About Ovid
Ovid Technologies is an
internationally recognized leader of electronic medical, scientific,
and academic research information solutions. By providing a
customizable suite of content, tools and services, Ovid supports the
diverse research needs of its 13 million users worldwide - academic,
medical, and corporate professionals and students seeking fast,
accurate answers to important questions that help to fuel
discoveries, explore topics, or research diagnoses.
We help
make research smarter, faster, and more effective for users by
providing powerful platforms (Ovid and SilverPlatter) to access
premier content, including 1,200 journals, over 160 books and more
than 300 databases, with robust software tools and specialized
services to browse, search, retrieve and respond to critical
information.
Founded in 1988, Ovid is used across the globe
by librarians, researchers, clinicians and students from leading
colleges and universities; medical schools; academic research
libraries and library consortia; hospitals and healthcare systems;
pharmaceutical and other corporate entities; HMOs; and clinical
practices. In North America alone, Ovid is used by 93% of medical
libraries, 97% of teaching hospitals, and 87% of U.S. hospitals with
more than 200 beds, as well as the top 30 pharmaceutical companies.
Ovid is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer Health
(WK Health), a leading provider of information for professionals and
students in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the
pharmaceutical industry. WK Health is a unit of Wolters Kluwer nv, a
multinational information services company with annual sales of more
than €3.9 billion and 20,000 employees.
When you use Ovid, you
have the world at your fingertips - hundreds of databases, more than
1500 journals, books from dozens of publishers, and most
importantly, the answer to one question - yours. Ovid will help you
customize three components for you, your organization, or your
institution:
- Content: Get access to thousands of the world's
most influential journals, texts, and databases.
Content
The world’s premier content is
available on Ovid! From highly-cited journals to world renowned
textbooks to premier bibliographic databases, you’re sure to find
the content resources you need to answer your important questions,
and advance your research.
Databases
From Medical and Life
Sciences, to Science and Technology, to Arts and Literature, Ovid
offers one of the largest and most impressive selection of
bibliographic databases in the world.
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Books
Electronic versions of highly
regarded, essential titles in medicine, nursing, and related
subjects all highly searchable, cover to cover!
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Journals
Journals@Ovid is one of the
largest single-database aggregations of 100% searchable scientific,
technical and medical full text journals in the world - available
exclusively through Ovid Online!
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Packages
Tailored to specific subject
areas, these premium mixes of Ovid content and tools offer you a
complete package of resources in one convenient purchase.
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Clinical Decision
Support Tools
Top clinical content paired with carefully
designed searching tools to enhance learning and decision making
skills for the practitioner, researcher, or student.
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Local Language
Information Resources
Ovid now offers hundreds of
Portuguese-language books and full-text journals from Brazilian
publishing giant Atheneu to physicians, clinicians, nurses, and
others in the medical community. Topics range from pediatrics and
gynecology to geriatrics and endocrinology.
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Health & Safety
Publishing
Croner.CCH, another Wolters Kluwer company,
offers a range of premium SilverPlatter database products in the
areas of Hazardous Chemicals Regulation, and Occupational Safety and
Health. All are regularly updated and can be accessed via the
Internet, across networks and on CD-ROM.
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- Tools: From searching and navigation to results,
full-text, and personalization - Ovid offers a full suite of
online and local state-of-the-art user tools.
Tools
For searching tools that are powerful,
yet easy to use, you can depend on Ovid. Ovid delivers the features
and customization options you need to get the results you want, and
answer your important questions. At Ovid, the most important tools
are the ones that suit your unique needs - that's why we offer our
customers a variety of options to choose from, delivered on these
distinct platforms:
Ovid Platform
Our
flagship solution brings millions of links to premium full text
journals and books, and world class bibliographic databases, right
to your desktop.
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SilverPlatter
Platform
Secure, reliable access to bibliographic
databases with links to full text.
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Ovid
LinkSolver™
Ovid LinkSolver is Ovid's powerful new
universal link resolver that provides end-users with significantly
advanced linking capabilities with which to access their library's
entire collection of web-based content, as well as a wealth of
Internet resources, regardless of where they reside. The next
generation of universal linking solutions is here with Ovid
LinkSolver!
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Ovid
SearchSolver™
To help simplify the world of information
resources, Ovid has developed a next generation federated search
solution, Ovid SearchSolver. This exciting new resource discovery
tool delivers advanced functionality providing users with the
ability to search and retrieve the best information for their needs,
in a simple and consistent manner.
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Clinical Decision
Support Tools
Top clinical content paired with carefully
designed searching tools to enhance learning and decision making
skills for the practitioner, researcher, or student.
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QUOSA Information
ManagerTM
A powerful downloadable
desktop tool, provided through an exclusive partnership with QUOSA,
that enables researchers in life sciences, medicine, and related
disciplines to better organize, manage, and analyze their full text
documents right on their desktop.
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- Services: Choose from a variety of training and
customization services.
We're Here To Help
You've experienced how
Ovid's outstanding content and powerful searching tools can meet the
demands of your research - now discover how Ovid's premium,
customizable services complete your research solution to help you
maximize your success!
Whether you're an individual
researcher, or a manager of information resources, Ovid's services
offer you the help, the ideas, and the personalization you need to
leverage your Ovid investment:
- Help - From quick searching tips, to
administrative management tools, to intensive skill building
resources, Ovid services help you get the most out of your Ovid
solution.
- Ideas - Innovative approaches to research are
our specialty; as we develop these new approaches, techniques, and
tools, we'll provide the forums to share them with you.
- Personalization - Customizable tools and
services that allow you to tailor your Ovid solution to your
unique needs, for information that's precise, current, and easy to
manage.
Our commitment to providing you with exceptional services is
ongoing. Our current service offerings include:
- Research Skill Building -
Sessions and reference tools that help you research on Ovid and
get the answers you need.
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- Personalized Updates - Opt-in tools you can
use to get updates on the topics and issues important to you, plus
opportunities to collaborate with Ovid on future developments.
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- Technical Support Services - Resources to
help you more effectively manage your Ovid Tools.
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- Proprietary Database Service - Let Ovid
integrate your organization's individual database resources into a
single, searchable, fully customized solution.
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- PayPerView - Purchase online articles, even
if your institution doesn't have a subscription to the journal.
This feature is available to customers searching in Ovid Web
Gateway and by users who want to link to Ovid full text from
external sites.
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- Microsoft Office 2003 - Through our
partnership with Microsoft, users of their 2003 suite of Office
products have direct access to their Ovid resources.
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Whether you need the answer to make a decision, a diagnosis, or a
discovery; your Ovid search results will help you decide what to do
next.