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Update: Ovid shared an announcement about upcoming changes to the Open Access panel discussed in this posted. "We're pleased to announce a release to the new Ovid UI on 24 May 2023 at 6 AM EDT (view your local time). In this release we're removing the orange Open Access panel that appears on the right side of Basic Search and making updates to the display of error messages. The decision to remove the Open Access panel is the result of years of very low usage. We found that our users perceive this panel as if it were an advert because it displays on the page as adverts do on other websites. Through Links@Ovid and Ovid LinkSolver, we continue to link users to available Open Access Electronic Full Text articles ." ------------------------------------------------------------ This post was inspired by a January 2021 thread on the expertsearching email list from Roxanne Isard BA, BEd, MLIS, Teaching and Learning Librarian (Western University). Ovid MEDLINE provides a uniq...

This tip was submitted by Carrie Price (Towson University) Do you want to test your search for key article inclusion? Perhaps the review team supplied you with a list of key articles during the reference interview. Or, maybe you did some searching together and identified relevant articles. Typically, these key articles are articles that should appear in the search, and can be a useful building block for term harvesting.  Once the key articles have been identified, grab the PubMed ID number (PMID) from the item record and paste them into a document. For an example, I'll use a set of articles on pulmonary rehabilitation in cystic fibrosis patients. I've chosen five. Give each PMID a field tag of [uid], "unique identifier." 33618051 [uid] OR 30827470 [uid] OR 29045949 [uid] OR 27320420 [uid] OR 26522923 [uid] Run them to make sure you get the correct results. It's really easy to miss part of a PMID! Now, keep this key article set in your search documentation while...