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Whether they’re expert or beginning searchers, users want to find the information they need quickly and in a way that meets their needs. Designed to enable all types of users to search the way they want, OvidSP combines powerful search functionality, flexible and customizable tools, and a sleek, intuitive interface. All of the features and functionality are based on direct feedback from librarians, information managers, and end users just like you.

Ovid continues to transform how users search for electronic scholarly literature with Ovid Universal Search™, an innovative, ground-breaking solution that makes searching faster, more powerful, and more efficient, by enabling you to search content resources across multiple platforms using just one interface — OvidSP. With a single search query you can retrieve results from all your subscribed holdings and display them within OvidSP. That means you don’t have to spend time working with multiple platforms, going through numerous steps and clicks to get your results. Only Ovid Universal Search offers true cross-platform searching fully integrated into the architecture of one platform.

• Multiple search modes – OvidSP is geared to all types of searchers—from beginners to the more advanced. Depending on how they search and the information they’re looking for,users simply choose their preferred search style and go!
• Basic Search– Geared to novice or occasional searchers, Basic allows you to search using natural language processing, and retrieve relevance-ranked results.
• Advanced Ovid Search/SilverPlatter Search – Supports Boolean search terms and command line syntax searching.
• Multi-Field Search – Allows users to combine search terms using multiple search fields all in one step.
• Find Citation – Already know at least part of a bibliographic citation? Search using the digital object identifier (DOI) or other unique identifiers.
• Search Tools – Use specific tools, such as trees, permuted index, scope notes, explode, and more to find information.
• Search Fields – Search using abstracts, author name, ISSN, and other specific criteria.

Instructional text on best practices for using a specific search mode are included.

• Natural language searching – Available in the Basic Search mode, natural language processing allows users to enter a question in everyday natural language.
  
  
• Advanced search functionality – OvidSP supports the preferred search style of many expert power users with search functionality like thesauri, subject headings, term mapping, limits, and more.
  
  
• Simultaneous searching across all content types – Quickly and easily search books, databases, and journals at the same time.
  
  
• Search refinement tools – Provide greater analysis of search terms and strategies.
• The Search Aid allows you to broaden or narrow terms. Hide the Search Aid to expand real estate on the page. Link directly to the tree.
• Move the Search History above or below the main search box, according to how you like to work. Sort searches in ascending or descending order. Identify searches by type—Basic Search, Advanced, and more.
  
  
• Fast, flexible results management – OvidSP is designed to support the way you work. Organize, manage, and analyze your search results with simple, time-saving tools.  
• Results Manager– Now located above and below the search results list to accommodate a variety of user preferences as they conduct their search. Save, email, and print your results, and expand or collapse to expand screen real estate. Plus, change the number of results displayed on each page.
• Sortable search results - Use a simple pull-down box to sort results based on available fields—database name, unique identifier, and more.
• De-duplication of multi-file results - Eliminate repetitive results automatically when you’re searching multiple
• Inline abstracts –Citation abstracts are now on the same page as your result. Expand or collapse abstracts for easy viewing.
• Annotations – Create, view, and edit one or more notes to a search result. Marked by yellow icons, annotations always stay with your results.
• Find Similar Articles feature – Link to related articles from a search result’s complete reference display.

• Content updates delivered via RSS or email – Customized alerting mechanisms help you stay current on the latest research.
• eTOCS – Electronic tables of contents track changes in a specific journal’s table of contents.
• AutoAlerts -Get saved searches delivered automatically whenever new articles match your search criteria become available.