Ovid and OvidWeb Commands

Functions	Ovid -- text	OvidWeb
Subject Search Maps a word or phrase to a Medical Subject Heading.	Enter a single word or phrase on the command line, press <Enter>, and follow prompts for selecting subject headings and sub-headings.
Search for Authors Search by last name and initials. Example: piper d$	Control-U
Search for Text Word Won't find synonyms. $ is the wildcard. Example: smok$	Control-R	Unselect "Map Term" for title, abstract and subject words To search for words in the title only
Search for Journal Titles Type the first word or two of the journal. Example: american heart	Control-J
Search in any index field Each part of a reference is a field -- author, title, journal name, abstract, ....	Control-A, then I	Especially useful for institution or multiple field searching.
Limit Set Restrict selected search results by a limit factor, such as human, English or other choices.	Control-G	To select from the complete list of limits Or else, select from the list of common limits :
Change Database Run the search in another database.	Control-D	Select from MEDLINE, CINAHL, IPA and many others
View Set See the list of references for one of the searches.	Control-K	Click on Display
Combine Sets May type a command line. Example: 1 and 2	Control-N	Use AND to reduce the number of references to those with both terms. Use OR to increase the number of references to those with any one of the terms.
Help To view the Ovid or OvidWeb documentation.	Control-Y
Switch between search modes Select either basic and advanced searching.	Control-O, then E
Citation Manager To print, save to disk, or email search results.
Display / Print Print the results of a search.	Control-P	In Citation Manager, select Citations, Fields, and Format, then from Action, click on Display. Click on the Netscape print button to send the output to the printer.
Email Send the results to an email address -- your own or a colleagues.	Control-B	In Citation Manager, select Citations, Fields, and Format, then from Action, click on Email. Fill in the Email form. Email citations to: = where the results will be emailed. All other lines may be ignored.
Save Save results to disk.	Control-B	In Citation Manager, select Citations, Fields, and Format, then from Action, click on Save. Use the Save As dialog box to select which drive and what filename to give the results.
Exit / Logoff Leave the system and clear your account.	Control-X

To start searching, select the text or graphical interface
Ovid -- text interface	OvidWeb -- graphical interface
telnet ovid.com	http://gateway.ovid.com