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Trial access to Ovid Emcare – extended until 31st December 2016.

By Sarah Gilmore, on 9 December 2016

UCL’s  trial access to Ovid Emcare has been extended until 31st December 2016. To access off-site please use Desktop@UCL Anywhere

Ovid Emcare is a nursing database that provides:

  • 3,700+ international journals indexed – more than any other nursing database – More scholarly, peer-reviewed and indexed journals than any other nursing database
  • 1,800+ titles not available on other leading nursing databases
  • Nearly 5 million records dating back to 1995
  • Up to 250,000 records/citations added each year
  • Broadest scope of international content—more than any other nursing database: 50% of journals are from North America, 40% are from Europe; 10% are from Rest of World. 9% of all records are for articles not in English, most have English-language abstracts.
  • 70% of records have online abstracts
  • More than 70,000 preferred terms in EMTREE, expanded with nursing and allied health terms. All mapped to MEDLINE’s MeSH.

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