UAMS Library
Advisory Committee Meeting

The UAMS Library Advisory Committee met on April 3rd, 2001. Topics discussed include the Library's budget situation and potential cost-cutting measures, copyright issues and the implementation of electronic reserves, and recent improvements in the interlibrary loan/document delivery service. The minutes of the meeting are posted on the Library's website (http://www.library.uams.edu/aboutlib/advisory.htm).

The members of the 2000/2001-2001/2002 UAMS Library Advisory Committee are as follows:

The Library staff appreciates the work the Library Advisory Committee members do on behalf of the Library. Committee members provide valuable input to the staff about the Library's services, they facilitate communication with the groups served by the Library, and they act as advocates for the Library.

Ovid Tidbits

OVID TO LOAD 2001 DATA BY MID-APRIL

The National Library of Medicine has been in the midst of a major "reinvention initiative" which has resulted in there being a considerable delay in the loading of any NLM database records for 2001. Ovid received the 2001 global reload data the last week in March and has begun processing and testing of the databases. Ovid hopes to have the new data available by mid-April. In the meantime, users wishing to locate current research and reference articles in the biomedical disciplines are encouraged to use the two Current Contents databases, which are updated weekly.

AIDSLINE & BIOETHICSLINE CLOSED

The National Library of Medicine, the producer of the AIDSLINE and BIOETHICSLINE databases, has announced that it will no longer create and maintain separate files for these two databases. Instead, all records that would have been included in those files have been added to the MEDLINE file. The two discontinued files will remain on the Ovid list of databases, but after December, 2000, no new records will be added to them. When Ovid has completed the global 2001 reload, new limit features will allow users to focus searches specifically to citations that would be appropriate for either of the two closed databases.

DIRECT EXPORT ADDED BY OVID

For users who like to use one of the ISI ResearchSoft products (EndNote version 4, ProCite versions 5,4, or 3, or Reference Manager versions 9, 8, or 7), Ovid has created a new feature called Direct Export. It can be found in Citation Manager. Once Direct Export is chosen, the user should click on the Save button in the Action column. Doing so will automatically launch the ISI bibliographic software. There may be some instances when additional plugins or files will be required. For more information on using Direct Export with ISI ResearchSoft packages, go to http://www.isiresearchsoft.com.