• Search results cover the entire Journals@Ovid database. You receive unlimited access to every title in the database for bibliographic citations, references, abstracts and the tables of contents. Your access to bibliographic content is only limited by number of Ovid licenses.
• Your institution subscribes to a full text journal or journals from the Journals@Ovid database and purchases a license for an appropriate number of concurrent users for each full text journal.
• You receive customized access to full text based on subscriptions and licenses.
• If you want to limit your search to full text articles while within Journals@Ovid, use the Full Text limit described under Limits.
• Paygo users can access the full text of all journals.
• Selected journals include access to critical content before it appears in a printed journal issue as part of the Publish Ahead of Print feature.

Ovid Full Text Collections have always included items such as research articles, book and other media reviews, editorials, and letters to the editor. With Journals@Ovid we have included classified advertising, announcements, abstracts of symposia, calendars, and corrections. You easily can find these citations by searching on one of the new Publication Types on the Limit page: advertisements, announcements, meeting abstract, and corrections. The content is licensed by the publisher, and therefore varies somewhat from journal to journal.

Journals@Ovid is updated daily to ensure access to the most recently published issues. Journals@Ovid offers coverage from 1996 to the present for many journals, and the coverage of some journals dates back as far as 1993. A few journals begin at other points. Refer to the Ovid HomePage for a complete listing of journals and start date, or find individual journal start dates in "About this Journal".

NOTE: This guide is universally intended for all Journals@Ovid subsets such as APA PsycArticles® and YourJournals@Ovid. This includes the following segments: OVFT, YROVFT and PAOVFT (subscribers only).

Ovid’s PAP Full Text provide users with online access to critical content as soon as the material is ready for release and before it appears in a printed journal issue. All Journals@Ovid PAP Full Text has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication.

A special PAP issue displays at the top of the issue list for participating journals. Users click the Table of Contents link for the PAP issue, review entries in the TOC display, and access PAP Full Text available for that journal. When PAP Full Text becomes available in print, Ovid removes the record from the PAP issue.

Publish Ahead of Print is only available for select journals.

Articles in any pre-publication stage can change significantly before final publication. Because Ovid’s PAP articles present data that is in-process toward final publication, their statements, opinions, and information may contain errors in facts, figures, or interpretation. With this in mind, apply responsibly any information gained from Journals@Ovid PAP articles. Accordingly, the publisher, editors, authors of PAP articles, and their respective employees accept no liability for consequences of any inaccurate or misleading data, opinion, or statement.

Ovid provides an outline for every article, so you can move from section to section with the click of a mouse. Hypertext links within each article-structured abstract links, reference links, context links, and figure links allow you to jump immediately to the relevant section or graphic.

Citations within the document text are linked to the Reference section, enabling you to quickly check a reference. A context link in each reference allows you to easily move back to your original place in the document.

From any full text article, you can link to journal information in About This Journal or to the issue's table of contents.

Link from bibliographic databases to full text: Start your search in a powerful bibliographic database, like MEDLINE, APA PsycInfo®, or CINAHL, and link seamlessly to full text articles.

Link from full text to full text: References in an article link to other full text articles so you can follow an author's research, trace the history of a topic, or find similar information.

Link from full text to bibliographic databases: References in full text articles link to bibliographic citations in databases such as MEDLINE, CINAHL, and APA PsycInfo®.

The Abstract (AB) field summarizes the content of the document and generally describes the background, methods, results, and conclusions. Both English and foreign language abstracts are searchable using AB. Only documents which appeared in print with an abstract include an abstract in this database.

Stopwords such as "of" or "the" display in documents but are not searchable and do not appear in the Abstract index.

All Fields (AF) is an alias for all of the fields which occur in the source documents, including value-added fields such as Subject Headings.  The only thing excluded from an All Fields search are fields such as "floating subheading" or "heading word" which are created by the loading process and do not actually appear in the record.

The Accession Number (AN) field contains a 22-digit number which uniquely identifies each document in the database.

While searching this field, include all leading zeros and internal hyphens.

The Accession Number is not related to the 8-digit MEDLINE Unique Identifier.

The Author (AU) field includes the names of all authors of a document, in the order in which they appear in the journal.

Author names appear in the format of last name followed by first and middle names, or last name followed by up to two initials.

The Corporate Author Word (CW) field contains each word from the name of the organization that has produced the document.  This field usually displays as part of Author (AU) field.

The DOI (DI) field contains the Digital Object Identifier - a unique and persistent digital identification code for any object of intellectual property.
The DOI itself consists of two parts: a prefix which is assigned to each publisher by the administrative DOI agency, e.g., "10.1097", and a suffix which is assigned by the publisher
and can be any code that the publisher chooses, e.g., "00045415-200111000-00002". The full DOI appears as such: "10.1097/00045415-200111000-00002".

The Document Type (DT) field supplements the Publication Type (PT) field by providing an additional, more specific description of a document's form and substance. This field often contains the titles of columns or regular features that are specific to a given journal publication.

Enter the first few letters of the desired document type, or root on the letter "a" to view and select from the complete list of document types and words that appear as part of document types.

The Issue/Part (IP) field includes the issue and supplement number in which the document was published. This field displays as part of the Source field (SO).

The ISSN (IS) field contains the International Standard Serial Number for the journal in which the document was published.

The Journal Abbreviation (JA) field contains the abbreviation of the source journal title.

The NLM Journal Code (JC) field contains an alphanumeric code established by the NLM (National Library of Medicine) which uniquely identifies each journal indexed in NLM databases.

The Journal Name (JN) field contains the full name of the journal in which the article was published.

Stopwords such as "of" are included in the JN index, but when "the" is the first word of a journal, it has been stripped.

The word "and", which is a Boolean operator and a stopword in most fields, can be searched in the Journal Name field using the ampersand (&).

The Subject Category (JS) field describes basic subject areas covered by the journal.  These Subject Categories correspond to the subjects which appear in the Browse Contents by Subject feature.  Results of a subject category search will be a list of journal issues, which when  selected, will take you to the table-of-contents for that journal.

This field is a Table of Contents field.

The Journal Word (JW) field contains individual words from every journal name in the database.

This field is used to retrieve every occurrence of a journal which includes a particular word such as "dermatology."

The Author Keywords (KW) field contains author assigned terms that describe the document. This field exists only for documents where the author has assigned keywords.

The Other Title (OT) field contains non-English titles in the original published language. If an English version of the title exists, it will index in the Title (TI) field.

The Pages (PG) field contains the starting page number in the printed journal in which the document was published. The field displays as part of the Source field (SO).

Often, a search using the publication year and the beginning page number is enough to locate a particular citation.

The Publication Type (PT) field describes a document's overall form and substance in broad categories. These publication types are assigned by Ovid Technologies in order to unify the differing document types used by various journal publishers.

The Reference (RF) field includes complete bibliographic citations for the publications cited by authors in full text documents. These references can be viewed along with the citation or with full text.

Enter the desired reference information, consisting of words typically found in a reference. Consider searching on words in document title, journal name or abbreviation, author name, page number, or year.

Each journal title in Journals@Ovid is classified in at least one of five Journal Subsets (SB).  The five subsets are: Behavioral & Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Nursing, and Physical Science & Engineering.

Searching the Journal Subset field brings up all articles within each journal in the subset.

The Summary Language (SL) field contains the language or languages in which the abstract is written.

The Source (SO) field includes the basic information needed to locate a source document, including the journal name, volume, issue/part, pagination, and year of publication.

The Title (TI) field contains the English language version of the title as it appears in the journal.

Stopwords such as "of" or "the" display in documents but do not appear in the title index. However, the word "a", which is a stopword in other fields, can be searched in the title field.

The Contents by Journal Name (TJ) displays each issue of a certain journal in the database. The TJ field differs from the Journal Name (JN) field in that the Contents by Journal Name field brings up entire issues of a journal. The Journal Name field retrieves the individual articles from those issues.

This field is a Table of Contents field.

The Text Word (TW) field searches the Title (TI), Abstract (AB), Caption Text (CT), as well as the Full Text (TX) fields.

The Full Text (TX) field contains the complete document text. This field allows you to retrieve all documents with any mention of your search term. Because authors are more likely to use synonyms in the text field, or often include relevant information on a topic that is secondary to the main topic of the paper, you will find much more complete results by using the full text instead of just the title and abstract.

Note: TX searches only the full text part of the article, and only the parts of the full text that are not included in other fields. All bibliographic information, such as title and author, abstract, references, and caption text are all indexed in other fields. Therefore, they are not searchable in the TX field.

Stopwords, which include commonly occurring words such as "of" and "the" display in the documents but do not appear in the Full Text index.

The Update Code (UP) field contains a 8-digit number representing the year in which documents were published in this database, in YYYY0000 format.

The Volume (VO) field contains the volume of the printed journal in which the document was published. This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Year of Publication (YR) field contains the year in which the printed journal containing the document was published. This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.