Ovid Scientific Information Management Conference Zagreb Think Fast. Search Faster.

Search the Way You Want to Search OvidSP Universal Search My Projects

In Basic Search, enter free text search terms using NLP across all databases selected.

4 New Multi-Field Search mode Easily add more fields to search

Search results are ranked and scored by relevancy to your search.

In Search Aid, narrow your search by subject, author, or journal, or add related terms to broaden your search.

7 Now you can choose your own default limits for the Main Search page

8 OvidSP New Development - Areas of Focus  Ovid Universal Search™ – “Search Without Boundaries”  My Projects Workspace for the user  Flexible user interface Users can work the way they want

Features and Benefits Ovid Universal Search

10 What the data told us Users search redundantly across multiple platforms for their content, and export and assemble that content Some proprietary content is unavailable on OvidSP Librarian administrators have to train their users on multiple platforms and their end-users resist it

11 What is Ovid Universal Search? Universal Search is a multi-platform search engine, integrated into OvidSP Customers can “connect” to external platforms, free internet search engines, and their own OPACs Connections available for 640 sources and 5,400 titles (information bases – databases, collections of journals, etc.)

12 Universal Search Terminology  Ovid Universal Search –OvidSP’s integrated, multi-platform search capability  Connector –A software module needed to connect the OvidSP search function to other content sources  Source –A Publisher, Information Provider, or public search engine, such as PubMed & ……

13 Ovid Universal Search

14 Ovid Universal Search Results

15 Ovid Universal Search: PubMed results

16 Ovid Universal Search: External Full Text

17 Ovid Universal Search: Adding Results to Projects

18 Key Points  Universal Search allows users to search all their content simultaneously from one familiar, convenient platform – OvidSP  Customers can have confidence in the proven search precision of OvidSP, now available outside of Ovid  A single platform means less training, less hassle, and a more streamlined workflow

Features and Benefits My Projects

20 What the data told us  Most researchers – Ovid users or not – manually store search results into folders (print or digital) for further use and sharing  Users search across multiple platforms for their content, and export and organize their results  Convenience is key - users want a single place to group and organize the derived information from their searches

21 My Projects

22 My Projects: Viewing Elements

23 My Projects: Create Project

24 My Projects: Upload

25 Key Points  My Projects is a workspace which allows the user to logically group their research materials into projects  Conveniently save both Ovid and non-Ovid results in one area  Looking ahead towards robust collaboration with colleagues

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