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Journals@Ovid – Database Content and Display

How to retrieve and display a single article reference, cited in two different databases, Journals@Ovid and Ovid MEDLINE, in order to compare the content and format of the database record for the respective resource.

Databases – Combinations

Ovid Training Team

2025-05-19

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Background

Journals@Ovid is an aggregated online database of all the journals available via the Ovid platform. These journals are from a variety of sources, principally, Lippincott®, Williams & Wilkins (LWW), from societies as well as from partnering publishers. The actual journals in full-text that you have access to will depend upon the selection of journal packages (2), groups of journals or individual publications your institution has subscribed to. Be sure to check with your librarian.

Accessible via the Ovid platform, collections of full-text journals as well as single publications can be searched on and across using Ovid's powerful search functionality. Journal content can be displayed and retrieved in PDF format. Or alternatively in the browser-based Ovid Full Text format, which in turn facilitates targeted navigation through the journal's content using the Outline feature. This format also enables the provision of information sharing and export via Tools. 

Journals@Ovid – Facts and Figures (1)

  • Journals@Ovid is an aggregated online database of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals.
  • The Ovid Full Text Collections are subsets of journals combined for local access.
  • The journals covered are from over 50 publishers and societies.
  • Each journal is nevertheless available by individual subscription.
  • Purchase of any of Ovid's Full Text journals, provides access to all the bibliographic citations in the database.
  • The bibliographic citation information includes the title, references and abstract (where available) for each database record,  all of which are searchable.

Training Session Programme

This Learning Pathway series of training modules draws upon the content and teaching approaches in and behind the learning resource OvidGO! (3). Constructed around a selection of focused searches, the training programme has been designed to achieve the following two objectives,

  1. to introduce the database, Journals@Ovid, drawing upon where helpful, parallels and comparisons with Ovid MEDLINE,
  2. to discuss, demonstrate and practice the key features and functionality of the database Journals@Ovid. 

(1). Journals@Ovid Database Guide
https://ovidsp.dc1.ovid.com/ovid-new-b/ovidweb.cgi?&S=876bba95-4fa0-485f-95c9-386b9ccfaab1%7cmain&Database+Field+Guide=53

(2). Journals@Ovid
https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions/ovid/platforms-products/journals

(3). OvidGO! Learning Resource
https://tools.ovid.com/ovidgo/

This focused search, conducted across two databases (Journals@Ovid and Ovid MEDLINE) in a single session, retrieves two versions of the same article. One version is from Journals@Ovid, the other from Ovid MEDLINE. By comparing these two versions (it is suggested in two different browser windows) you will be able to compare the similarities and differences in the respective displays of each of the records.

Points to note:

  • There are a range of similarities and differences between A&I bibliographic databases.
  • Similarities include the way in which the records are constructed, editorial processes, the use of controlled vocabularies for indexing, limits, author keyword inclusion, how the records may be searched and how the results are displayed.
  • However, differences may also be evident in these very areas, i.e. in way in which the records are constructed, editorial processes, the use of controlled vocabularies for indexing, author keyword inclusion, how the records may be searched and how the results are displayed etc.
  • An awareness of the similarities and differences between A&I bibliographic databases will make for a better understanding of them and help in the construction of search strategies.

Instructions:

  1. Logon to Ovid, select Journals@Ovid <To Present> and Ovid MEDLINE <1946 to Present>.
  2. Select the Advanced Search / Title mode.
  3. Enter the article title as the search for this focused search as listed below.
  4. Alternatively, having not yet logged on,  <Click here> to run this focused search above in Ovid.

"Everything has its price: Foundations of cost-sensitive machine learning and its application in psychology."

which yields...

"Everything has its price: Foundations of cost-sensitive machine learning and its application in psychology.".m_titl.

Practice Suggestions

  1. The search yields three references for two sources. How can you explain this?
  2. Do the versions from the different sources display the same Keyword Headings?
  3. How many major topics are listed in each of the two bibliographic records?

 

 

Search Stategy

"Everything has its price: Foundations of cost-sensitive machine learning and its application in psychology.".m_titl.

Launch Search

Reviewers

Primary: Michael Fanning

Secondary: Charlotte Viken

Review Date: 2025-05-19

Expiry Date: 2026-03-25

Original search produced by:

Ovid Training Team

Citation:

OvidGO! Portal. Focused Searches: Journals@Ovid – Database Content and Display [Internet]. London (UK): Ovid Training Team (Editors); 2025 [updated 2 March 2024; cited 10 March 2025]. Available from: https://tools.ovid.com/ovidgo/searches/view.php?id=121