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

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

• Dana Johnson
• Sean ODoherty
• Ovid Technologies
• Access 98 - October 3, 1998

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Building Better Access...

• Basic Building Blocks of Ovid
• Bibliographic and Fulltext Databases
• Powerful Integration tools
• New Developments in 1998
• Journals_at_Ovid
• Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews Collection
• New Integration Tools
• Ovid Java Client

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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

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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

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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

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New Ovid Resources - 1998

• Journals_at_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

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New Ovid Resources - 1998

• 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

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New Ovid Resources - 1998

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

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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

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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

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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