AMED is one of the suite of databases provided by Ovid (others include Ovid Medline, Embase, Evidence-Based Practice Reviews and APA PsycInfo).
If you have already created an account on any of the other OVID databases it is not necessary to create a new account for AMED – you can log in using your existing Ovid account details.
Ovid displays a My Account link in the session bar. (Top right-hand corner of screen).
Click the Create Account link and Ovid opens the Create Personal Account page.
Follow the steps and answer the questions to create your own personal account -
Your password must contain between 6 and 20 characters (combination of numbers and letters) and is case-sensitive.
The email address is only used to reset your password when needed.
Once you have created a Personal Account, you have several ways to login from within your Ovid session:
1. My Account link (top right hand corner of screen).
2. My Workspace tab.
3. Save All button
4. View Saved All button.
Ovid opens the Personal Account Login Page. Enter the name and password of the account you want to access and Ovid takes you to the page for the selected feature. The My Account link takes you to the account administration page.
You can save a search history or individual searches for later use or further refinement. If you add annotations to your search history, they are saved too.
1. To save a single search, either select it and click the Save button, or click the More button and then select the Save option.
To save one or more selected searches, select the searches and then click the Save button.
To save the search history, click the Save All button.
2. Enter a name for the search and any comments.
3. Select an option from the Type dropdown list. i.e. Temporary, Permanent, autoAlert or My Projects.
4. Click the Save button.
You may view your Saved Searches and alerts by selecting:
When you select either of these options, the system will display all your saved searches and AutoAlerts.
Select the box of the search you want to run and click Run to run a saved search from the Saved Searches page.
REMEMBER:Ovid's save-search functionality preserves search strategies, but does not save a record of the databases that were selected when the search was originally executed. When you rerun a saved search, Ovid searches your currently selected databases, not the database(s) that were selected when the search was originally saved.
Whn saving your search use the Save All button:
Choose AutoAlert (SDI) from the search type pull-down menu.
Make selections from the AutoAlert options. Depending on your setup, if you want to include Literature Priority Score, you must select Email Options > As an Attachment, and Output Type > EXCEL or XML.
If you want to select XML as the Output Type, you must first select Email Options > As an Attachment.
Click the Save button.
Ovid's AutoAlerts lets you: