Ebsco Promoting DynaMed
I received and email yesterday or today (hard to tell since my work email is on the fritz) from Ebsco promoting DynaMed.
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Dear EBSCO Customers:
We are excited to share the following news, and hope it is of value to you. Are you currently using Up-to-Date or another point-of-care electronic resource?
Have you found these resources to be cost-prohibitive? Are you interested in evaluating other options? If so, you'll be happy to know that EBSCO Publishing now provides DynaMed, the highest quality, evidence-based, point-of-care resource that is not only cost-effective, but includes unlimited remote access for no additional fee!
A year ago, EBSCO acquired DynaMed, and since that time has successfully implemented a new user interface for enhanced access to this increasingly popular resource. With clinically-organized summaries for nearly 2,000 topics, DynaMed is the only evidence-based point-of-care reference shown to answer most clinical questions during practice (Annals of Family Medicine, November/December 2005).
EBSCO invites you to view the following brief flash overview of DynaMed, and request more information - including a free trial.
http://www.epnet.com/flashViewer.php?marketID=2&topicID=192
If you have questions, or would like an EBSCO representative to contact you, please send an email to us at: information@epnet.com.
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If you are interested in a review of DynaMed check out:
DynaMed
Reviewed by Hope Barton, MSLS, Assistant Director for Information Resources
J Med Libr Assoc. 2005 July; 93(3): 412-414.
As UpToDate gets more and more expensive and still keeps its draconian off campus access policy, more doctors and librarians are looking at other products. This year I have had more people ask me about access to eMedicine and FirstConsult than I have had previously. Usually I mention that we have UpToDate and currently we can not afford both it and those other products they are inquiring about. Perhaps I should start to ask them why they are inquiring about them in the first place. Is it because they just recently heard about them, they came from an institution with them, or have they found UpToDate lacking in areas where the other products don't? I am curious. Maybe there are those of you out there (doctors and librarians) familiar with UpToDate and its competitors who can enlighten me. Is UpToDate still "the only product", or is it losing some of its luster while its competitors are closing the gap?
2 Comments:
I'm so happy that there is someone trying to compete with Up To Date. And I like the Ebsco product now that the interface has been redesigned - the old was one horrible.
As for Up To Date I think they are trying really hard to price themselves out of the market. Docs love it but many places are beginning to balk at having to cut those checks.
I'm not sure where our docs hear of it - maybe some sort of subliminal ad campaign at CME events??
Another alternative to UpToDate is FIRSTConsult, which you can try for free:
www.firstconsult.com
Evidence-based and concise for the point of care; my favourite POC tool!
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