Building better access: Ovid Resources that work for you, Ovid Tools that you can work with. Dana...

Building better access: Ovid Resources that work for you,Ovid Tools that you can work with.

Dana Johnson &

Sean O’DohertyOvid Technologies

Access ‘98 - October 3, 1998

Building Better Access...

Basic Building Blocks of Ovid– Bibliographic and Fulltext Databases– Powerful Integration tools

New Developments in 1998 – Journals@Ovid– Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews Collection– New Integration Tools– Ovid Java Client

Basic Ovid Building Blocks

Over 90 Databases Available– added in 1998: ATLA Religion Index,

Agricola, CAB Abstracts, HAPI, INSPEC, MedCONF, NTIS, Wilson Library Lit.

Full Text Collections• Links between Bibliographic (Medline, PsycInfo,

CINAHL) and Full Text• Fully Searchable full text• Links between Full Text articles

Powerful Integration Tools

Integrate Holdings Information into Ovid records

• URL-based link to holdings• Automatic (Z39.50) Catalog Holdings

Order documents directly• Automatically order documents from within

Ovid search• ISI and CISTI predefined order sources• Supports customer-defined order sources

Powerful Integration Tools

AutoAlerts (AutoSDIs) integrate Ovid access into users’ workflow

• Users define search and select options for sorting and output

• Alerts run automatically and are emailed whenever databases are updated

New Ovid Resources - 1998

Journals@Ovid Full Text Database• Over 350 journals from 50+ publishers• Subscribe Journal by Journal• Free access to bibliographic info and TOCs for

all journals• Links from bibliographic to full text, full text to

bibliographic, and between full text articles • Customized limit to available full text from within

bibliographic databases• Browse and link from Table of Contents


Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews Collection

• Expert summary review of clinical studies (Best Evidence)

• Systematic reviews of clinical topics (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews)

• Links between the bibliographic and full text to the expert summary

• Medline limit to Evidence Based Reviews


Hybrid access allows you to choose local AND remote access

• Seamlessly combine local and online databases from one interface

• Full linking from local databases to online databases (e.g. Medline locally to Journals@Ovid online)

• Easily track usage of online and local databases in one statistics file

New Integration Tools - 1998

Links to Holdings– URL Links to OPAC holdings

• On-Demand Z39.50 Links

• Retrieve holdings information only when user clicks a button

• Reduces OPAC license usage

New Integration Tools - 1998

JumpStart– Integrate Ovid access with other web resources– Allows sites to…

• Integrate Ovid database searches into local web pages

• Provide quick and direct access to the latest issue of a particular journal

• Create a virtual reserve desk by linking directly to journal articles

• Set up “expert” searches that will retrieve the latest information with a click of the mouse

Building Better Access with Ovid Software and Databases

Resources:• Fully linked bibliographic and full text databases• New and integrated summary content

Integration Tools:• Document Ordering• AutoAlerts• Many options for links to holdings• Jumpstart

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