1. Building better access: Ovid Resources that work for you, Ovid Tools that you can work with. Dana Johnson & Sean O’Doherty Ovid Technologies Access ‘98 - October 3, 1998

2. Building Better Access... n Basic Building Blocks of Ovid –Bibliographic and Fulltext Databases –Powerful Integration tools n New Developments in 1998 –Journals@Ovid –Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews Collection –New Integration Tools –Ovid Java Client

3. Basic Ovid Building Blocks n Over 90 Databases Available –added in 1998: ATLA Religion Index, Agricola, CAB Abstracts, HAPI, INSPEC, MedCONF, NTIS, Wilson Library Lit. n Full Text Collections Links between Bibliographic (Medline, PsycInfo, CINAHL) and Full Text Fully Searchable full text Links between Full Text articles

4. Powerful Integration Tools n Integrate Holdings Information into Ovid records URL-based link to holdings Automatic (Z39.50) Catalog Holdings n Order documents directly Automatically order documents from within Ovid search ISI and CISTI predefined order sources Supports customer-defined order sources

5. Powerful Integration Tools n AutoAlerts (AutoSDIs) integrate Ovid access into users’ workflow Users define search and select options for sorting and output Alerts run automatically and are emailed whenever databases are updated

6. New Ovid Resources - 1998 n Journals@Ovid Full Text Database Over 350 journals from 50+ publishers Subscribe Journal by Journal Free access to bibliographic info and TOCs for all journals Links from bibliographic to full text, full text to bibliographic, and between full text articles Customized limit to available full text from within bibliographic databases Browse and link from Table of Contents

7. New Ovid Resources - 1998 n Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews Collection Expert summary review of clinical studies (Best Evidence) Systematic reviews of clinical topics (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews) Links between the bibliographic and full text to the expert summary Medline limit to Evidence Based Reviews

8. New Ovid Resources - 1998 n Hybrid access allows you to choose local AND remote access Seamlessly combine local and online databases from one interface Full linking from local databases to online databases (e.g. Medline locally to Journals@Ovid online) Easily track usage of online and local databases in one statistics file

9. New Integration Tools - 1998 n Links to Holdings –URL Links to OPAC holdings On-Demand Z39.50 Links Retrieve holdings information only when user clicks a button Reduces OPAC license usage

10. New Integration Tools - 1998 n JumpStart –Integrate Ovid access with other web resources –Allows sites to… Integrate Ovid database searches into local web pages Provide quick and direct access to the latest issue of a particular journal Create a virtual reserve desk by linking directly to journal articles Set up “expert” searches that will retrieve the latest information with a click of the mouse

11. Building Better Access with Ovid Software and Databases n Resources: Fully linked bibliographic and full text databases New and integrated summary content n Integration Tools: Document Ordering AutoAlerts Many options for links to holdings Jumpstart