Creating AutoAlerts and RSS Feeds in Ovid SP

In this tutorial, I show you how to save your searches as "AutoAlerts" or RSS feeds, so that you can be automatically notified of any new articles that match your search criteria.

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Saving Searches in Ovid SP

In this tutorial, I show you how to save your Ovid SP search strategy / search history to allow automatic re-runs of the search in the future. As I mentioned earlier, there is a difference between saving the search strategy and saving search results. If you want to learn how to save individual search results, please refer to the Ovid SP Search Result Display episode.

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Exporting Ovid SP Search Result to RefWorks

Again as the title says, this tutorial teaches how to export search result out of Ovid SP to RefWorks, a popular web-based citation management application.

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Exporting Ovid SP Search Result to EndNote

As the title says, this tutorial teaches how to export search result out of Ovid SP to EndNote, a popular desktop citation management application.

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Ovid SP Search Result Display

This tutorial gives an overview of the Ovid SP search result display, and teaches how to save, email, and print search results from Ovid SP. It also covers how to find article full text in Ovid SP using the Yale Links service.

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Combining and Limiting Searches in Ovid SP

This tutorial teaches how to combine and limit searches in Ovid SP to obtain more relevant results.

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Medical Subject Headings

The most efficient way to search MEDLINE in Ovid SP is to use the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). This tutorial explains what MeSH is, and how to use MeSH to run better searches in Ovid SP.

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