Ovid MEDLINE

Click Limits to quickly limit your search retrieval to articles in English, published within specific years, etc. Quick limits are available on the main search page while additional limits can also be selected. 

On the "Additional Limits" screen, clicking the information icon beside each limit will explain what that limit does.

There are several options available for displaying references within Ovid.

• To view the abstract for a specific reference, click on View Abstract at the bottom of the reference.
• To view abstracts for every reference in your results list, select Abstract at the top of your result set.
• Use the pull-down menu on the upper right side of the screen to change the number of results displayed.
• Click on Complete Reference to see the entire record, including MeSH terms (this will not show the full text of the article).
• Where Full Text links are available, you can display and print full articles.
• Click on Library Holdings to search NUcat to determine whether the library owns a journal in print or electronically.
• Clicking Find it @ NU will open a new page where you can find out whether the full text article is available online, search NUcat for the journal, or order the article through interlibrary loan.
• Click Add to My Projects to save your citations to a personal workspace within Ovid. An Ovid personal account is required for this feature.
• Find Similar retrieves citations that contain related words and synonyms in their titles.
• Find Citing Articles retrieves citations that have cited the chosen article within the Journals@Ovid collection. Note: For a more thorough citation analysis, try a cited reference search in Web of Science/Web of Knowledge.
• Click Next to see subsequent records in your list.

It is advisable to use the navigation buttons within Ovid to move between pages. Using the back button of your browser may result in expired pages and you will lose your work!