Ovid Technologies Field Guide

Ovid OLDMEDLINE (medo)

Scope

MEDLINE® is the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) premier bibliographic database. The citations in this Ovid OLDMEDLINE database are for articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences, and allied health sciences, originally printed in hardcopy indexes published from 1950 through 1965.

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General Information

Searching the Database Fields

The following list is sorted alphabetically by field alias. Click a field name to see the description and search information.

The following list is sorted alphabetically by the two-letter label, and includes the relevant alias, at least one example for all searchable fields, and a description of the field.

Advanced Searching

You can use special words and symbols to combine search terms and refine a search. For efficient searching, use the most appropriate operator from the list below to combine search terms. For more information on these and other searching techniques, including command line syntax searching, refer to the Ovid Gateway Help.

Stopwords

At customer request, StopWords have been eliminated from this database. You can now search for words or phrases like is there hope.tw.  Previously such searches would have returned an error because they included stopwords.

Limits

The following limits are available from the Limit a Search Page. Access this page by clicking the More Limits icon on the Main Search Page.

Female, Humans, Male

Tools

Changing to this Database from Another Database

To change a search session to a MEDLINE segment from another database or MEDLINE segment, use the change database icon on the Main Search Page.

Sample Documents

<1>
Unique Identifier
   13078909
Record Owner
   NLM
Authors
   WERNSDORFER R.
Authors Full Name
   WERNSDORFER, R. 
Title
   [Penicillin treatment of syphilis].
Original Title
   Penicillinbehandlung der Syphilis.
Source
   Zeitschrift fur Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten. 
   14(4):126-31; concl, 1953 Feb 15.
Abbreviated Source
   Z Haut Geschlechtskr. 14(4):126-31; concl, 1953 Feb 15.
NLM Journal Name
   Zeitschrift fur Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten.
Publishing Model
   Journal available in: Print
   Citation processed from: Print
NLM Journal Code
     xvi, 0367575
Journal Subset
     OM
Country of Publication
   Not Available
MeSH Subject Headings
   *Penicillins / tu [Therapeutic Use]
   *Syphilis / th [Therapy]
Keyword Heading
   *PENICILLIN/therapeutic use; *SYPHILIS/therapy.
ISSN Print
   0044-2844
Publication Type
     Journal Article.
Language
     English Undetermined
Date of Publication
   1953 Feb 15
Entry Date
   20030501
Revision Date
   20051116
Update Date
   20031209

Producer Copyright Information

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The following use of data from MEDLINE, Ovid AIDSLINE, Ovid BIOETHICSLINE and Ovid HEALTHSTAR requires no written permission from or signed licence agreement with NLM:

Users may download small amounts of data, e.g., the bibliographic citation and MeSH® terms, for a small number of citations from the databases listed above for redistribution either via a printed publication or in electronic form using the Internet, World Wide Web, etc. Downloading from a MEDLARS licensee, such as OVID is subject to the licensee's approval.

Definitions:

1. Download includes ftping results of an online search, arranging for the results of an automatic stored search to be available for ftp, ftping MEDLARS data from the NLM server (nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov), or a traditional download using a modem.

2. Small is defined as approximately 1,000 records per month from MEDLINE; 12,000 per year. Retrospective pulls of MEDLINE may include up to approximately 12,000 records for each year covered. For other MEDLARS databases, fewer than 25% of records in the file may be downloaded. For larger portions of a MEDLARS database, contact Janer@nlm.nih.gov or 301-496-7706 for licensing information.

3. Data is defined as bibliographic citations and MeSH terms. This document grants permission to download only the bibliographic citations and MeSH terms, it does not cover author abstracts from the journals which are included in MEDLINE and other MEDLARS databases. Users should obtain an opinion from their legal counsel for any use they plan for the author-generated abstracts in the MEDLARS database.

Terms and Conditions:

Users must ensure that all downloaded publicly accessible data stored in electronic form for over one year must be in compliance with the following provisions of the NLM license agreement:

A. Users of this data must be provided a clear description of how the product/service was derived, indicating the currency and the source database.

B. At least annually, the data downloaded must be corrected to incorporate the corrections NLM has made to these records during the year and in year end maintenance. MEDLARS data in any subsequently produced product/service must be carefully checked with that maintained on NLM's version of the database at the end of each calender year and corrections made.

C. Users are advised to consult legal counsel to ensure compliance with intellectual property laws. NLM cannot provide advice about copyright issues.

D. Since NLM goes to considerable efforts to assign MeSH terms, it prefers that these be retained as assigned by the indexers.

E. All downloaded NLM records (or portions thereof) must be labeled so as to identify NLM as the source.

F. Trademark symbols must properly be used when referring to the NLM databases, system and products. A product/service using downloaded data must be named in a fashion that clearly distinguishes it from NLM-produced databases accessible at NLM.

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Field Guide last updated June 20, 2006

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