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Edited by Brandie Baumann
McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine Pricing to Increase
McGraw-Hill has announced that the pricing for AccessMedicine will increase on November 1, 2005. If you are interested in the AccessMedicine service, BCR encourages you to subscribe before October 15 to take advantage of current pricing. For more information on subscriptions and pricing and to sign up for a free trial, go to www.bcr.org/reference/Mcgraw/mcgrawfaq.html. For a review of the database, see www.bcr.org/publications/afl/2005/june/ accessmedicine.html. Questions? Contact BCR's Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org).

Wilson Introduces Book Review Digest Retrospective
Reflecting eight decades of H.W. Wilson's Book Review Digest, Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1905-1982 provides excerpts from and citations to book reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and nonfiction. Entries also provide bibliographic information and summaries of books reviewed. Available only on WilsonWeb, the database includes:

Coverage of 300,000 books, with subject areas including art, biography, business, education, history, humanities, literature, library and information science, music, science and technology and social sciences.
Citations for more than 1 million book reviews. Detailed indexing of more than 500 key English- language popular magazines, newspapers and academic journals as well as the library review media.
Library holdings indicator links to your OPAC to let users know if they'll find reviewed books on your shelves.
Simultaneous searching with Wilson's Book Review Digest Plus for more than a century of book summaries, review excerpts and citations to reviews.

Contact Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) at BCR for more information, including pricing and subscriptions.

Special Discounts to CQ Press Subscriptions
CQ Press is offering special discounts to BCR member libraries, in coordination with BCR's CQ Electronic Library subscription renewal period. (Renewal/order deadline is November 15.) Community college libraries and public libraries now have a special opportunity to order these American government databases, while academic libraries may purchase some CQ databases as a package at substantial savings.

Academic libraries may purchase CQ Voting & Elections, CQ Congress Collection and CQ Supreme Court Collection as a package at a savings of at least $2,499 less than BCR's regular discount prices.
Community colleges and public libraries can now subscribe to CQ Researcher (1991 to present) and CQ Weekly through a special opportunity to purchase perpetual rights (PEOR) to these two databases at a substantial discount. This pricing will continue only through the end of 2005 since PEOR ownership rights will likely be discontinued in favor of a new deep-back-file option.

The BCR discounted group subscription to CQ Electronic Library and CQ Government Directories runs December 1, 2005, through November 30, 2006. The renewal deadline is November 15. Make sure your library patrons receive continuous access by submitting the online renewal/order form (located at www.bcr.org/reference/cqpress/) to BCR by November 15. If you need additional information, contact Lisa Holmberg (lholmber@bcr.org) at BCR.

Ovid Technologies News
The American Mathematical Society's MathSci database, already available on SilverPlatter, is now live on the Ovid Web Gateway. Consisting of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications (CMP), MathSci includes signed reviews and bibliographic data from journals dating from 1940 to the present. Reviews of journals, conference proceedings and books of mathematical research are included. CMP is a subject index of data for recent and forthcoming publications. Full biblio- graphic information is included in the database.

Social Work Abstracts has been reloaded on both the Ovid and SilverPlatter platforms. The new version offers a number of new fields, including:

These changes should improve searching and browsing capabilities for customers. For more information concerning new and existing fields, please reference the database guides on Ovid's Web site (www.ovid.com).

As announced earlier in the year, Ovid has licensed four society nursing journals from Elsevier. These journals include Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Nurses in AIDS Care, Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing and Pain Management Nursing. This brings to 67 the number of nursing journals now available on Ovid and represents a unique collection of titles from multiple society and commercial publishers.

For more information on any of the Ovid or SilverPlatter database products, contact Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) at BCR.

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