Produced by The U.S. National Library of Medicine,
MEDLARS Management Section. "The premier source for bibliographic
coverage of biomedical literature." [OVID description] OVID
HIGHLIGHTS - Advanced Ovid Mapping analyzes users' natural
language queries and suggests appropriate terms for searching. Extensive
Vocabulary Features include Graphical Thesaurus with Scope Notes,
Multiple Tree Structures, Subheadings, Explode Capability, and Permuted
Index Command Level Searching provides a full array of sophisticated
features, including automatic pre-explodes for almost every MeSH term,
SDIs, Saved Searches, post-qualification of previous sets, and emulation
of "dot-dot" and NLM search syntax. DATABASE-SPECIFIC
SEARCH LIMITS - Abstracts, Age Groups, AIM Journals, Animal,
Animal Types, English Language, Female, Human, Journal Subsets, Languages,
Latest Update, Male, Publication Types, Review Articles, Year of Publication.
COVERAGE - 1966-pres.
UPDATES - Monthly. SUBJECTS
COVERED - Information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature,
and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in
the areas of communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive
biology. TYPES/NUMBERS OF PUBLICATIONS
COVERED - Over 3,600 journals. SEARCHABLE
FIELDS - Abstract (ab), Author (au), CAS Registry Number (rn),
Country of Publication (cp), Entry Month (em), Exploded Sub-Heading
(xs), Floating Sub-Heading (fs), Gene Symbol (gs), Gene Symbol Word
(gw), Institution (in), ISSN (is), Issue/Part (ip), Journal Name (jn),
Journal Subset (sb), Journal Word (jw), Language (lg), MeSH Subject
Heading (sh), Molecular Sequence (ms), Page (pg), Publication Type
(pt), Subject Heading Word (hw),Text Word (tw), Title (ti), Unique
Identifier (ui), Volume (vo),Year of Publication (yr), among others.
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