Ovid
is the search engine of choice for UofL subscription databases in
health sciences, including MEDLINE, Evidenced Based Medicine, CINAHL
and PsycINFO. Ovid is licensed to the UofL Libraries for direct,
on-campus access, and remote access (from home or other computers)
via the Connect from Home link
on the Kornhauser home page. If you subscribe to the UofL.net Remote
Plus fee-based Internet service you automatically have access from
your home computer.
To
use Ovid, simply click on any Ovid database link. You do NOT need
an Ovid userid or password to use nearly all the features. If you
are time
UofL's
license agreement restricts the use of Ovid to authorized users
including UofL faculty, staff, and students.
 Gives you more detailed information about the content
and structure of a particular database.
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Multifile
searching allows you to search multiple databases as if they
were one database, for example, Ageline and Medline. Note
that each database may use its own terminology, and that search
terms in one database may not be valid in another database.
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Connects
you directly to the bibliographic records in the UofL Libraries
online catalog (Minerva) for journals
held in the UofL Libraries, including links to electronic
journals, when available. Items not held by the UofL Libraries
may be requested via ILLiad, the online Interlibrary
Loan system. Note that some electronic journals are be
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Provides
a direct link to the full text of articles available via Journals@Ovid.
Before printing an article, be sure to select Print Preview
in the Output table, otherwise any graphics will print
only in thumbnail size. When Ovid Full Text is not indicated,
use the button to search for full text availability
from other sources. |
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Personal
Accounts will allow you to save your searches, temporarily
or permanently, and create AutoAlerts (see
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Ovid
Personal Accounts:
Ovid
Personal Accounts are available to all Ovid users. The Personal
Account eplaces the Ovid Individual Accounts, which had to be
manually maintain accounts and was limited to individuals with
heavy research requirements. Individual Accounts will no longer
be issued, but existing accounts will be retained.
The
new Personal Account allows all Ovid users to create and
maintain Saved Searches and AutoAlerts in a secure and private
workspace.You will be able to create your own Account Name and
Password during your first Personal Account session. Thereafter,
personal account information can be modified from within Ovid
at any time.
To
create an account click on the 
button on the Ovid main search page, then choose Create
a new Personal Account.
The Ovid Personal Account will give every Ovid user the following
features:
- Save your
searches permanently or temporarily (7 days),
- Create
AutoAlerts - These are saved searches that are run whenever
the database is updated (generally, weekly), with the results
e-mailed to you.
Want to know
more? Read the following tip sheets:
One feature
of the old Individual Account system not available at this time
is the recovery from the 15 minute inactivity time-out. This feature
is under development by Ovid and will hopefully be available in
the near future. Because of the automatic inactivity time-out,
you are urged to save your searches using your Personal Account
to enable you to recover your work should you be timed out.
Ovid
Tools: Click an icon for Help on these tools        
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Allows you to choose another database, or multiple
databases |
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Always log off when done. We are limited to 25 concurrent
users for access to Ovid, and fewer for specific databases
and electronic Ovid full -text journals. |
Ovid
Databases: Complete descriptions
of Ovid databases are available on the Ovid Main Menu by clicking
- MEDLINE
Encompasses
journal article information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental
Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources
of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical
sciences, humanities and information science as they relate
to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population
biology, and reproductive biology. OldMedline entries
(1958 to 1966) are available via the
NLM Gateway.
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MEDLINE
and PreMedline
This multifile database allows you to search MEDLINE®
and PreMedline simultaneously. With this database, you can
search records from MEDLINE® data, as well as records
before they have been indexed with MeSH headings. Mapping
to subject headings is not available.
- CINAHL
Indexing and abstracts from articles in nursing and allied health
journals.
- PsycINFO
Indexing and abstracts from journal articles, proceedings, books
and other documents concerning psychology and mental health.
Covers 1887 to present.
- Evidence-Based
Medicine Reviews Search the full text of components
of Ovid's EBM Reviews Collection (ACP Journal Club, Cochrane
Controlled Trials Register, Cochrane Database of Systematic
Reviews, and DARE--Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness)
for articles that review, compare, and synthesize the results
of clinical trials done in most areas of clinical medicine.
Or, use the limits feature
in MEDLINE to search items addressed in these databases.
Link from a citation contained in a review to its source (and
full text if available), or from the source to a review.
- HAPI
(Health and Psychosocial Instruments)
Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to
information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires,
interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/
manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios,
tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational
behavior, and library and information science. HAPI provides
a means of locating a variety of instruments, helps to reduce
inefficiency and cost, and eliminates duplication and "reinvention
of the wheel."
- HealthSTAR
Contains
citations to the published literature on health services, technology,
administration, and research. It focuses on both the clinical
and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery.
- Your
Journals@Ovid
YourJournals@Ovid is a subset of the larger Journals@Ovid database
that is limited to only the journals to which the UofL Libraries
subscribe. Use when you want to see only the citations to which
UofL has access. It provides all of the basic functionality
of Journals@Ovid, including 100% searchability, seamless integration
with databases, and the ablity to browse by journal and by subject.
- Journals@Ovid
Contains full text from over 100 health sciences journals for
those shown as
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Other journals as well as tables of contents, complete references,
and links to UofL . These articles are the source of
the full text links from citations in MEDLINE, CINAHL and PsycINFO.
Text of these journals is fully searchable, and browseable.
Links to and among references are available. Use Journals@Ovid
only when you know the title of the article. Subject searches
are very difficult and not advisable for this database.
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The
Lancet Archive A collection of The Lancet from
1993 to December 1999, a fully searchable full text collection
including many of the capabilities of the Ovid Full Text Collections.
- AARP
Ageline
Provides bibliographic references and original abstracts for
materials related to aging and middle age, from an interdisciplinary
perspective of psychology, economics, sociology, gerontology,
public policy, business, health and health care services, and
consumer issues.
- CancerLit
Indexing and abstracts from journal articles, proceedings, and
other documents concerning cancer.
Ovid
Tip #2 - Using
the Frequency Operator A Tip of the Month from Jeffline
at Thomas Jefferson University.
More
Ovid Tips IU
Ruth Lilly Medical Library Tips and Tricks
Try
the Duke
Ovid Online Tutorial
OR,
take the Kornhauser Library Ovid
Tips & Trip class.
Ovid
Help:
Ovid
Search Help:
Click on  found in the upper right
on most pages in Ovid.
Personal
Assistance:
From within the Ovid Search Page click "Ask
a Librarian" to submit questions directly to Kornhauser
reference librarians, or go to our Help!
web page.
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