Ovid Technologies
Encyclopedia
Ovid Technologies, Inc. part of the Wolters Kluwer
group of companies, provides access to online bibliographic database
s, journals
and other products, chiefly in the area of health sciences. The National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE
database was once its chief product but now that this is freely available through PubMed
, Ovid has diversified into a wide range of other databases and other products. Ovid has its global headquarters in New York City
.
Ovid was founded by Mark Nelson who developed his first interface to MEDLINE in 1984. He formed the company in New York in 1988 and called it Online Research Systems. The company's first Microsoft Windows
interface to MEDLINE was named Ovid and released in 1992. In 1994 the company changed its name to CD Plus, took over BRS Online
and shortly after listed on NASDAQ
. It then changed to its present name in 1995, reflecting the importance of its Ovid product. Wolters Kluwer took the company over in 1998. In 2001 Wolters Kluwer purchased the rival SilverPlatter
company and merged it into Ovid during 2001 and early 2002.
Ovid introduced a new database search interface called OvidSP in 2007. This has replaced the Ovid Gateway interface, which was retired in February 2008, and the SilverPlatter interface, which was retired in January 2009.
Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer N.V. is a global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory sectors...
group of companies, provides access to online bibliographic database
Bibliographic database
A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, patents, books, etc...
s, journals
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
and other products, chiefly in the area of health sciences. The National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE
MEDLINE
MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care...
database was once its chief product but now that this is freely available through PubMed
PubMed
PubMed is a free database accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez information retrieval system...
, Ovid has diversified into a wide range of other databases and other products. Ovid has its global headquarters in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
Ovid was founded by Mark Nelson who developed his first interface to MEDLINE in 1984. He formed the company in New York in 1988 and called it Online Research Systems. The company's first Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
interface to MEDLINE was named Ovid and released in 1992. In 1994 the company changed its name to CD Plus, took over BRS Online
BRS/Search
BRS/Search is a full-text database and information retrieval system. BRS/Search uses a fully inverted indexing system to store, locate, and retrieve unstructured data...
and shortly after listed on NASDAQ
NASDAQ
The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...
. It then changed to its present name in 1995, reflecting the importance of its Ovid product. Wolters Kluwer took the company over in 1998. In 2001 Wolters Kluwer purchased the rival SilverPlatter
SilverPlatter
SilverPlatter Information, Inc. was one of the first companies to produce commercial reference databases on CD-ROMs. It was founded in 1983 in the United Kingdom by Bela Hatvany and Walt Winshall with the explicit intention of using CD technology to publish data...
company and merged it into Ovid during 2001 and early 2002.
Ovid introduced a new database search interface called OvidSP in 2007. This has replaced the Ovid Gateway interface, which was retired in February 2008, and the SilverPlatter interface, which was retired in January 2009.
External links
- Ovid website
- OvidSP page at Ovid website
- Wolters Kluwer Health - OvidSP — a review of OvidSP by Davey Winder in Information World Review