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Access and Search Science and Medicine Databases via OvidSP

This session covers accessing, searching, and exporting records from science and medicine databases available via OxLIP. Topics include basic search, natural language searching, search tools, limits, and more.

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Access and Search Science and Medicine Databases via OvidSP

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  1. WISER: OvidSP OvidSP is the new interface for searching many of the science and medicine databases available via OxLIP Catherine Dockerty catherine.dockerty@ouls.ox.ac.uk May 2008

  2. This session • Access • Searching and indexes • Accessing the full text of papers • Alerts • Exporting records to RefWorks

  3. Access • http://www.ox.ac.uk • “Libraries” then “e-resources” • OxLIP (Oxford Libraries Information Platform) • OvidSP • Remote access • Athens (until June 2008) • Single sign-on (SSO) http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/oxford/username/

  4. Searching • Basic Search • Natural language searching • Find Citation • Locating specific references • Search Tools • Indexes and thesauri • Search Fields • Restricting searches to specific fields • Advanced Ovid Search • Searching by keyword, author, title or journal

  5. Online help • Help • Context dependent • Display Knowledge Base • Database of queries received by Ovid’s support team • Database Field Guide • A guide to all the fields used by the database(s) you have selected

  6. Limits • Limit types: • Language • Resource type • Topic • Publication year • Additional Limits • Not available until a search has been performed

  7. Basic Search • Natural language searching • Enter search as a phrase or question • Relevance determined by proprietary search algorithm • For single search terms, use Advanced Ovid Search instead • Most relevant 500 records retrieved • For exhaustive searches of all instances of a term in a database, use Advanced Ovid Search instead

  8. Sample Basic Search • The topic under investigation is human deaths as a result of rabies transmitted by vampire bats • Search term: • rabies vampire bats human deaths

  9. Results Display • Records ranked in order of relevance by default • Sorting options • Number of records per page • How relevancy is calculated • Search Aid box • Lists terms used in search

  10. Record display • Results • Abstract • Complete reference • Full text • Find it @ Oxford • Find citing articles • Subsequent articles which have cited this one in their bibliography • Find similar • Perform a new search using search terms taken from this record

  11. Abstract

  12. Complete Reference

  13. Full Text

  14. Find it @ Oxford

  15. Find Citing Articles

  16. Find Similar

  17. Broaden/Narrow your search • Narrow Search • Subjects • Authors • Journals • Broaden Search • Add Related Terms

  18. Find Citation • Useful for clarifying citation details • Truncation for journal and author surname only • DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

  19. Search Tools • Map Term • Matches terms with the controlled vocabulary of a database • This option is not available when searching multiple databases • Tree • Displays subject heading within a hierarchical structure • Permuted Index • Displays single word within a hierarchical structure of similar terms, related terms, and used-for terms

  20. Search Tools (continued) • Scope Note • Displays information about the scope of subject heading • Explode • Performs search for subject heading, broader topic and all related topics • Subheading • associated terms that focus a search to a specific aspect of a subject heading

  21. Sample search: migraine

  22. Mapping Display – Migraine Disorders

  23. Tree – Migraine Disorders

  24. Permuted Index – Migraine Disorders

  25. Scope Note – Migraine Disorders

  26. Explode – Migraine Disorders

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