Ovid offers the medical, scientific, and academic communities customizable solutions of high-quality core and niche content fully integrated with their institutional holdings; best-in-class technology tools that enhance search precision and speed workflow, maximizing research productivity; and consultative, award-winning support and training services. All in one place!

We bring a singular focus to our product offerings—improve research productivity. OvidSP, our industry-leading online search and discovery platform, continues to break barriers to transform the research community. OvidSP’s unique tools and features are designed to maximize search precision and efficiency, and simplify and speed analysis and workflow—all in a simple, integrated and easy-to-use system.

Ovid offers tremendous depth and breadth of content via OvidSP and published by the world’s leading publishers:

• More than 4,500 ebooks, including  60 book collections, including archive collections of critical historical material, publisher collections, and topical collections
• Over 1,200 premium, peer-reviewed journals- with no embargoes! Plus 50 journal collections, including archive collections and packages based on publisher or subject
• Over 100 bibliographic and full-text databases

Our content covers a wide range of core and niche scientific, medical, and healthcare disciplines and topical areas, including:

• Agriculture & Food Sciences
• Bioengineering & Biotechnology
  
• Clinical Medicine
  
• Computer Science & Technology
  
• Dentistry
  
• Earth & Environmental Sciences
  
• Engineering
  
• Evidence-Based Medicine
  
• Geology
  
• Life Sciences
• Neurology & Neurosciences
  
• Nursing & Allied Health
  
• Pharmacy & Pharmacology
  
• Philosophy & Religion
  
• Physics
  
• Psychology & Psychiatry
  
• Social Sciences & the Humanities
  
• Technical Sciences
  
• Veterinary Medicine
  
• Zoology

Ovid is a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy.  Major brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Facts & Comparisons®; and electronic information providers, such as Ovid®, UpToDate®, Medi-Span® and ProVation® Medical.

History
Founded in 1988 as a small software start-up, Ovid was one of the first businesses to recognize the rapidly expanding capabilities of information technology.  From its start helping librarians and researchers access and search MEDLINE records, Ovid has grown into a world leader in information access providing electronic content, research capabilities, and support services to users worldwide. Today, millions of information managers, researchers, students, and clinicians around the world have access to the OvidSP complete research solution to inform their work to improve patient care, fuel new discoveries and enhance ongoing research.

Locations
Ovid is a global organization, headquartered in New York, New York, with offices located all over the world. View a list of additional Ovid offices and locations.