Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 42 No. (1-2), 2010.
Stručni rad
The use of online biomedical information database (OVIDSP) at UHCO and FMO (2005-2008)
Ljiljana Pavičić
Jelka Petrak
Sažetak
The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the online biomedical databases available at the University Hospital Centre Osijek (UHCO) and Faculty of Medicine Osijek (FMO) on OvidSP platform and to report on their use.
Methods. The paper analyzes the usage statistics of biomedical databases (2005-2008) available to both institutions under the Croatian academic and biomedical consortium licence. Usage statistics was collected by publishers’ servers via IP addresses.
Results. In the 2005-2008 period, the online available biomedical databases (OvidSP) were searched 38.067 times by UHCO and 33.841 times by FMO staff. Medline was most frequently searched database, 16.834 times by UHCO and 16.148 by FMO. EBMR database had been accessed 10.582 times by UHCO and 4.809 times by FMO. The Current Contents database had been searched for 7.145 times (accessible only to FMO). There were 1.482 accesses to online books Books@Ovid, and 9.169 searches of full texts on Joumals@Ovid Full Text by UHCO staff, and 132 to online books Books@Ovid and 4.995 to full texts on Joumals@Ovid Full Text by FMO staff.
Conclusion. During the analysed period the users affiliated to the University Clinics and Departments of UHCO had searched the available online biomedical databases more than the users affiliated to FMO. The results show that the available databases had been used on a daily basis and that there is a continuous increase in their use.
Ključne riječi
Resource Guides; Databases, bibliographic - statistics & numerical data; Medline - statistics & numerical data; University Hospital Centre Osijek; Faculty of Medicine Osijek
Hrčak ID:
191881
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.12.2010.
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