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From regularly updated pipeline databases to specialty journals and comprehensive textbooks, Ovid offers a wide range of electronic resources in pharmacology, biotechnology, food & agriculture, and related subjects, helping you uncover relevant current or historical information quickly and easily.

Ovid meets your research, discovery and information management needs across an array of therapeutic and disease areas. Simultaneously search and dedupe across industry leading databases, thousands of premium unembargoed journals, and eBooks – Centralize your resources and save time!

  • 100+ Databases including Embase, Ovid MEDLINE® and Biosis combined onto one platform
  • Personalised storage to manage all content for search projects, including external documents
  • Award-winning customer support from implementation to delivery, with 24/7 technical support in 20 languages

Ovid’s database solutions across industries are scalable to your research context

Ovid provides resources to help Contract Research Organisations with research for pharmacovigilance, clinical outcomes assessments and other aspects of the medical industry. CROs gain access to a range of databases, journals, textbooks, and other resources that help them perform in-depth medical research for their clients. These databases are easy to search and use, streamlining the research process. Ovid offers a wealth of life science, biomedical and bioscience resources, including unpublished research, to help prevent gaps in information and keep research up to date.

Ovid includes multiple extensive databases for your Contract Research Organisation’s research needs. Embase provides research in various fields and disciplines, including biotechnology, medical devices, and pharmaceutical science. Ovid MEDLINE® is a biomedical database with historical and current information on diseases, health conditions and drugs to inform your research. Northern Light offers grey literature on drugs, diseases, and medical devices from life science conferences to give a more accurate picture of intervention effectiveness and bias. You also receive access to bonus databases of abstracts and data relevant to the industries your company contracts with.

Ovid improves the research process by simplifying searches and saving time. You can search all of Ovid’s resources at once, while controlled vocabularies keeps you from struggling to find the correct search term. Automatic deduping makes searching faster, cuts down on the overlap of information and helps ensure more accurate results. Ovid also makes research management easier, so you can save time while gaining access to a broad amount of information.

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Ovid’s resources support pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies through research for pharmacovigilance, regulations, and other aspects of the industry. These companies gain access to a vast collection of relevant journals, databases, and textbooks, including important clinical trials, regulatory information, unpublished research, and other pharmaceutical data. Ovid’s method makes it simple to search information and save time, helping streamline the research process.

Members of Ovid gain access to important resources in biosciences, biomedicine, and life sciences through Ovid MEDLINE®, Embase and Northern Light databases. Regularly updated resources help you practice pharmacovigilance, as you can stay abreast with current research on adverse reactions. At the same time, you can combine current research with historical research available to gain a broader understanding of long-term patterns.

Ovid’s resources provide information on the drug pipeline, adverse events, toxicology, drug adherence and other relevant subjects. Ovid MEDLINE® provides information on diseases, conditions, and drugs; Embase includes information for pharmacovigilance and efficacy studies; and Northern Light gives abstracts from life science conferences to provide information on cutting-edge pharmacotherapy and other emerging information. A bonus is the International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) database, which is a thorough reference material on pharmaceutical information and drug therapy. This is just some of the research you will have access to through Ovid.

Ovid also makes the research process easy, so you can move on to analysing and applying the information you have collected. It allows you to search all resources at once to save you time and hassle. Regardless of the terms you use to search, you will receive the same targeted results. Ovid’s system also ensures results are accurate and streamlines information management of the research you have retrieved.

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Ovid helps medical manufacturers with research and lab work to support product development, pharmacovigilance, and efficacy studies. Members can access a wealth of relevant information on medical devices, diseases and drugs through databases, journals, and textbooks, including unpublished research. These resources are in the relevant fields of life science, biomedical and bioscience. The research process is made easy with Ovid’s approach, which speeds up searching while keeping results on target.

You will gain access to historical and current clinical trials and other resources to guide your work. The Northern Light database of life science conference abstracts can help inform the product development process. Ovid gives you access to content on over 50 medical devices, with the ability to search by devices, as well as research on diseases and drugs. New abstracts are continuously added so your research will remain up to date.

The Embase database also provides data on medical devices, in addition to drugs and disease, helping inform pharmacovigilance and efficacy studies for devices. Plus, you gain access to Ovid MEDLINE® biomedical database and other important medical resources. You will be able to access a large collection of data in the form of digital journals, textbooks, and databases.

Ovid makes it easy to perform research and move forward with medical manufacturing. It simplifies the research process through controlled vocabularies that prevents the need for using different search terms, automatic deduping that speeds up retrieval while improving results and other methods that save you time and money during the research phase.

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Ovid provides targeted resources for the food and agriculture industry. Members gain access to important databases, journals and textbooks in life science, bioscience and biomedical, as well as extra resources specific to this industry. Researchers will gain comprehensive information on food science, the food chain and a range of other food and agriculture topics. Researching is made easy through Ovid’s methods, which simplify searches and provide relevant results in less time.

Access to CAB Abstracts provides updated information on food science, nutrition, agriculture, environmental science, and other relevant subjects. Break this down into information on crop science, soil science, plant protection and many other subjects that affect your industry.

Ovid also improves search functionality, information management and other aspects of research to streamline the process. You can expect accurate results without needing different versions of the same search term, and the system will save your searches and review all of Ovid resources simultaneously. Overall, Ovid’s system helps you save on time and money during the research process.

CABI’s Global Health is the only bibliographic and full text database dedicated specifically to public health research and practice. The database’s open serials policy and coverage of international and grey literature means that 60% of the journals contained in Global Health are unique to the database. Everything from proceedings, reports, theses, electronic only publications, and other difficult-to-obtain sources are included.

Specialties include: Community Health and Disease Prevention, Epidemiology, Infectious and Vector-borne Diseases, Nutrition & Dietetics, Parasitology and Mycology, Health Promotion, and Health Systems.

Ovid is not limited to just these solutions. If you are interested and your situation is not covered in the above, do not hesitate to contact us and we can find the personalised solution to your context.

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Our platform meets your research needs

Ovid MEDLINE®, Embase® and BIOSIS® are indexed differently with different indexers – for any publication or article, the policy for indexing and the opinions of the indexer could be different.

However, Ovid lets you search databases separately, together, or alongside other journals or books. Use the resources to best suit your purpose.

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