1. OvidSP: the new platform Bakheet Beshtawy Systems Librarian Rashid Medical Library

2. OvidSP Ovid Technologies: Provider of electronic medical, scientific, and academic research information solutions Founded in 1988 2001: Ovid merged with Silver Platter More than 200 bibliographic databases in Science, Technology, General Academic and Medicine More than 1,200 electronic journals More than 700 electronic books

3. OvidSP OvidSP: A new platform Lunched October 25 th 2007 Searching and using the results easier and more efficient Natural language searching Relevance ranking of results

4. OvidSP Database searching: Refine your search with Boolean Logic (AND OR NOT) When you need to Narrow your search, reducing the number of items returned by the database, one method is to make your search more specific by adding search terms to the original. These terms are combined with AND Specificity

5. OvidSP Database searching: Refine your search with Boolean Logic (AND OR NOT) When you need to Broaden your search, rising the number of items returned by the database, one method is to make your search more sensitive by adding synonyms to the original. These terms are combined with OR. Sensitivity

6. OvidSP How does OvidSP Basic Search work? With Basic Search, simply enter a search term or ask a question in ordinary, everyday English terms 1. OvidSP filters the terms of your query, eliminating irrelevant noise words and convert it into validated search terms/phrases. Example: Search QueryOvidSP Validated Terms/Phrases weather related migraineweather migraine

7. OvidSP 2. OvidSP expands the validated terms to include: Word variations Strong synonyms (such as alternate names of drugs or diseases) Acronyms Alternative spellings Unified Medical Language System [UMLS] Meta-thesaurus, medical dictionaries and thesauri, medical acronyms, drug and disease names, and standard American and British English dictionaries

8. OvidSP 3. OvidSP analyzes the validated terms to identify the nouns, noun phrases, and adjectives then incorporate them into an overall, expanded search strategy OvidSP Validated TermsOvidSP Expanded (Sensitivity) weather weathers OR weather migraine(hemicrania OR migraines OR anencephalies partial OR anencephaly hemicranial OR anencephaly incomplete OR anencephaly partial OR headache migraine OR headaches migraine OR hemicranial anencephaly OR incomplete anencephaly OR incomplete anencephaly hemicrania OR migraine headache OR migraine headaches OR migraine unspecified OR partial anencephalies OR partial anencephaly)

9. OvidSP 4. OvidSP then executes searches using these expansions with relevancy-ranked results

10. Thank you Bakheet Beshatwy bsbeshtawy@dohms.gov.ae 04-219-1908