A Comprehensive, Integrated Nursing & Allied Health Portal for Practice, Education, Research, and AdministrationThe information needs of today’s nursing and allied health community are changing. At Ovid, we conducted extensive market research with students, practitioners, and administrators, as well as librarians and information managers into the way they work and the tools they need. We discovered that today’s nurses are looking for a new type of e-resource solution that offers:

• One destination for all their educational and professional information needs• One place for bibliographic and full-text content • Quick and easy access regardless of whether they’re an expert or beginning searcher • High-quality, current information that’s relevant to everyday work• Simple, intuitive tools that integrate search and discovery into everyday workflow

Nursing@Ovid is that solution.

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Provide streamlined access—via a single portal— to premium full-text and bibliographic content

Get quick answers to real-world questions on evidence-based treatment, diagnostic tests, continuing education, drug information, patient education, clinical decision support, and more

Find precision information quickly with Ovid’s unique and proprietary Nursing Subject Thesaurus

Use nursing-specific search filters to quickly pinpoint information

Organize and manage research material into a dedicated work area— My Workspace

Extend your research experience beyond Ovid using Ovid Universal Search™ and the Ovid Toolbar

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• Nursing@Ovid Interface – Simple, easy-to-use, and built with the architecture of OvidSP. You’ll find a variety of search modes, results management and other work productivity tools, and intuitive content alerting tools.

• My Workspace – Save, manage, and organize research documents and findings—including articles, images, search strategies, and more—into projects and folders.

• Ovid Universal Search™ – Ovid’s premium cross-platform solution, also available in OvidSP, allows users to search and retrieve relevant content from non-Ovid platforms, and integrate that content into search results.

• Ovid Toolbar – Save links to relevant search engine results or documents that you find when browsing online outside of Ovid.

• Ovid Nursing Subject Thesaurus – A proprietary controlled vocabulary that meets the specific needs of nursing and allied health professionals of all types and enhances retrieval from all resources searched within Nursing@Ovid.

• Ovid Nursing Database – This proprietary bibliographic data set indexes over 400 journals and periodicals from all over the world and is indexed against the Ovid Nursing Subject Thesaurus.

• Premium Full-Text Resources – Highly-cited nursing and allied health journals published by leading publishers, including Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW).

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Choose from 6 distinct modes depending on your level of search experience and how you like to search: Basic Search uses Natural Language Processing , enriched with an understanding of nursing-specific terminology; Advanced Search uses command-line syntax for maximum precision; and Multi-Field Search allows you to combine multiple search terms across multiple search fields in one step. Find Citation, Search Tools, and Search Fields are also available.

Content Alerting Tools

Automatically stay up-to-date on the latest research when it becomes available. Receive AutoAlerts via email or RSS feed whenever new content matching your search criteria becomes available. Electronic journal tables of contents (eTOCs) track changes in a journal’s table of contents. Download eTOCs automatically via RSS.

Work Productivity Tools

Use the collapsible and moveable Search History to identify the terms you conducted in your search. Limit searches by relevancy, subject, author, and other criteria. Manage search results quickly and easily; instantly view and sort results according to multiple criteria. You also have multiple options—such as Ovid, Chicago, and MLA—when you view, print, and export citations. Plus, easily add Annotations to a search result for future reference.

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Add information you find outside of the Ovid environment to projects in My Workspace.

Integrate access to all your nursing content—wherever it resides—through Nursing@Ovid and Ovid Universal Search.

• Ovid Toolbar –This downloadable feature is a great complement to Ovid Universal Search: save links to full text or other documents you discover using Ovid Universal Search into a project or project folder in My Projects. You can save links to search engine results or documents you find when browsing online outside of Ovid into a project too!

My Workspace – Conduct More of Your Research Work within Ovid Comprised of My Projects, My eTOCs, and My Saved Searches/Alerts—My Workspace combines search, discovery, and document and research management into a single online destination, dramatically increasing your work productivity.

My ProjectsMy Projects is the “core” of My Workspace, where users can:

• Group citations, articles, search strategies, images, eTOCs, and other PDF and HTML files retrieved through Nursing@Ovid or from your hard drive into distinct projects and folders

• Easily access projects from numerous pages on Nursing@Ovid

• Set up AutoAlerts so that results are saved to specific projects

• Use the Ovid Toolbar to save documents and files retrieved outside of Nursing@Ovid to a specific project or folder • Save Ovid Universal Search results to a specific project or folder

You can also simply upload your eTOCs and saved search strategies to into the My eTOCs and My Saved Searches/Alerts sections of My Workspace.

Extend Your Research Beyond Ovid

• Ovid Universal Search™ – This cross-platform tool allows you to simultaneously search subscribed content within and outside of Nursing@Ovid, and display results within the Nursing@Ovid interface. Plus, you can use Nursing@Ovid productivity tools to manage your Universal Search results.

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Ovid Nursing DatabaseNursing@Ovid features bibliographic data that’s central to the working needs of nursing and allied health professionals:

• Indexes over 400 journals and periodicals from across the world • Filters out loosely relevant records streamlining access to precise results

• Focuses on core specialties for the nurse in practice, education, research, and administration

Ovid Worldwide Headquarters333 7th Avenue New York, NY 10001 (646) 674-6300 (800) 343-0064 Email: sales@ovid.comAdditional sales offices are located in the following cities and countries:Alphen aan den Rijn, The NetherlandsBeijing, ChinaBerlin, GermanyBologna, ItalyHong KongKuala Lumpur, MalaysiaLondon, UK Madrid, SpainNew Delhi, IndiaNorwood, MA, USAParis, FranceSandy, UT, USASofia, BulgariaStockholm, SwedenSydney, AustraliaTokyo, JapanVilla Alemana, Chile Warsaw, PolandFor complete contact and location information, visit www.ovid.com/contact

Core Set of Journals from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)Sixteen premium journals, covering everything from oncology to critical care to administration, are available from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), one of the world’s most respected nursing, medical, and healthcare publishers. Key titles include: Cancer Nursing, Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), JONA: Journal of Nursing Administration, Journal of Nursing Care Quality, Nursing Research, and more.

Expand your content repository with more than 700 additional journals and books from LWW and other premium publishers, including Facts and Comparisons, Wiley-Blackwell, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Royal College of Nursing, Jones & Bartlett, Springer Science + Business Media, and other leading publishers.

Ovid Nursing Subject Thesaurus

Based on a comprehensive understanding of what nurses do, this unique controlled vocabulary, along with an associated lexicon, helps Nursing@Ovid correctly understand real-world nursing terminology and medical technical language to assure relevancy and precision.

• ‘Speaks nurse’ – lets the user enter both real-world nursing terminology and general medical technical language to obtain precise results

• Based on the MeSH standard

• Includes scope note definitions and standard diagnostic classifications

• Employs a ‘flat’, alphabetical structure that simplifies and speeds browsing

• Supports Natural Language Processing in Basic Search, fielded searching in Advanced Search, and nursing-specific filters

• Applies to searches performed on non-Ovid platforms via Ovid Universal Search

• Developed by a leading taxonomy and indexing specialist