title: Books@Ovid: a product review.
abstract: Books@Ovid is a full-text database of clinical textbooks published by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, and McGraw-Hill. It is distributed by Ovid Technologies. In addition to discussing the search environment for Books@Ovid, this paper discusses its online help, indexes, and content, in terms of both coverage and updates. How this product competes with its counterparts in print is also treated in the discussion.
authors.affiliation: University of Southern California, Norris Medical Library, 2003 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. russells@usc.edu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D012014:Reference Books, Medical; D014481:United States