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Building better access: Ovid Resources that work for you, Ovid Tools that you can work with. Dana Johnson & Sean O’Doherty Ovid Technologies Access ‘98 - October 3, 1998. Building Better Access. Basic Building Blocks of Ovid Bibliographic and Fulltext Databases Powerful Integration tools
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Building better access:Ovid Resources that work for you, Ovid Tools that you can work with. Dana Johnson & Sean O’Doherty Ovid Technologies Access ‘98 - October 3, 1998
Building Better Access... • Basic Building Blocks of Ovid • Bibliographic and Fulltext Databases • Powerful Integration tools • New Developments in 1998 • Journals@Ovid • Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews Collection • New Integration Tools • Ovid Java Client
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
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
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
New Ovid Resources - 1998 • Journals@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
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
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@Ovid online) • Easily track usage of online and local databases in one statistics file
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
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
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