OVID LinkSolver Demo

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OVID LinkSolver Demo
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• Currently LinkSolver is added to the ADL
  Individual Packages
• The following Screens will compare Ovid searches
  with LinkSolver to those same searches in an Ovid
  without LinkSolver

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Search Medline 1966-Present

• Health Education and
• Smoking Cessation

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Ovid Search WITH LinkSolver
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Ovid Search WITH LinkSolver
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Ovid Search WITH LinkSolver
Note Link to Document Delivery
Note Link to Fulltext
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Ovid Search WITH LinkSolver
Clicking on the Document Delivery Link will take
you to UNC Chapel Hill Request a Copy. These
links have only been inserted for UNC Chapel Hill
journals.
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Ovid Search WITH LinkSolver
Same search This time limited to Full Text only.
Note 32 Full-Text articles
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Ovid Search WITH LinkSolver
Click on the Full-Text link
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Ovid Search WITH LinkSolver
Clicking on that full-text link takes you
directly to the article in Ebscos Heath Business
Collection.
Note The Ovid window stays active in the
background
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Ovid Search WITH LinkSolver
From within Ovid you can open the article while
retaining the active Ovid session in the
background.
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OVID Search with NO LinkSolver
Note Same Exact Search Result as the Ovid WITH
LinkSolver
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OVID Search with NO LinkSolver
Same results page except without LinkSolver there
is NO Document Delivery Link and No Fulltext Link
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OVID Search with NO LinkSolver
Same search This time limited to Full Text only.

Note Only 22 Full-text articles
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OVID Search with NO LinkSolver
Note The Full Text here is only Ovid Full Text
or access to EBM reviews. There is no access to
Ebsco or other full text links.
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Note Key Differences

• Ovid with LinkSolver Backend
• 32 Fulltext articles
• Ovid with NO LinkSolver Backend
• 22 Fulltext articles
• Ovid with LinkSolver Backend
• Pulls up our Ebsco Health Business fulltext
  PubMed Central journals, free HighWire Press
  Journals, as well as our Ovid Journals
• Ovid with LinkSolver Backend has document
  delivery links for selected high impact, highly
  cited UNC Chapel Hill held journals

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Summary

• LinkSolver is a Backend product all searching is
  done through our existing Ovid search engines
• Transparent to the end user
• The end user no longer needs to go to every
  separate database to find fulltext articles