DIMDI Research News

At DIMDI, you can now receive the German 2010 version of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). You can use this thesaurus for example to catalogue and index media collections. Or you can integrate it into your own Software applications. more »

Beware of phishing: Precautions with DIMDI

Feb 24, 2010

DIMDI warns you preventatively of phishing attacks in online services, e.g. ordering and purchasing transactions on the Internet: Increasingly, fraudsters attempt to swindle confidential data (access data or credit card information) from the users of such services. Meanwhile, victims are specifically targeted and mislead using deceptively genuine and serious-looking emails in order to trick them into divulging their private information. DIMDI supports your precautionary measures. more »

EMBASE: Now with documents starting from 1947

Feb 23, 2010

As of now, we are offering the EMBASE literature database with its ClassicFiles. These include more than 1.8 million documents from 1947 to 1973. Until now, you had been researching documents starting from 1974. more »

Cochrane Library - CDSR Now also available as standing order

Feb 23, 2010

As of now, as Premium customer, you can also set up standing orders in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR, Cochrane Reviews). The database contains full text versions of Cochrane reviews concerning therapeutic problems and protocols on developing systematic reviews. Moreover, new data fields provide additional information. more »

Database search: 2010 few price changes

Dec 31, 2009

With us you search next year in almost all databases at the old prices. A few producers have increased their licence fees. However due to the favourable dollar exchange rate this affects the prices in only a few of our databases. more »

Databases: MEDLINE Reload 2010

Dec 28, 2009

With immediate effect, the MEDLINE database is available to you in revised form with the new version of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH 2010). DIMDI is also resuming the daily updates with indexed documents (status=MEDLINE). more »

Springer/Kluwer: No update in December

Nov 23, 2009

In December 2009 the Kluwer and Springer Publisher databases will not be updated at DIMDI. Due to changed formats the technical effort necessary would be very high. From January 2010 DIMDI no longer offers these databases for research.
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New fields in the PsycINFO database

Oct 6, 2009

In PsycINFO, you will now find even more details concerning psychological bibliography. A large number of new and supplemented fields inform you in further detail about the origin of the article, the progress of the publication process and corresponding copyrights. more »

NHS databases: Document numbers expanded, fields changed

Mar 26, 2009

As of now, the document number will consist of up to 11 characters in the three databases of the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS-CRD-DARE, NHS-CRD-HTA (INAHTA), NHS Economic Evaluation Database). All previous 6-character entries have been changed retrospectively. more »

Databases: Field changes for DAHTA, ISTPB, PsycINFO and SciSearch

Mar 26, 2009

You will find new and changed fields in the following databases: DAHTA, ISTPB + ISTP/ISSHP, SciSearch and Social SciSearch, and soon in PsycINFO. Your standing orders may have to be changed for ISTPB: the contents of the SA field concerning details on support agencies have changed. more »

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