A Review of OvidSP as An E-Books Delivery Platform

Abstract

Books@Ovid is a database of full-text access to high-quality textbooks, manuals, and handbooks. These resources are largely practical in nature and cover a large variety of subjects in health professions including medicine, nursing, dentistry, chiropractic, and allied health fields. Topics of materials can include skills, pharmacology, anatomy, and patient education. Institutions that subscribe to Books@Ovid are able to use it via the OvidSP search platform, which allows for searching across databases provided by Ovid Technologies, Inc. Searching and browsing options as well as their implications for users will be explored in this review.

KEYWORDS:

• databases
• electronic books
• electronic publishing
• health sciences
• Ovid
• product review