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February 16, 2024
Aspects of the Discovery search can be configured and customised, including the Query, Facets & Filters, Results and Security.
Please ensure to click on the Save button after making any selections in this page, to apply the selections to the live interface.
Query
Configuration options are available for the following aspects of the Discovery Search Query:
Spell Check
Ovid Discovery will detect misspellings and alter the search to use the correct spelling according to the vocabulary of the selected language. Choose the language option most likely to be used by your user community.
The following language selections are currently available:
Here the Spell Check has corrected misspelt ‘opthalmology’ to ‘ophthalmology’ (English UK and US):
Auto-Suggest
Ovid Discovery provides type-ahead suggested terms and phrases for the user to select as they are entering their search in the discovery search box. Options are available to choose a General or Medical lexicon as the basis for the suggested terms. Choosing the Medical lexicon will provide suggestions from a specialist Medical vocabulary, and is recommended if Ovid Discovery is being utilized in a Medical institution.
The Medical and General lexicons are available in the following languages:
General:
Medical:
Here Ovid Discovery is providing type-ahead suggestions from the Medical lexicon as the user types ‘diabetes’:
Citation Query Parsing
The Citation Query Parsing option enables Ovid Discovery to parse search queries entered as citations, identifying the article title, journal name and other bibliographic details from the format of the search query.
Here Ovid Discovery has found the correct result simply by searching for the citation Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2017 Jun 3;13(6):1-9
