Ovid Hints:
Finding the Journal of your Dreams
Finding journal titles in Ovid is simple; you just enter the name of the journal in the search field and click on the journal icon or use the journal field qualifier (.jn.)
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.jn.
Presto, an alphabetic list of journal titles appears with the one you are searching for already checked off for you. All you have to do is click on the continue button and Ovid presents you with a list of indexed article citations from the journal you are looking for. You can then limit your search further by year, author, title word, etc.
What if, however, you are unsure of the title of the journal you need. Say you only have an abbreviation, or you got the name by word of mouth and the information may not be quite correct. Things get a little more complicated then, but have no fear; with just a little help you can find those journals as well. Ovid lists journals by their FULL titles. So you have to figure out those pesky abbreviations and simply use the truncation symbol to search for your journal. Ovid uses the $ symbol for unlimited truncation. So, to search for Gastrointest Endosc you would type in,
Gastrointest$.jn.
or
Gastrointestinal Endosc$.jn.
Either of those two examples will put you in an alphabetic list from which to choose the title you want.
Good luck and happy hunting!
-- Jennifer Kelly
jkelly1@lsuhsc.edu link removed