The next release of OvidSP is scheduled to go live Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 10:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (14:00 GMT). The following platform enhancements will be available as part of this release:

• Customizable Search Fields
• 2 New Limits: Limit to Star Ranking and Limit Date to Last
• Quarterly AutoAlerts
• Improved highlighting in search results
• Links to PDFs of full-text articles—when available—in citations
• Links to full text or the citation are now included when you export a citation to your citation manager or email to colleagues
• Ovid Universal Search™ check box on the main search panel (Sign up for a free trial of this unique cross-platform search solution)
• Ovid Universal Search tab names can be user specified (for Universal Search customers only)
• Link text for the Knowledge Base in upper-right corner now reads Support & Training for additional clarification

I have had a few folks calling in frustration over accessibility to some of our Ovid journals (from either PsycInfo, LWW Total Access Collection, or Journals at OVID within Medline).  The root of the issue is OVID’s accessibility policy, which is:

1 (one) simultaneous user for full text of each licensed journal on the OVID platform.

Please advise users who encounter a “Users Exceeded” error upon attempting access to fulltext from OVID databases to try accessing the article again at a later time.  We have no way of freeing-up the journal for access from the libraries.