As I understand it, CINAHL is now owned or controlled by Ebsco which,  
I believe, will be the sole source in the very near future.  At my  
last job we had it through OVID but dropped it to go with Ebsco as it  
was only a matter of time anyway.

Tom


On 7 Feb 2007, at 21:12, Steiniger, Kara wrote:

> Hi,
> We've been told that CINAHL will be carried on OVID through Dec. 2008,
> and that they are working on a replacement product for release around
> that time.  We chose to go with OVID because our Reference Librarians
> were unhappy with parts of the EBSCO interface.  EBSCO said they're
> working on improvements.
> --Kara
>
>
>
> Kara Steiniger
> Manager, Resource Services
> RAND Library
> (310) 393-0411 ext. 6296
> (310) 451-6920 fax
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> Subject: OVID / EBSCO / CINAHL
>
> Does anyone have any recent info on what the future holds for CINAHL?
> I'm
> getting scattered bits on info, and my OVID rep is on vacation.   It
> sounds
> like OVID will not be licensing CINAHL in the future, but I have
> conflicting
> info on the "cutoff" date: 2007? 2008?   And do we REALLY have no
> recourse
> other than Ebsco?  I have had such awful experience with Ebsco
> (including
> patently unethical if not illegal dealings that I did not appreciate
> having
> to clean up after) that I never ever EVER want to deal with them  
> again.
> Their CINAHL plus Full Text offerings are lousy with selective  
> indexing,
> major journals for which full text is either not available or  
> embargoed,
> and
> the last time I looked the search functionality was just awful.   I do
> not
> want to subject my faithful clientele to having to change to this  
> crummy
> product.... they hate it when they've used it at school, etc. compared
> to
> OVID.
>
> Boycott, anyone?  Sigh.
>
> -- 
> Julie Stielstra, MLS
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> Central DuPage Hospital
> 25 N Winfield Rd
> Winfield, IL 60190
> phone 630-933-4536
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