Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it will be showcasing recent enhancements to Ovid Universal Search, its cross-platform search solution, at the ongoing Online Information conference. It also plans to showcase the implementation of a new psychology lexicon based on the American Psychological Association (APA)’s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
Ovid Universal Search seeks to enable users to search all of their institution’s subscribed content, regardless of whether that content is available via OvidSP or other content aggregators. Users can retrieve and manage their OvidSP and non-OvidSP (Universal Search) results within the OvidSP interface. The latest enhancements are designed to improve navigation and customisation of Universal Search results, and enable users to view all retrieved Universal Search records in one consolidated results set; de-duplicate Universal Search results; easily identify duplicates to view their research trail; link to full text from Universal Search results (when available); use Search Aid functionality for Universal Search results; and request additional Universal Search results beyond those already retrieved in the initial set.
Ovid’s new proprietary Psychology lexicon is projected to combine the APA’s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms with the Natural Language Processing (NLP) feature of OvidSP’s Basic Search. NLP’s term expansion functionality broadens a user’s search query when searching the APA databases of PsycINFO, PsycCRITIQUES, PsycBOOKS, PsycARTICLES and PsycEXTRA to include related terms and synonyms, in a bid to deliver a comprehensive set of results.
Attendees are invited to attend 15-minute presentations in Ovid’s Booth (#512) on Ovid Universal Search and the new Psychology lexicon. A third in-booth presentation updating attendees on Nursing@Ovid, the company’s nursing and allied health portal, is also scheduled. Ovid representatives will also be on hand to discuss the latest content acquisitions, including e-books from the Royal Society of Chemistry, Oxford University Press, and Ovid’s sister company Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, as well as journals from CIG Media, AHC Media and Springer Publishing.
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