OvidSP's PPV: Shopping Cart
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Your PPV Shopping Cart

Click the Buy Now link from within your session and OvidSP opens your PPV shopping cart. OvidSP will display purchase information for OvidSP Full Text selected during your session.

Use the shopping cart to manage the OvidSP Full Text selections you want to purchase.

 Returns to your OvidSP session.
Deletes a selection from your shopping cart.
Returns to the titles display of your OvidSP session.
Completes the purchase of the OvidSP Full Text selection selected during your session.

Place as many selections as you want into your shopping cart. Return to your OvidSP session between selections by clicking either the Return to Ovid link or the select additional articles for purchase link.

The PPV shopping cart tracks selections made during a single session. Ovid Full Text selections cannot be accessed from the shopping cart.
OvidSP PPV sessions (including shopping cart display) time out after 60 minutes of inactivity. If this happens (or if you close the PPV browser window), OvidSP deletes the selections from your cart.
Default time out for OvidSP PPV sessions vary depending on the settings at your site. For details, contact your site administrator.

Click the Proceed to Checkout button when you have made all the selections you want. OvidSP will open the PPV Customer Login Page. OvidSP requires that you log in to your PPV account before it displays billing information.

PPV Billing Information

OvidSP opens the Billing Information Page once you log in. Fill in all required information fields, then click the Continue Order button.
 OvidSP masks the numbers of your credit card.

The Card Security Code field provides added security and is a required field. Enter the three or four digit code from the back of your credit card.

Order Summary

Click the Continue Order button and OvidSP will open the Order Summary Page.


Returns you to your Ovid search session.
 Lets you change the billing address for the current purchase.
Lets you change your payment method.
Completes your purchase.
Cancels your order.
 Transactions take a few seconds to process. Do not click the Complete Order button more than once. Your credit card may be charged each time you click it.

Click the Complete Order button, and OvidSP issues a receipt for your transaction.

Receipt Page

From the receipt display, you may print, save, or view a copy of your purchase. OvidSP sends a copy of the receipt to your email account.

Click here for details about access to purchased Ovid Full Text.

 Be sure to close your web browser window to clear your credit card information from the cache, especially if you share a computer or use a public computer in purchasing OvidSP Full Text.

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