Ovid Discovery

A Unified Discovery and Delivery Platform Focused and
Specialized In Biomedical Content

+250 million Biomedical Resources
Save users and
library staff time
Multiple Access Option
Increase awareness and usage
of your e-Resources

Ovid Discovery Service

Ovid Discovery is the world’s most advanced discovery platform developed specifically for health, biomedical, and pharmaceutical electronic libraries—helping solve the growing challenges of the digital library. It provides your users with a single-search, one-stop shop solution for all their research needs.

Increase Discoverability:

  • A central portal homepage consolidates all your library resources and services into one place so users can easily see what is available and become more aware of everything your library has to offer
  • Familiar web-scale search enables users of all experience levels with a single search point to easily find the relevant content they need across all of your library’s collections and other external sources—plus advanced search options for detailed control of results
  • Most precise medical searching functionality: Ovid Discovery searching tools with MeSH-controlled vocabulary thesaurus
  • Ability to create different search indexes based on speciality, nature of the content, language, and more
  • Indexing of non-journal content such as books, videos, images, and more
  • Ability to find precise results through industry-leading filtering and navigation options
  • Filter results showing available full text

Save time and money with easy and customized implementation:

Ovid’s award-winning customer service and support team will provide full implementation, customization, and maintenance of Ovid Discovery in your library - requiring a minimal amount of resources and time for your library staff

  • Library Resources A to Z tool
  • Integrated OpenURL link resolver (no implementation required!)
  • eTOC alerts system for over 16,000 journals!
  • Customized library portal homepage
  • Data analytics and usage reporting assistance
  • Mobile device friendly with fully compliant and adaptable interface

Ovid Discovery Key Features

A Unified Discovery and Delivery Platform Focused and Specialized In Biomedical Content

Searches an index of over +100 million scholarly e-resources, including Journal Articles, Books, Videos, Multimedia, Images, Reports, Procedures, Blogs, Systematic Reviews, and more. Presents a modern search experience from search syntax through results display and continuous workflows.
The only Discovery tool to feature unique content from UpToDate, Lippincott Procedures, VisualDx and more.
Offers multi-language search terms matching with MeSH terms.

Ovid Discovery Library Service Management tools

Ovid Discovery is a Library Service Management product, offering you several tools and functionalities that enable you
to fulfil all your library’s needs.

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Journals with eTOC
Alert System

Save time for library staff

Easier training

Teaches users one interface as a complete discovery and delivery hub for all library resources

Drives usage

To the appropriate access option of a subscribed resource

No cataloging required

Easily managed based on a global knowledgebase

Simple Maintenance

Ability to easily populate and maintain your collection

Better renewal decisions

Usage stats and analytics identify which users are utilizing the service and what resources are most used and unused

Identify missing content

Usage analytics show titles requested frequently but missing from your collection

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