OvidSP
Flexible. Innovative. Precise.
Budapest 10th March 2009
Introducing Journals@Ovid at Semmelweis University
Introducing Journals@Ovid
• Accessing Journals@Ovid
– Opening the journals database directly
• Your Journals@Ovid (may be relabelled)
• Journals@Ovid Full-Text (may be relabelled)
– Linking from a database…
– 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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Access
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Linking into Journals@Ovid – Jumpstarts and OpenURL
• Jumpstarts…
– Allows you to link into Journals@Ovid from other
locations
• OpenURL / LinkSolver
– Allows you to use Journals@Ovid with 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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Complete Reference
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Linking within Ovid
• Within any Ovid database, when you subscribe
to an Ovid journal, links are automatically
inserted to your journals (eg from a database)
• Links will appear not just in citations, but
also in the references and bibliographies of
databases, journals and books (where
available)
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Searching within Journals@Ovid
• Searching for other fields within Journals…
– Searching “important words”
Author keywords, Outline headings and Title fields
– Searching Caption Text
The words used to describe graphical content – graphs, tables, charts,
pictures
– Searching Byline Text
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…
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browse by preset subject (journals may fall into several categories)
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Print/Email/Save – Results Manager
• Output reference information (for bibliography)
• Select Titles
• Select Fields
• Select Format
– Ovid to print/email,
– Direct Export for reference management, e.g. Reference
Manager, Endnote, RefWorks, Procite, etc.
• Select Action to Print/Email/Save (or export)
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Full Text Access: From Browsing
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Full Text Access: From Results
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For more information…
• http://www.ovid.com
• Under Products and Services / Content / Journals
information can be found for each individual
publication, including the Impact Factor
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Questions?
Contact you local Ovid Representative,
Eva Czegledi [email protected]
For training queries, please email the
Ovid Training Department [email protected]
Thank you!
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