Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Ovid, LWW, AHA Journals Saga Continues

As I mentioned earlier this week, another librarian expressed her frustration with LWW, Ovid, and the AHA Journals to the Medlib list.
Well, the librarian was able to get some answers from her Ovid rep. and from other librarians. Here is her summary on Medlib-l.

What doesn't make sense is that Ovid is owned by Lippincott who publishes the AHA Journals, so why is there such a major problem with getting e-pages through Ovid?! Frustrating and ridiculous.

****Update****
(From the librarian on Medlib-l)
I just received a call from Ovid Technical Support. E-pages ARE listed in
the contents pages for each month. However, they appear in the order
loaded, which means that they are out of numberic sequence. For example, in
May there were two articles on e-pages, starting with e48. However, they
are listed in the contents after the article that ends on page 1088 (last
article in the issue starts on page 1110). E-pages appear to be
continuously numbered from month to month. I suggested to Ovid technical
support that they find a more intuitive way to list pages. Hopefully they
will come up with a better way of doing it.
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May I also suggest that somebody within Ovid, LWW, and AHA educated their reps and help desk employees as to what exactly is available to libraries from what interface. Again it is ridiculous that this many librarians are having problems with something that shouldn't be an issue.

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