JournalsOvid Full Text: viewing issues and table of contents

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Journals_at_Ovid Full Text viewing issues and table
of contents

• Darra Ballance, MLIS
• Statewide AHEC Network

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What is Journals_at_Ovid Full Text?

• Browse through journals by title or subject
• View table of contents for issues
• View or save full-text articles
• Statewide AHEC Network gives you 200 journals
  available in full text

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Using Journals_at_Ovid Full Text

• This tutorial covers
• Browsing by the A-to-Z title list
• Identifying journals with full text available
• Viewing table of contents
• Viewing article full text
• Searching for a journal by its title

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Getting to Ovid

• Use the web address
• httpgateway.ovid.com
• Enter the password assigned to you by your local
  AHEC

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The main Ovid menu click the database title to
start
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Main search menu for Journals_at_Ovid click the
Browse Journals icon
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Our example will use the A-to-Z list
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Scroll down, or click a letter on the index
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Our full-text titles have a page icon beside the
title (such as Academic Medicine)
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Click on issue list for the issues and articles
from a journal
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An example of an issue list
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Table of contents for an issue
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Viewing the full text of an article

• Each article has a full text link on the right
  (ignore the Find it _at_MCG button)

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The full text in HTML
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Note options at the top of the screen

• email jumpstart lets you send an email message
  with a web link to this page
  
• You can also save or email the HTML version
• PDF version is also available (on right of screen)

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View of the PDF version of an article
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Searching for a journal title

• From the main search menu, click the Journal
  tab
  
• If you dont click this tab first, you will be
  performing a keyword search (in article and
  journal titles, abstracts, authors, etc.)

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Search for New England Journal
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Your search is matched to the title list click
by a title and then click Perform Search
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Click Display at the right for results
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List of articles in your result
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Be sure to Logoff when youre done
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Summary

• Use Journals_at_Ovid Full Text to browse issues
• For better subject searching, use Medline or
  CINAHL (these databases also have full text links
  to articles)
  
• Remember to click the Journal tab if you want to
  search for a journal title
  
• See the AHEC Full Text journal list at
  http//www.mcg.edu/ahec/jrnls.doc