Ovid Discovery

A Unified Discovery and Delivery Platform Focused and
Specialized In Biomedical Content

Ovid Discovery Library Service Management tools

Ovid Discovery is a Library Service Management product, offering you several tools and functionalities that enable you
to fulfil all your library’s needs.

Online Forms

Using this tool, you can quickly and easily create different online forms to improve workflow and communication with your users.

Library users can communicate with you using an online form that you can publish in any web resource, including ODS landing pages.

Here are some examples:

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Calendars

Using the Ovid Discovery Calendar tool, you can promote different events, conferences, and training sessions offered by your library or institution.

You can publish calendars in your ODS landing page.

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Polls

Using Ovid Discovery Polls, you can create a poll or survey, asking your users about one specific topic, e.g. a feature, course, need or addition to the library.

These are easy to create and maintain, and are a quick way to collect user feedback.

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Document Delivery

Through the Document Delivery feature on ODS, you can easily enable users to request any document or article that isn’t available in the library’s holdings.

The ODS Document Delivery system can be fully customized and branded.

ODS automatically imports all article details into the Document Delivery form.

You can configure the ODS Document Delivery feature so it’s only displayed when no other full text option is available.

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Blogs

Blogs allow your users to post their own comments, that you can share across your institution.

You can implement Journal Club features or start discussions about current and popular topics.

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Other features:

RSS feeds – create automatically updated RSS feeds that you can publish in your library portal for:

  • - Articles that reference your institution (Your Institution’s Scientific Production)
  • - Latest articles on current topics
  • - Most viewed articles within your institution, and more…

CME Credits – You can now collect CME credits in OvidDiscovery, based on your searching activity. Click here for more information about this new feature.

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Save time for library staff

Why Ovid Discovery?

A reintroduction to your library encourages your users to discover and use all available resources and services

Full implementation, customization, and continuous maintenance support provided by the Ovid support team

Better insight into users’ search and content usage behaviour

Integration with UpToDate®, Lippincott Procedures, and Lippincott Advisor®

Daily ongoing updates of both index and knowledgebase

Available in 4 languages—English, French, German, and Spanish

The portal homepage consolidates all your library resources and services into one place so users can easily see what is available. Here some examples of how diferent can be the customizations we can do for you library homepage:

Community

Ovid Discovery Community Online Resource

Visit our Ovid Discovery Community Online Resource to keep updated about all the latest features, additional content and news from Ovid Discovery.

Ovid Discovery Community online resource would allow you to post and add your own comments and exchange information with peers and colleagues as well as Ovid Support teams.


Help & Training

Ovid Discovery Factsheet

Ovid Discovery User Guide

Ovid Online Training

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Contact

Contact Ovid Technical Support

Our Technical Support and Customer Service Specialists are here to help. Find the support office nearest you, or contact us by writing to: support@ovid.com


Contact Ovid Training Department

Contact Ovid Trainers at an Ovid office nearest you, or write to: ovidtrainer@ovid.com