The largest and most comprehensive biomedical database in America.
Ovid is a subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer Group.
MEDLINE used to be its main product, and now it can be accessed through PubMed.
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As a part of Wolters Kluwer Company Group, Ovid Technologies, Inc. (or Ovid for short) provides access to online bibliographic databases, periodicals and other products, mainly in the field of health science. The MEDLINE database of the National Library of Medicine was once its main product, but now it can be obtained free of charge through PubMed, and Ovid has been extended to other databases and other products. Ovid's global headquarters is located in new york City.
Ovid was founded by Mark Nelson who developed his first MEDLINE interface in 1984. He founded this company in new york on 1988[2] and called it an online research system. The company's first Microsoft Windows interface MEDLINE was named Ovid and released in 1992. [2] In 1994, the company changed its name to CD Plus, [4] took over BRS Online, and soon listed on NASDAQ. Later, it was renamed to its current name at 1995, reflecting the importance of its Ovid products. Wolters Kluwer took over the company at 1998. 200 1 Wolters Kluwer acquired competitor Si lverPlatter in 200 1 and early 2002 and merged it into Ovid.
Ovid launched a new database search interface named OvidSP in 2007. It replaced the Ovid gateway interface retired in February 2008 and the SilverPlatter interface retired in February 2009.