Ovid Tutorial 2.0
University of South Alabama Biomedical Libraries 

Reviewed and revised as of January 18, 2000

This 40 minute, interactive Ovid Tutorial is designed to show you step-by-step the basic components of a MEDLINE database search using the Ovid Web Gateway.

  1. Instructions for using this Tutorial
  2. Formulating your question
  3. Developing your search strategy
  4. Viewing the Results
  5. Printing, e-mailing, and saving documents (Citation Manager)
  6. Viewing and printing Full Text (Full Text Manager)
  7. Other ways to Search in MEDLINE:
  8. Explaining the Icons
  9. Evaluating this Tutorial
This tutorial was created by the staff at the Medical Center Library at Duke University. Permission has been granted by Ovid Technologies, Inc. to use webpages, screen shots, and icons from the Ovid Web Gateway.  It has been modified, with permission, for the USA Biomedical Libraries.


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Last Update:     2/14/02