Ovid Announces the Release of OvidSP, Its New Precision Search and Discovery Platform

NEW YORK, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, and a global leader in the development and delivery of customizable electronic research information for the medical, healthcare and academic markets, announced today the release of OvidSP, its new electronic information search platform.

OvidSP is the next step in the evolution of Ovid's two highly regarded existing platforms, Ovid Web Gateway and SilverPlatter WEBSPIRS, and is designed to make searching high-quality scholarly and professional content faster, simpler, and more efficient for all users, from novice searchers to expert power users. All Ovid customers will be able to access the new platform beginning October 25, 2007.

"We're very excited to deliver OvidSP. We've combined the best of Ovid's trusted precision search technology with a new, easy-to-use search interface and new functionality to meet the needs of all of our users, whether they are occasional or novice users, or expert searchers," said Karen Abramson, President and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research. "We're equally excited to showcase OvidSP to our publishing partners, whose high-quality scholarly content is now more accessible to Ovid's global user base. This is just the beginning, we will continue to evolve OvidSP and deliver the tools and products that meet ongoing end user and market demands."

OvidSP streamlines the search and discovery process with a simple, intuitive interface, powerful precision search technology, and time-saving user workflow tools. It enables users at all levels of research in Ovid's core customer markets -- medical, academic, and corporate -- to search high-quality scholarly and scientific content from the world's leading publishers, and find the relevant information they need to do their work, whether that information comes from a peer-reviewed journal, medical textbook, bibliographic database, or all three.

OvidSP incorporates the advanced precision search technology of Ovid Web Gateway and SilverPlatter WEBSPIRS, to meet the ongoing needs of expert, power users who prefer working with command line syntax searching. But OvidSP also includes new functionality that speaks to beginners or occasional searchers, as well as new workflow tools and features that help all types of users save valuable research time:

    -- Multiple search modes -- Users can choose their preferred search style,
       from Basic Search, which supports natural language searching, to Ovid
       or SilverPlatter Syntax, which supports command line syntax searching.
    -- Natural language searching -- Available in Basic Search, natural
       language processing allows users to enter everyday language (free text)
       into the search field, and returns precise results ranked by relevancy.
    -- Fresh, intuitive interface design -- The updated, contemporary look-
       and-feel displays new features and tools in prominent, easily
       identifiable locations on the screen.
    -- Simultaneous searching across all content types -- Users can quickly
       and easily search books, databases, and journals at the same time.
    -- Quick, easy search refinement -- Ovid SearchAid provides greater search
       transparency and allows users to narrow or broaden initial searches.
    -- Improved search results display -- New results management tools include
       inline citation abstracts, annotations, and electronic tables of
       contents (eTOCS) delivered via RSS feed. Plus, users can sort and
       re-sort results by numerous fields.

To request a demo and learn more about OvidSP, please contact pressinfo@ovid.com.

About Ovid

Ovid is a global information solutions provider offering clinicians, professionals, students, and researchers in the medical, scientific, and academic fields customizable solutions of content, tools, and services that make research smarter, faster, and more effective. 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; and HMOs and clinical practices.

Ovid is a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a division of Wolters Kluwer. For more information, go to ovid.com.

About Wolters Kluwer Health

Wolters Kluwer Health (Conshohocken, PA), a division of Wolters Kluwer, is a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. Major brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Facts & Comparisons; electronic information providers, such as Ovid, Medi-Span and ProVation Medical; and pharmaceutical information providers such as Adis International and Source(R). For more information, visit wkhealth.com.

Wolters Kluwer is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory sectors. Wolters Kluwer has 2006 annual revenues of euro 3.4 billion (US $4.3 billion), employs approximately 18,450 people worldwide and maintains operations across Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its shares are quoted on the Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. For more information, visit WoltersKluwer.com.