{"id":665,"date":"2013-11-04T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/?p=665"},"modified":"2013-11-04T16:34:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T16:34:31","slug":"nursing-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/library\/2013\/11\/04\/nursing-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, we’re spotlighting the medical resource, OvidSP<\/a><\/strong>\u2014a full-text database containing over 67 journals in the field of Nursing, Public Health, Pharmacology, Patient Education, Clinical Medicine, and more.<\/p>\n

You can find OvidSP though our Library homepage, under Research–>Tech Databases. \u00a0Scroll down to find it in our alphabetical list of database titles.<\/p>\n

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\"OvidSP4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What makes OvidSP different from of the other databases is its ability to retrieve multimedia files, including video, charts, and photographs, to help give life, movement, and color your research results.\u00a0 Imagine preparing presentation for your topic, and having access to charts and images to include in your slides?\u00a0 Just search a topic and check the box for \u201cInclude Multimedia.\u201d\u00a0 If the full-text articles include pictures, OvidSP gives you the option of exporting all images into a PowerPoint file.<\/p>\n

OvidSP is also able to manage your citations by allowing you to export in your preferred style\u2014such as Chicago, APA, MLA, and many others\u2014into your email, a word document, or other citation management systems. \u00a0Send articles to yourself via email or\u00a0create a personal login to save your searches and search results.<\/p>\n

You can also limit search results by publication year, article type, journal subjects, and relevancy (also known as \u201cstar ranking).\u00a0 Avoid the information overload and try limiting to results published just in the last year or just within one or more sets of journals.<\/p>\n

Having trouble with too little information? \u00a0Change the resource selection in Ovid SP to include the Abstracts and Table of Contents for Ovid Journals as well as the Arkansas Tech Full Text resource.<\/p>\n

\"Displays<\/a><\/p>\n

This will broaden your search to include the abstracts and table of contents of hundreds of other journals. \u00a0However, you may have to use Inter-Library Loan or search for journal titles in our A-to-Z electronic journal list<\/a><\/strong> to retrieve full text of the articles.<\/p>\n

For more information about OvidSP, view this quick tutorial available on Youtube:<\/p>\n