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MEDLINE/Ovid database

General:

MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Abstracts are included for about 52% of the records. Ovid Technologies, Inc. provides an easy-to-use interface to search this and other databases, and also allows Allina Library Services to show a local message for those citations from journals it owns in print. Links to fulltext articles provided by Ovid or a publisher are also made available.

Access

Access is available from the Allina Library Services web page (www.allina.com/library).  If you are on a computer on the Allina network, you may access without a password. Remote access is available for all Allina or Children's Hospitals & Clinics affiliated medical staff, nurses, and other health professionals by completing a remote access registration form.

Tutorials & Quick Guides

• Ovid Gateway Tutorial
• MEDLINE/Ovid Field guide (from www.ovid.com)
• Quick Reference Guide: Basic
• Quick Reference Guide: Advanced

Classes On-Call

• Request a workshop to learn how to use MEDLINE/Ovid to locate clinical medicine journal articles.
• Call 612-863-4312 or e-mail us

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