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Books@Ovid

Books@Ovid Search Tips and Features 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

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Books@Ovid

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  1. Books@Ovid Search Tips and Features ©2005 Ovid Technologies

  2. 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

  3. Browsing Books@Ovid (Default Page)

  4. 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

  5. Browsing Books@Ovid • Browsing Table of Contents – opening the structure of the book. Highlighting wraps around the selected chapter

  6. Browsing Books@Ovid

  7. Browsing the Front, TOC and 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

  8. Back of the Book

  9. Back of the Book

  10. Back of the Book

  11. 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

  12. Searching Books – from Book Display

  13. Searching Books – Book Display

  14. Searching Books – from Main Search Page

  15. Results

  16. Search History

  17. Results and Highlighted Passages

  18. Results and Print Preview

  19. Natural Language Searching

  20. 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

  21. 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)

  22. 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

  23. Keyword or More Fields Searching • Using the Icons – Keyword (or Title, Author, Book Name) • Using Field Tags – More Fields

  24. Keyword Searching

  25. Keyword SearchingResults Display Alphabetically by Title

  26. Adjacency Searches Provide Specific Results

  27. Author Searching • 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

  28. Author Searching

  29. Editors and Authors Listed at Beginning of Book

  30. 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

  31. Title Searching

  32. Chapter Title Display

  33. More Fields Searching

  34. 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

  35. Purchase Print Copy

  36. Purchase Print Copy

  37. Features • Attractive new interface • Frequently Updated • Enhanced browsing with dynamic table of contents • Browse books by subject • Browse back of book index, references, graphics etc • Links to Journal Full Text and Bibliographic Records from Reference Section • Natural language search and Ovid style searching • Indexes and limits for power searchers • Print preview, Email, Save • Generate URLs to topics within chapters (e.g. acute appendicitis treatments) with Email Jumpstarts • Special flags for updates • Page numbering • Special features, video, sound and other supplementary data files • Multifile searching with Journals, Ovid Full Text, and Bibliographic Databases

  38. 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

  39. Questions? Ovid’s Customer Service: support@ovid.com Training information: http://www.ovid.com ©2005 Ovid Technologies

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