New Full Text Content in Engineering, Life Sciences, General Reference, and Humanities coming in 2002

New York, Ovid Technologies announced today that over 700 Kluwer journals would be made available via their powerful search software in early 2002. The Kluwer Collection will provide direct bibliographic and PDF access to key titles in a broad range of subject areas, including engineering (electronic, physics and electrical), medicine, psychology and social sciences, agriculture, animal sciences and fisheries, biotechnology, chemistry and pharmaceuticals, geoscience, religion and philosophy and linguistics. Both Ovid and SilverPlatter databases will link to the journals, which can be purchased on an individual title basis or in subject-specific packages.
"We are delighted to further extend our full text coverage into areas such as engineering, the physical and life sciences, and social sciences and humanities," said Diane Koen, Vice-President of Sales & Marketing, Ovid Technologies. "Our customers will now benefit from our knowledge management solution no matter what subject area they are interested in."

"Adding these important journals to Ovid's collection creates an additional outlet for these titles next to our own Kluwer Online platform. This is in line with our strategy to continuously develop ways and opportunities to make our content and services available world wide in an efficient and timely manner to the researcher," said Peter Hendriks , Vice President - Commercial Services for Kluwer in Dordrecht.

Kluwer is one of the world's leading academic publishing houses, specializing in scientific, technology, medical, social science, business and law information in both electronic and print formats. Kluwer's imprints include Kluwer Law International, Kluwer/Plenum Publishers, Thomson Science/Chapman & Hall, and are available through university libraries and bookstores and via KluwerOnline.

Ovid Technologies, a Wolters-Kluwer International Health & Science company, is a leading provider of knowledge management solutions to the scientific, technical and medical markets. Headquartered in New York, Ovid develops sophisticated search software for institutions and bundles this technology with full text, bibliographic and summary content databases. Ovid software is used by thousands of prominent institutions worldwide, including public and private universities, library consortia, pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospitals and government agencies. For information, visit www.ovid.com.

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