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Introducing OvidSP Resources

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OvidSP Access

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Accessing Databases@Ovid

– Linking into a database with a jumpstarthttp://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=main&D=medl&NEWS=n

Ovid Medline

– Opening one or more databases from the selection screen

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Introducing Databases@Ovid

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Main Search Page for Embase, Databases@Ovid (Basic Search)

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Basic SearchThe purpose of Basic Search is to provide a

reasonable number of highly relevant documents from the most recent part of the database (not an exhaustive search)

• Add related terms to include plurals and synonyms from the Ovid lexicon

• Offers most relevant ranked results first• Can be limited (to full Text for example)

Use Sorting option or year limit to select recent publications

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Main Search Page for PsycInfo, Databases@Ovid (Ovid Advanced)

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Mapping

• Entering an exact match for a term in the controlled vocabulary; the term will appear and be selected, but other similar subjects will be listed (often a prompt to use “explode”)

• Entering a synonym for a term, will direct you to the preferred term (use “explode” if it is a category or group of subjects)

• No match – Frequency based listing If term is neither a direct match nor listed as a "used for" term ("see reference“ or synonym) then: – Ovid looks at citation where terms occurs in title or abstract or other fields…– Algorithm counts the occurrence of subject headings tied to those citations. – The most frequently occurring subject headings are presented to the user as

choices. – In a frequency based list, one choice may be appropriate, or more than one

or a combination of choices, or you may need to choose to “search as a keyword”

• “Cannot map term to a subject heading” – check spelling, or “search as a keyword” if very new or rare, this is an unusual response for a large database

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Other Searching Modes

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Basic Search Example

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Advanced Ovid Search Example

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Complete Reference or Abstract

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Linking within Ovid

• Within any Ovid database, when you subscribe to an Ovid journal, links are automatically inserted to your journal full-text

• Links will appear not just in citations, but also in the references and bibliographies of databases, journals and books (where available) External Full Tex links can also be inserted

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Full Text Access

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Print/Email/Save – Results Manager

• Output reference information (for a bibliography)

• Select Titles• Select Fields• Select Format

– Ovid to print/email, – Direct Export for reference management software

• Select Action to Print/Email/Save (or export)

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Introducing Journals@Ovid

• Accessing Journals@Ovid– Linking to full-text from a database– Opening the journals database directly

• Your Journals@Ovid (may be relabelled)• Journals@Ovid Full-Text (may be relabelled)

– Browsing…

– Later we will be looking at how you may create links which take you into a journal, using Open URL syntax – a jumpstart

• But first, accessing Journals@Ovid...

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Linking into Journals@Ovid – Jumpstarts and OpenURL

• Jumpstarts…– Allows you to link into Journals@Ovid from

other locations

• OpenURL…– Allows you to use Journals@Ovid within other

vendor’s products, Journals@Ovid can be linked into other results displays or accessed in other ways (requires administrator settings)

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Database Selection

Browsing Access

Searching Access

Linking Access ▼

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Main Search Page in Journals@Ovid (Basic Search)

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Main Search Page in Journals@Ovid (Ovid Advanced)

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Other Searching Modes

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Basic Search Example

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Advanced Ovid Search Example

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Searching within Journals@Ovid

• Searching for other fields within Journals…– Searching “subject words”Author keywords, Outline headings and Title fields

– Searching Caption TextThe words used to describe graphical content – graphs, tables,

charts, pictures

– Searching Byline TextFor the institutional affiliation of the author(s)

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Browsing Journals@Ovid

• Browsing by Journal Name…– browse alphabetically and choose Issue List

• Browsing by Subject…– browse by preset subject (journals may fall into several

categories)

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Introducing Books@Ovid

• Accessing Books@Ovid– Searching within Books– Browsing the books

• Books@Ovid (only subscribed or purchased books)

• Jumpstarts and catalogue links

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Main Search Page in Books@Ovid

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Search Results in Books@Ovid

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Search Results in Books@Ovid 2

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Other Searching Modes

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Browsing Books

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Browsing Books 2

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Browsing Books 3

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For more information…

• http://www.ovid.com• http://resourcecenter.ovidsp.com