Himmelfarb Library offers Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed with integrated full-text links and print availability notes!

Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed both offer the ability to link to full-text articles from their databases and to determine which journals are available at Himmelfarb Library in print. In both cases, Himmelfarb Library has customized the database to reflect the full-text electronic journals and print journals in our collection. While neither Ovid MEDLINE or PubMed link to all of the full-text electronic journals that Himmelfarb carries, both offer increased access to full-text at the article level. Also, both services are indicative of the integrated electronic resources that we are working to provide.

Ovid MEDLINE

Ovid MEDLINE has been customized at Himmelfarb Library to reflect:

• Print journals. You can determine if Himmelfarb Library owns a journal title at a glance, or obtain more details through a catalog search.
  • "Himmelfarb Library holds title" in a citation indicates that Himmelfarb owns complete set of these titles.
  • "Himmelfarb Library has partial holdings" in a citation indicates that Himmelfarb has a partial set of these titles, and that we do own current issues.
  • "Library Holdings" links to Himmelfarb Library's Catalog and the Aladin WRLC/Gelman Library catalog to permit users to do a complete search for this title.
• Electronic journals. You can link to the electronic full-text of more than 250 titles via Ovid MEDLINE.
  • "Ovid Full-Text" will link you to the full-text of an article that is available within the Ovid system. Full-text articles are available in HTML format, and increasingly PDF. You may customize how graphics should be displayed (none, thumbnail, or full size).
  • "Full-Text" will link you to the full-text of an article on the publisher's website. A new window will open and the time remaining in your Ovid session will be displayed at the top; you may reset your Ovid timer to remain in your Ovid session or simply move into the article's window. This type of link is currently displayed when you search from on-campus locations only due to restrictions on access determined by individual publishers.

PubMed

When you access PubMed via the Himmefarb Library website's Database/MEDLINE page, you are connected to a version of PubMed that has been customized for Himmelfarb Library (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=dcgwulib). This customized version of PubMed reflects:

• Print journals. The 'GWU-Himmelfarb Library In Print' icon indicates articles that are in journals available at Himmelfarb Library. This icon signifies in itself that the print journal is available at Himmelfarb Library, and also links to additional information, including the Himmelfarb Library catalog, about the years/volumes available.

• Electronic journals. The ‘GWU-Himmelfarb Library Online’ icon indicates articles that are in journals available at Himmelfarb Library, and links directly to the full-text of the specific citation/abstract being viewed. The full-text of the article opens in a new window, and your PubMed search remains active so you may continue viewing and revising your search(es).

Because of limits to integrating full-text linking in Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed instituted by the publishers of medical journals, it is not currently possible to link to all of the full-text electronic journals provided by Himmelfarb Library. To facilitate your research process, we recommend opening an extra browser window to the Library’s E-Journals page ), so that you can quickly move between your Ovid MEDLINE or PubMed search and the list of e-journals to determine availability.