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Quick Reference Card Version 4.1.0

Main Search Screen

Subject Search - Search by entering a single subject word or phrase at the Enter Keyword or phrase line and click on the Perform Search button. Mapping will help find relevant subject headings for your term in databases where Map Term to Subject Heading is available and selected. In databases where Mapping is not available, the word or phrase will be searched in the keyword fields for that database.

Author Search - Search for documents by a specific author by clicking on the Author icon. Enter the author's last name followed by first initial.

Title Search - Click the Title icon to search for documents that contain your desired word or phrase in the title field.

Journal Search - Search for documents in a specific journal by clicking on the Journal icon. Enter the first few letters of a full journal name, do not use abbreviations.

Search Fields - Search for a word or phrase contained in one or more specific document fields by clicking on the Search Fields icon.

Tools - Search for documents in the specific indexing structures of the current database such as the vocabulary Tree, Thesaurus, Table of Contents and others by clicking on the Tools icon. Note: Tools is not available in every database.

Combine - Click on the Combine icon to use the Boolean operators "AND" or "OR" to combine the results of two or more existing search sets. "NOT," used to exclude topics, must be entered directly on the Enter Keyword or phrase line (e.g. pregnancy not birth).

Limit Set - Click on the Limit icon to restrict the results of a search to a specific limit(s) such as language, publication type, or latest update. Select one of the search sets and then select one or more specific limits from the list of available limits. One or more common limits located under the Enter Keyword or phrase line can be selected before you create a search set.

Basic - Click on the Basic icon to switch from Advanced to Basic mode.

Change Database - Start or re-run a search in a new database or database segment by clicking on the Change Database icon. Select a new database or database segment from the list of available databases.

Logoff - Click on the LOGOFF icon to exit from the Ovid software. This ends the connection to the Ovid server and frees a user license. Logoff can also be selected from the document display screen.

? Help - For more detailed explanations of all topics, click on Ovid's online Help, which can be found at the top right corner of the Main Search screen. For additional reference materials, please visit Ovid Technologies' home page at: www.ovid.com.

Saving, Executing, and Deleting, a Search History

To Save, click on the Save Search History button located under the Search History table after at least one search statement is created. To Execute a saved search, click on the Run Saved Search button located under the Search History table. Then, from the displayed list of current saved search histories, select Run, Display or Delete. To Delete a search statement or the entire search history, click the Delete Searches button located below the Search History table.

Remove Duplicates from a Multifile search set Click the Remove Duplicates button located below the Search History table. Only search sets of 6,000 or less can be deduped. Note: This button only appears if your site has Multifile enabled and selected.

Title and Citation Display The Title Display appears below the general limits on the Main Search page. To view results, scroll down the Main Search page or click the corresponding search set Display button. Additional fields may be displayed by selecting the Complete Reference button and where available, Abstract and Full Text buttons or by selecting Customize Display located immediately above the Title Display. Select Records by clicking on the box in front of the record from the Title Display or by clicking on the box at the top of the page from the Citation Display.

Web Citation Manager

Print, Email and Save from the Citation Manager The Citation Manager is located at the end of every Title Display Page. Make selections from options provided then print, email, or save.

To Print with the hypertext links included, select Display from the Action column and then select Print from the browser software.
To Print without the hypertext links, select Print Preview from the Action column and then select Print from the browser software.
To Email documents, select Email from the Action column. Input a valid Internet email address at the option Email Citations to:. You may enter more than one email address. You will be prompted for other options when available.
To Save documents, select Save from the Action column. This will invoke your browser's save utility. Make selections based on options presented. To save documents to a floppy disk, make sure you select the appropriate drive.

Command Line Syntax
Delete a Search Statement from the Search History Enter on the Enter Keyword or phrase line: ..pg x (where "pg" means purge, i.e. delete a search statement, and x is the search set number) or ..pg x,x,x-x (where x are multiple search sets and/or a range of search sets).

Field Qualification
Individual fields may be searched directly from the Enter Keyword or phrase line, using the appropriate two letter field identifier, set off with either periods or parentheses, e.g. diazepam.ti. or diazepam(ti). Select the Search Fields icon for a complete list of searchable fields.

Index Searching
Display any field index by using the root command, e.g. root food.ti. Select the Search Fields icon for a list of searchable indexes.

Boolean and Positional Operators, Combining Terms

(pregnancy or birth).ti. - either term appears in the title
(pregnancy and birth).ti. - both terms appear in the title
(pregnancy not birth).ti. - includes 1st term, but excludes 2nd in the title
1 or 2 - retrieves all documents from search set 1 as well as search set 2
pregnancy tests.tw. - adjacency is assumed
(information adjX retrieval).tw. - retrieves phrases in which "information" and "retrieval" are within X words of each other in either direction

Truncation - statements should be field qualified

Use $ or : to retrieve unlimited suffix variations (e.g. computer$.ti.)
Use # to replace exactly one character (e.g. wom#n.ti.)
Use ? to replace 0 or 1 character (e.g. labo?r.ti.)

Using Subject Headings (for databases with a thesaurus)

eye/ Search Subject Heading directly (bypass mapping)
eye/de or eye/de,su Include indicated Subheading(s)
exp eye Explode a subject heading
*eye Restrict to Focus, i.e. major emphasis of article(s)
ptx eye View the Permuted subject heading index
tree eye or thes eye View a term in the subject heading Tree or Thesaurus
scope eye Display Scope note for the subject heading
sh eye Display available Subheadings for the subject heading