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Lister Hill Letter
Newsletter of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at UAB

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March/April 1997

Database Spotlight
OVID Biomedical Collections


Lister Hill Library has added the OVID FULL-TEXT Biomedical Collections. Ovid Full Text currently includes three collections: The Ovid Biomedical Collections I, II and III. Every word of the text is searchable, including references and graphics captions. Within the Full Text display, hypertext features allow users to display an outline of the document and move immediately to a selected section, to display complete references cited within the text of a document, and to link directly to MEDLINE and other full text documents. The Ovid Web Gateway interface includes all graphics, tables, and photographs as they appear in print.
OVID Windows client users must re-run the OVID Setup program to see the new databases. OVID WEB and VT-100 users will see this automatically.

The Ovid Biomedical Collection I includes full-text from 1993 to present from:

  • The American Journal of Medicine
  • The American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • The American Journal of Surgery
  • The Annals of Internal Medicine
  • The Archives of General Psychiatry
  • BMJ: The British Medical Journal
  • The Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Circulation
  • JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
  • The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Volume)
  • The Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • The Lancet
  • The New England Journal of Medicine
  • Pediatrics
  • Science


The Ovid Biomedical Collection II includes full-text from 1995-present from:

  • The American Journal of Cardiology
  • The American Journal of Psychiatry
  • The Archives of Internal Medicine
  • The Archives of Neurology
  • The Archives of Surgery
  • Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
  • The British Journal of Surgery
  • Circulation Research
  • Fertility and Sterility
  • Gut
  • The Journal of Pediatrics
  • Mayo Clinic Proceedings
  • Medicine
  • QJM
  • Thorax


The Ovid Biomedical Collection III includes:

  • American Journal of Public Health
  • Anesthesiology
  • Archives of Dermatology
  • Archives of Ophthalmology
  • British Heart Journal - followed by Heart
  • British Journal of Haematology
  • Chest
  • Diabetes
  • Heart (continues British Heart Journal)
  • Hypertension
  • Journal of Clinical Pathology (with Clinical Molecular Pathology Edition)
  • Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Journal of Urology
  • Nature
  • Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey
  • Stroke


Please note that this is a newsletter.
The information and links in individual articles are current as of the date of publication, but they are not kept up-to-date thereafter.

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