energise your thinking Transforming content, tools, and services into a unique experience for you Medical Conference in Miskolc October 11, 2002

energise your thinking Agenda Ovid in review Ovid in Hungary in review Options Going Forward Ovid’s Information solution: Content Tools and Services Life demo Questions and Answers

energise your thinking Ovid Year in Review SilverPlatter acquired by Wolters-Kluwer in June 2001 Integrated immediately into Ovid Technologies –One company –Committed to meeting the information needs of our global customer base –All departments from both companies are integrated –All offices are integrated

energise your thinking Ovid Today  Ovid’s core mission: we deliver premier information solutions based on content, software tools and services to support research, education and patient care  Ovid and SilverPlatter: two well respected platforms for a single company, Ovid Technologies

energise your thinking Going Forward: Important Changes at Ovid Over time we will consolidate Ovid and SilverPlatter online platforms into a single tool. Why? –Customers across businesses rank the same things as important. –While each platform has unique strengths, there is an overlap in functionality. We’ll evolve to the best of both, with some new ideas too. –We can accommodate customer needs in a single tool.

energise your thinking Going Forward: Important Changes at Ovid This evolution will occur over time. What steps are involved in getting to a single platform? –SilverPlatter platform databases which are not currently available on the Ovid platform must be moved to Ovid –Unique SilverPlatter platform features must be incorporated into the Ovid platform –Compelling new functionality in Ovid, including better interface options, must be in place on the new Ovid platform

energise your thinking Ovid tomorrow One Ovid Brand Movement to a Single, Online Platform. –Development platform for the future is Online –Local platform will be supported as long as needed Re-dedication to Customer Feedback and Relationships

energise your thinking Ovid Tomorrow: From Your Perspective As long as there is significant customer demand, we will support SilverPlatter ERL –ERL 5.0 for Sun has been released. –ERL 5.0 for NT, Windows 2000 on CD was released in early July. –Online versions will have expanded browser support. –No changes to the price model that you are used to

energise your thinking Review of Ovid activities in Hungary energise your thinking

Ovid activities in Hungary SP platform well introduced since 1990 many SP database consortia via OTKA: Embase, IPAP, PsycINFO, BACD, CAB CD, FSTA, BTAB, Geobase, EconLit, Phil. Index, with ZOOR + BHAA coming soon Ovid databases, e-journals and e-books in two Medical libraries only

energise your thinking Current issues Good medical collection on SP + Ovid platforms Different platforms and access points Currency issues with CD-ROM’s Links from SP db to Ovid full text / Non Ovid Full Text but no cross search and no De-duplication across SP/ Ovid db Currently no direct linking from SP/ Ovid db to ScienceDirect

energise your thinking Our Ideas for the Future Mix of Online and local→ Online Mix of Ovid and SP→ Ovid New consortia for KAP and LWW journals via EISZ New consortia for EBMR New consortia for e-books

energise your thinking Ovid’s Medical Solution Content, Tools and Services Online energise your thinking

Ovid’s Medical Solution: Online Critical currency: permanently updated Faster access than hybrid solution Vastly increased content: books, journals Better tools: multiple linking options, OpenLinks, SFX links, full text, Auto Alerts Save time and money on local administration Robust online service: 3 Regional Data Centers

energise your thinking Ovid’s Medical Solution : Content Highly recognised (Oxford textbooks, BMJ, JAMA) From multiple sources, exclusive LWW Up to date, no embargoes With millions of links Saves time & money …. provides quality

energise your thinking Content: Medical Medline EBMR EMBASE BIOSIS CINAHL PsycINFO Current Contents IPAB SportDiscus AMED Derwent Drug File CancerLit Pharmaprojects Online BNI

energise your thinking Tools: Linking to full text resources Tools for accurate, precise and relevant results: mapping is only one! Multi-file de-duplication Enhanced Auto Alert, Search recovery Expert searches Citation manager Personal account Jumpstarts

energise your thinking Content: 1,500+ journals from 60+ publishers Highest quality medical titles Currency: no embargoes Collections & A la carte Free TOC/ Abstracts information for all non- subscribed journals Archival Policy

energise your thinking Tools: Millions of links: from databases, between articles, from external URLs One search interface, one entry point Fully searchable: captions, graphics, words Expert searches Full Text manager

energise your thinking Content: ACP Journal Club Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (CCTR)

energise your thinking Tools: Limit from Medline Deep Linking to Full Text Ask a Librarian Citation Manager Saved searches Search by Cochrane group

energise your thinking Content: Premier health sciences titles –The largest online medical book library in the world –Multiple publishers from U.S. and Europe Collections & A la carte Quick Reference (Manuals) Comprehensive Texts: OUP, LWW, Harrison’s Specialist Texts: De Vita, Kaplan, Danforth’s

energise your thinking Tools: Single license for all book publishing partners –Reduces implementation and training time –Simplifies licensing process Easy navigation Currency - updated as released Flexible use of text Support remote users as well as on campus

energise your thinking Services Authentication options – Personal Account Statistics: comprehensive now…ICOLC compliant by Dec 2002 Customer Support Training Access from anywhere: web or handheld

energise your thinking Personal Accounts Secure, personalised storage for saved searches and AutoAlerts For IP-validated (shared account) users For non-IP validated users –Project-specific searches –Chargeback accounts –Departmental storage

energise your thinking Comprehensive Integration

energise your thinking Thank YOU! For more information: and Or contact: Reiner Klimesch, Info Technology Supply Ltd. Geges