June 12, 2015 ©2005 Ovid Technologies BOOKS@OVID Jörn Hope Ovid.

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©2005 Ovid Technologies

BOOKS@OVID

Jörn Hope Ovid

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AGENDA

CONTENT ON BOOKS@OVID Subject Areas Publishers

BOOKS@OVID ACCESS POINTS LINKING BROWSING SEARCHING

BOOKS@OVID INTEGRATION

LIVE SEARCHES

Q & A

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Content on Books@Ovid – Subject Areas

MAJOR SUBJECT AREAS: Clinical Medicine Behavioral and Social Sciences

Psychology Health Professions Life Sciences Nursing Pharmacology Science

Biology Technology

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Content on Books@Ovid - Publishers

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Part of Wolters Kluwer Health)

Around 200 Books

McGraw-Hill

OUP

Facts & Comparisons

NRC Research Press

WebMD

Pharmaceutical Press

BMA

American Society for Health System Pharmacists

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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

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Browsing Books@Ovid (Default Page)

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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

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Browsing Books@Ovid

Browsing Table of Contents – opening the structure of the book. Highlighting wraps around the selected chapter

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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

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Searching Books – from Book Display

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Searching Books – Book Display

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Searching Books – from Main Search Page

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Results

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Search History

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Results and Highlighted Passages

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Results and Print Preview

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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

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Back of the Book

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Back of the Book

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Back of the Book

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Natural Language Searching

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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

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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)

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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

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Using the Icons – Keyword (or Title, Author, Book Name)

Using Field Tags – More Fields

Keyword or More Fields Searching

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Keyword Searching

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Keyword SearchingResults Display Alphabetically by Title

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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

Author Searching

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Editors and Authors Listed at Beginning of Book

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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

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Chapter Title Display

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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

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Purchase Print Copy

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Purchase Print Copy

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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

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SEARCHES

http://gateway.ovid.com/

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Questions?

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