Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it is providing hospitals and healthcare centers around the world with free 30-day access to the Ovid MEDLINE's database and CABI's Global Health database on the OvidSP platform. The move is projected to help physicians, pediatricians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals combat the current H1N1 flu outbreak that is seriously affecting thousands of people globally.
As a leading aggregator of medical content, Ovid also invites other publishers to join its efforts to support immediate access to important medical and scientific resources so healthcare workers can quickly and effectively respond to the outbreak. In addition, UpToDate, Ovid's sister company within Wolters Kluwer Health, is also supporting the global fight against H1N1 by providing free access to professional and patient articles. UpToDate is allowing free access to two professional topics and one patient topic via its marketing website, www.uptodate.com.
MEDLINE, produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, is a widely used bibliographic source for current biomedical research dating back to 1948. Updated daily, MEDLINE includes more than 18 million records drawn from more than 3,900 journals and other publications in over 70 countries. The OvidSP implementation of MEDLINE provides researchers and clinicians with fast access to precise and comprehensive answers to their search queries.
CABI's Global Health claims to be the only bibliographic, abstracting and indexing database available to public health research and practice. Indexing journals and other full-text publications produced in more than 150 countries in 50 languages, the database contains a growing list of more than 2 million bibliographic records. Users will find hundreds of bibliographic records with specific information on swine flu in humans.
