Ovid Introduces Ovid Universal Search™ ,
An Exclusive Cross-Platform Search Solution within OvidSP

New York, NY (October 8, 2008) – Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health and a global leader in the development and delivery of customizable electronic research information for the medical, scientific and academic markets, today announced the introduction of Ovid Universal Search™, a new, premium cross-platform search solution now made available on OvidSP, the market-leading information precision search and discovery platform.  

“We’re excited to bring to market a unique search offering that directly reflects what we have learned to be the primary need of both information managers and end users:  deliver all the search functionality, access to full text, and workflow management tools all within one powerful platform,” said Karen Abramson, President and CEO of Ovid. “End users are urging our librarian partners to select an easy-to-use platform that cuts down on redundant searching and speeds workflow.  For this release of OvidSP, we’ve built a groundbreaking solution—Ovid Universal Search—that allows users to search across boundaries and save and manage their results, regardless of the source, within a single platform.”

With this release, OvidSP takes search to the next level of innovation. Ovid Universal Search is a new premium search solution available as an optional, premium feature that delivers cross-platform content searching all within OvidSP. Users don’t have to conduct redundant searches of their content holdings on multiple platforms; they can simultaneously search all of their institution’s subscribed content wherever it resides, whether it’s available on OvidSP, free sites such as PubMed, or other subscription platforms. OvidSP and search results from other sources are displayed in an easy-to-read tabular format.  Users can take advantage of many of OvidSP’s search and workflow tools to refine, manage, and save results retrieved through Ovid Universal Search.

“The development of the OvidSP platform has been driven by hundreds of in-depth interviews with those conducting their scholarly research across the globe. The key frustration of these professionals and academics is: How can I reduce the redundancies in my research?” said Andrew L. Popper, Vice President of Global Products. “Accordingly, we introduced simultaneous searching across all product types in OvidSP’s initial launch last year. Now, we’re taking it a giant step further, by allowing that search to go even beyond the holdings that users have access to on OvidSP, allowing them to import the results from other platforms and apply the same familiar tools they know for managing results on OvidSP.”

About Ovid
Ovid is a global information solutions provider offering clinicians, professionals, students, and researchers in the medical, scientific, and academic fields customizable solutions of content, tools, and services that make research smarter, faster, and more effective. Ovid is used by the world’s leading colleges and universities; medical schools; academic research libraries and library consortia; hospitals and healthcare systems; pharmaceutical, engineering and biotechnology companies; and HMOs and clinical practices.

Ovid is a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a division of Wolters Kluwer. For more information, go to ovid.com.

About Wolters Kluwer Health
Wolters Kluwer Health (Conshohocken, PA), a division of Wolters Kluwer, is a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. Major brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Facts & Comparisons®; electronic information providers, such as Ovid, Medi-Span® and ProVation; and pharmaceutical information providers such as Adis International and Source®. Wolters Kluwer Health has annual revenues (2007) of $1,044 million (€761 million) and employs approximately 2,700 employees globally. For more information, visit www.WKHealth.com.