June 12, 2015 ©2005 Ovid Technologies Jörn Hope Ovid

June 12, AGENDA  CONTENT ON  Subject Areas  Publishers  ACCESS POINTS  LINKING  BROWSING  SEARCHING  INTEGRATION  LIVE SEARCHES  Q & A

June 12, Content on – Subject Areas  MAJOR SUBJECT AREAS:  Clinical Medicine  Behavioral and Social Sciences  Psychology  Health Professions  Life Sciences  Nursing  Pharmacology  Science  Biology  Technology

June 12, Content on - 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

June 12, Access Points  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 Natural language searching is the default, but any other field may be searched, either alone or in combination

June 12, Browsing (Default Page)

June 12, Browsing  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

June 12, Browsing  Browsing Table of Contents – opening the structure of the book. Highlighting wraps around the selected chapter

June 12, Book Searching Searching  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

June 12, Searching Books – from Book Display

June 12, Searching Books – Book Display

June 12, Searching Books – from Main Search Page

June 12, Results

June 12, Search History

June 12, Results and Highlighted Passages

June 12, Results and Print Preview

June 12, 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

June 12, Back of the Book

June 12, Back of the Book

June 12, Back of the Book

June 12, Natural Language Searching

June 12, 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

June 12, 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 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)

June 12, 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

June 12,  Using the Icons – Keyword (or Title, Author, Book Name)  Using Field Tags – More Fields Keyword or More Fields Searching

June 12, Keyword Searching

June 12, Keyword Searching Results Display Alphabetically by Title

June 12,  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

June 12, Editors and Authors Listed at Beginning of Book

June 12, 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

June 12, Chapter Title Display

June 12, 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

June 12, Purchase Print Copy

June 12, Purchase Print Copy

June 12, 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

June 12, SEARCHES 

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