Ovid

Ovid's mission is "to support and improve information access for researchers, clinicians, and students in scientific, medical, and academic communities worldwide by providing innovative and interlinked text retrieval software and database solutions." The target audience includes clinicians and students from all health care disciplines, researchers, and information professionals.

Ovid provides access to various resources, including bibliographic databases (such as Medline, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, and CINAHL); more than 300 full text journals; and such other clinical information products as Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR) and some textbooks. This year, Ovid will also include Clinical Evidence , which is a semiannual compendium of evidence of the benefits and harms of some common clinical interventions. Full descriptions of the contents of each of these components are available at http://www.ovid.com . Ovid is fully integrated, and a single search engine is used for all the databases and full text journals. Access to each database is purchased separately or can be purchased as part of a package.

EBMR contains Best Evidence (which includes the contents of ACP...