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Discovering and Accessing Life Science and Medicine Databases on Ovid Platform

This session provides information on accessing and searching Ovid databases, including tips on searching indexes and accessing the full text of papers. Learn how to set up alerts, export records to RefWorks, and utilize the Oxford University Single Sign-On.

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Discovering and Accessing Life Science and Medicine Databases on Ovid Platform

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  1. WISER: The Ovid databasesOvid is the platform for searching many of the life science and medicine databases. Juliet Ralph, Radcliffe Science Library juliet.ralph@ouls.ox.ac.uk February 2009

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

  3. Access • OxLIP+ (Oxford Libraries Information Platform) • http://oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.ac.uk • Search for database name • Remote access • Oxford University Single sign-on (SSO) http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/oxford/username/

  4. Why use Ovid databases? • To do an effective literature search in life sciences or medicine • Find out about journal articles published in your subject of interest • Be confident you’re searching the key journals in the discipline • These databases are well organised and up to date with plenty of handy search tools…

  5. Which databases are available? AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) BIOSIS (biology, biochemistry, experimental & pre-clinical medicine) CAB Abstracts (agriculture & forestry) Embase (the “European Medline”) GeoRef (geoscience) Global Health Medline (medicine) PsycINFO (psychology) Zoological Record (zoology)

  6. Coverage

  7. What are they searching? • Article title • Abstract • Descriptors / Subject Headings • Journal title • Authors • Affiliation • References • …..But not the full text

  8. Search tabs • 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 [ recommended ! ] • Keyword, author, title or journal • Multi-field search

  9. Advanced Ovid Search • Map Term to Subject Heading • Matches terms with the controlled vocabulary (standard terminology) of a database • e.g. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in Medline • Brings together articles on your subject even if they don’t have your keyword in the title • Weeds out articles which happen to contain your keyword but are not actually about your subject • This option is not available when searching multiple databases simultaneously

  10. Mapping Display – Migraine Disorders

  11. Tree – Migraine Disorders

  12. Scope Note – Migraine Disorders

  13. Subheading Display – Migraine Disorders

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

  15. Abstract

  16. Complete Reference

  17. Find it @ Oxford

  18. Full Text

  19. Find Citing Articles

  20. Find Similar

  21. Search History • Use this to combine searches • Combine them with AND or OR

  22. Limits • Too many results? Use the Limits • Limit types: • Language • Resource type (e.g. Review articles) • Publication year • Additional Limits • available once a search has been performed

  23. Basic Search tab • Worth a try if you’re new to searching • This uses “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, use Advanced Ovid Search

  24. Results Display for Basic Search • Records ranked in order of relevance • Sorting options (e.g by date) • Search Aid box • Lists terms used in search

  25. Search Aid box • Broaden/Narrow your search • Narrow Search • Subjects • Authors • Journals • Broaden Search • Add Related Terms

  26. Alerts – for keeping up-to-date • Automatic notification of new articles in your subject • Set up Personal Account • Also allows you to add notes to records • Save Search • Temporary/Permanent • AutoAlert (SDI) • Scheduling Options (choose frequency) • Email + RSS • Not available when searching more than one database

  27. Results Manager • Options • Results (select which ones you want to output) • Fields (select which fields to include) • Result Format • Sort Keys • Actions • Display • Print Preview • Email • Save (export to reference management package)

  28. Display

  29. Print Preview

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