Ovid Emcare

The New Standard in Nursing and Allied Health Research

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Ovid Emcare

Premium nursing and allied health database of over 5 million records across 3,500 journals.

Ovid Emcare, a partnership with Elsevier, sets a new standard in nursing and allied health research—providing more records and trusted content than any other leading nursing database.

Pairing premium content with the world’s most trusted medical research platform, Ovid Emcare empowers your patrons to deliver high-quality care and improve research processes.

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Ovid Emcare Content:

  • 3,500 international, currently indexed, peer-reviewed journals — more than any other nursing database
  • • 2,800+ titles not available on other leading nursing databases
  • Over 5 million records dating back to 1995
  • Up to 250,000 records/citations added each year
  • Broadest scope of international content — more than any other nursing database: 50% of journals from North America, 40% from Europe; 10% from other regions.
  • • 70% of records with online abstracts
  • More than 80,000 preferred terms in Emtree, expanded with nursing and allied health terms, all mapped to MEDLINE®’s MeSH®

Ovid Emcare brings you:

  • All the great features of Ovid — easy links to full text, exporting, filtering, de-duping, and more
  • More scholarly, peer reviewed, and indexed journals than any other nursing database
  • Easy linking to nonembargoed, full-text journal content
  • Exclusively on Ovid! Lippincott® full text
  • Integration with the trusted Emtree® thesaurus for accurate, relevant results
  • Natural language searching for fast, relevancy-ranked results
  • New content added weekly
  • Ability to search across all your Ovid resources with just a single query

Benefits of Ovid Emcare

For Practice

Ovid Emcare provides practicing nurses & other healthcare workers:

  • • Key evidence needed to support patient care decisions
  • Ability to perform quick searches and retrieve accurate results, so they can provide timely, high-quality care
  • • Natural language searching to save time entering queries and accessing results ranked by relevancy more quickly.

For Learning

Nursing students learning about evidence-based care can use Ovid Emcare to:

  • • Search scholarly nursing and allied health bibliographic data with convenient limits to systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more
  • • Search across other Ovid full-text journal collections, allowing for their research to go beyond just citation gathering
  • • Easily link to non-embargoed, full-text journal content when deeper research is required.

For Research

Ovid Emcare provides researchers carrying out systematic reviews or research projects:

  • A fast, accurate, and expansive resource with more global content than any other nursing & alliedhealth database
  • • Thorough indexing and reference to thousands of exclusive journals unavailable through other leading nursing & allied health databases — ensuring clinical researchers accurate systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • The most accurate results with use of the Emtree thesaurus and weekly updates of new content.

Help & Training

Introduction to Ovid Emcare

Ovid Emcare Database Field Guide

Emcare Indexed Journals

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