.com/launcher.cgi?room=Ovid_ehlbc, on Thursday, July 8, 10:30 - 11:30 for a librarians’ round table about OvidSP health databases.

UBC’s Pharmacy Librarian, Teresa Lee, will start the round table, sharing her approach with students. We’ll explore Medline and the EBMR databases.

For instructions on joining a Wimba class, please see http://toby.library.ubc.ca/webpage/webpage.cfm?id=810.

*** Planning to come? An email to teresa.lee@ubc.ca would be much appreciated! ***

Everyone welcome.

Our summer issue can be viewed at http://ehlbcnews.bcahc.ca/

Highlights of this issue include:

• Notes from the Chair: We have new appointments on the Management Committee. Join us in welcoming them and read about our plans for the future.

• News and Events: e-HLbc now offers boutique licenses to e-CPS and e-Therapeutics+; Congratulations to Shannon Long, Winner of the 2010 Flower Award for Innovation; and a warm welcome to Myfanwy (Vaughn) Postgate who’s joined the e-HLbc Administrative Centre.

• Member Profile: Get to know e-HLbc’s newest member-Yukon College, a community college uniquely adapted to life in the North.

• Success story: What do BCIT, Dr Gregory House and Facebook have in common? Read about how BC Institute of Technology Librarians are using Facebook to promote their resources and connect with library users in their native environment.

• And so much more!

Your feedback is important to us! Contact us at info@ehlbc.ca with any comments, questions, or article submissions for future issues of e-Wire Magazine.

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Dear EBSCO Customer,

As part of our continued commitment to our medical researchers, we are pleased to provide this advance notification concerning medical searching updates scheduled to be introduced in several weeks, to demonstrate our responsiveness to your requests. You will receive additional communications as the release date nears.

Some of the outstanding features of the upcoming software release are:

Streamlined Headings Functionality

Everything that transpires from the moment a user enters a term, to when the desired results are returned, will be part of a more efficient process. Many subtle changes will be combined to enable more streamlined, intuitive navigations for both novice and experienced users.

• When a user creates a new query, all terms and subheadings will be clearly shown on the right portion of the screen in the new Search Box Builder tool. (Screen Shot Example)
• Users who enter a keyword and want to search the database will be prompted to select a subheading before using the Search Database button, which will turn green when ready. (Screen Shot Example)
• The Browse for button will be moved to the bottom of the screen to eliminate any confusion for those who instead wish to search the database straightaway, another benefit to new users.
• There will be a direct link to a tutorial in the horizontal blue bar across the page, right from within the database! (Screen Shot Example)

Search History Enhancements

Users will be able to edit Search History and Alerts. Changes made to previous searches or alerts will be reflected in subsequent searches, whenever they contribute to the new search.

Over the coming months, we will be responding to many more minor enhancement requests and as always, we welcome your feedback. Please visit EBSCO’s Support Site to view a collection of screen shots that demonstrate the look and feel of these upgrades, on this page. Note that there may be minor changes to some of the screens during the final software development phase.

Sincerely,

Marcie Brown, Technical Communications Manager
EBSCO Publishing
10 Estes Street
Ipswich, MA 01938