Ovid

Ovid (www.ovid.com) is an internationally recognized leader of electronic medical, scientific, and academic research information solutions. Ovid is focused on offering a unique combination of content, tools, and services to help make research smarter, faster and more effective. Healthcare professionals, researchers, librarians, and students use Ovid to help them explore a topic, fuel a discovery, or enhance patient care. Our solutions add value to the research discovery process through innovative delivery, functionality, and integration tools that help improve end-user productivity and efficiency.

Ovid is used by the world's leading colleges and universities; medical schools; academic research libraries and library consortia; hospitals and healthcare systems; pharmaceutical, engineering and biotechnology companies; HMOs and clinical practices. Ovid is an operating company of Wolters Kluwer Health, a division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading multinational publisher and information services company with annual sales (2004) of €3.3 billion and approximately 18,400 employees worldwide. Within the Wolters Kluwer Health division, Ovid and Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, an industry-leading publisher of medical and healthcare journals, represent a leading force in the development, production and delivery of print and electronic research information for medical and academic institutions, corporations, and medical societies.