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AGENDA
CONTENT ON BOOKS@OVID Subject Areas Publishers
BOOKS@OVID ACCESS POINTS LINKING BROWSING SEARCHING
BOOKS@OVID INTEGRATION
LIVE SEARCHES
Q & A
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Content on Books@Ovid – Subject Areas
MAJOR SUBJECT AREAS: Clinical Medicine Behavioral and Social Sciences
Psychology Health Professions Life Sciences Nursing Pharmacology Science
Biology Technology
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Content on Books@Ovid - Publishers
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Part of Wolters Kluwer Health)
Around 200 Books
McGraw-Hill
OUP
Facts & Comparisons
NRC Research Press
WebMD
Pharmaceutical Press
BMA
American Society for Health System Pharmacists
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Books@Ovid Access Points
Books@Ovid can be used in three ways… Linking – Jumpstarts can be used to link into individual books from
Catalogues or home pages
Browsing – alphabetically by title, or by subject; opening a book and browsing the structure, which may include volumes, divisions, chapters, parts and pages
Searching – Once you have opened Books@Ovid, Natural language searching is the default, but any other field may be searched, either alone or in combination
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Browsing Books@Ovid
Browsing by Title – titles beginning with D for example…
Browsing by Subject – alphabetically by subject using preset categories, a book may fall into more than one category
Browse special books from Header
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Browsing Books@Ovid
Browsing Table of Contents – opening the structure of the book. Highlighting wraps around the selected chapter
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Book Searching
Searching Books@Ovid...
From the Browse Books Screen Natural Language Searching is the default To search a single book – open a book then search “Current
Book” (or all books) Or search all books directly using “Quick Search”
From the Main Search Screen Natural Language Searching is the default But fielded searching for Keyword, Author etc. are also
available Limit to Book(s) to restrict searching to a book or group of
books
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Back of the Book
Scroll using bar on the left to view:
Front of Book
Table of Contents
Back of Book for Appendices Resources Color Plates Back of Book Index
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Natural Language Searching
Ovid Natural Language uses four steps to help you search Ovid Books more thoroughly:
Natural Language analysis Synonym Expansion Passage Searching Relevance Ranking
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Natural Language Analysis & Synonym Expansion
Ovid filters to eliminate irrelevant terms and expands each concept using word variants taken from a proprietary medical lexicon.
Obtain best results by: Stating your question as concisely as possible Using nouns more than verbs Avoiding common spelling errors – Spell Check
When searching Books@Ovid, the software automatically expands your query:
Singular and plural forms of your search terms (truncation ) Strong synonyms from a lexicon Hyponyms (car is a hyponym of vehicle) Acronyms (like an abbreviation) Alternative spellings (British or US English)
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Passage Searching & Relevance Ranking
Search results involve passages of text which include your search terms (and/or their synonyms). The closer the terms are to one another, the more relevant the results are likely to be.
Star Scores indicate how relevant passages are to your question. ***** All search concepts are present and complete **** All concepts are present but some are incomplete *** One concept is missing ** Two concepts are missing * More than two concepts are missing
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Using the Icons – Keyword (or Title, Author, Book Name)
Using Field Tags – More Fields
Keyword or More Fields Searching
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Author Icon
m-auth – multiple authors… automatically truncated, includes Author
The person(s) credited with writing the book
(usually on the spine) Chapter Authors
Contributors to a chapter or part of a book Book Editors
The person(s) credited with editing the book
(usually in the front matter)
These are also separately searchable
Author Searching
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Title Searching
Title Icon
m-titl – multiple titles… automatically truncated, includes
Chapter Titles Heading Titles Divisions
The titles and headings include words which the author thought were important, so they can be useful to focus a search
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Books@Ovid INTEGRATION
Search books together with journals and databases
One-click links from book bibliographies to full text journals, bibliographic records, and external resources
Ovid tools such as document ordering, personal accounts, statistics and Ask a Librarian
Standard Ovid search interface
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New and Enhanced Features
QuickSearch from Browsing Page
More links back to Browse Books
Search terms highlighted (yellow/red) in text and passages (search terms and synonyms)
Location highlighted (green) in Table of Contents
Table of Contents highlighting wraps around open book section
Selecting within the Front of Book, TOC or Back of Book resets TOC highlighting and text frame (and crumbtrail beneath book title)
Frame control allows suppression of the Title, Search and TOC displays
Reference display shows citation and link(s)
Limit to Book – limits search result to one (or more) book(s)
Optional “Terms included in Search” link shows terms used by NL searching
Optional special books links in header
Print Selection icons to quickly display and print passages
Term Lookups show definitions when clicked
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SEARCHES
http://gateway.ovid.com/
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