Access to Ovid

A Tufts username and password (Tufts community) or Library Login ID (Tufts Medical Center staff who are not clinical faculty) is required for access. To register for a Tufts username see: Tufts Username (UTLN), Email & Other Accounts web page. To register for an access number, call the Library Service Desk: 6-6705.

Ovid is a powerful web-based commercial software developed to search bibliographic and full-text databases. Once familiar with the basic features of the interface, searching skills can be applied to the many databases offered through Ovid. Ovid MEDLINE offers users the following options: saving searches, ability to limit results to locally owned titles, links to full-text articles, links to Evidence Based Medicine Reviews, and much more.

Tufts subscribes to the following databases via Ovid: AARP Ageline, ACP Journal Club, CAB Abstracts, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, DARE, HealthSTAR, MEDLINE, PsychINFO, and Books@Ovid which are described in detail in Ovid's User Guides.

• Assistance is available at the Library Service Desk; by phone: 617.636.6705; fax: 617.636.4039; or email at hhsl@tufts.edu.
• How to Find Journal Articles via Ovid MEDLINE
• How to Order Articles in Ovid Databases
  To use the Ovid "Document Delivery" feature, you must be registered with ILLiad, our new ordering system. If you have not registered, please register now.
• Managing Ovid Output
• Training and Help from Ovid Technologies

• AARP AgeLine
  Literature related to aging & middle age.
• Books@Ovid
  Complete text of selected medical sources in an interlinked and graphical interface.
• CAB Abstracts
  Literature in agriculture, nutrition, animal health & natural resources.
• Clinical Evidence
  C ompendium of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions.
• EBM Reviews - ACP Journal Club
  Commentaries on studies from top clinical journals.
• EBM Reviews Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
  Database of definitive controlled trials identified by the contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration.
• EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  Reviews of the effects of healthcare & protocols of reviews in progress.
• EBM Reviews - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
  Structured abstracts of systematic reviews.
• Global Health
  Public health literature.
  
• MEDLINE
  Biomedical journal literature.
• Ovid HealthStar
  Journal and report literature on health administration, policy and technology.