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Weekly News Digest
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May 4, 2009 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Ovid Expands Medical Ebook Offerings
Ovid Technologies, Inc. (www.ovid.com), a part of Wolters Kluwer Health (www.wkhealth.com) and a provider of customizable electronic research information for the medical, healthcare, and academic markets, announced that 60 ebooks from Clinical Publishing (www.clinicalpublishing.co.uk), an independent medical publisher based in the U.K, are scheduled to be available on OvidSP in 2009. Many of the titles are already for sale and accessible via Books@Ovid, OvidSP's ebook platform. All titles will be available to Ovid's global customer base as an annual subscription or for one-time purchase. With the addition of Clinical Publishing, Ovid's portfolio of ebook publishing partners now totals 10. Additional partners include Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Ovid's sister company within Wolters Kluwer Health), Oxford University Press, Springer Science + Business Media, McGraw-Hill, and Jones & Bartlett. Clinical Publishing is an independent medical publisher with offices in Oxford, U.K.; Barcelona, Spain; and New York. An imprint of Atlas Medical Publishing, Ltd, Clinical Publishing specializes in medical color atlases and medical reference texts for doctors, specialists, and trainees worldwide. First launched in 2004, Books@Ovid offers a streamlined, efficient search experience to a wide range of novice and advanced user types. Users can search ebooks simultaneously with ejournals and bibliographic databases and can link directly to any other content resource referenced in a book. Features include flexible search, browse, and results-management features; inline abstracts; a variety of search limits; and downloadable MARC records to help librarians manage their online catalogs. Source: Ovid Technologies, Inc.
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