Ovid's Jumpstart functionality lets you create and email shortcuts to bypassing preliminary pages and target specific places within an Ovid session. With Ovid jumpstarts you may connect directly to:
Certain aspects of Ovid Jumpstarts are configured by site administrators, including:
Contact your site administrator to change any of these settings.
Embedding account access information poses a substantial security risk because user name and password information display clearly when creating the email jumpstart and within the jumpstart URL that gets distributed. To exclude this information, check the appropriate box from the Create Jumpstart page.
Separate multiple email addresses with commas, not spaces.
Incorrect addresses cause the system to discard results without notice!
Ovid emails the jumpstart and displays a confirmation page. Click the appropriate link to return to your Ovid session.
Click the Email Jumpstart icon from the Saved Searches Page of the search you want to share.
Ovid will open a jumpstart form. Follow these steps to email the jumpstart.
Jumpstarts to AutoAlerts differ from jumpstarts to other saved search types. Links generated from the Jumpstarts to AutoAlerts opens an Ovid session within the resource from which the Autoalert was created. In Jumpstarts to other saved search types, an Ovid session is opened from which the jumpstart was requested.
Click the Email Jumpstart icon from the Full Text Article Tools section of a specific journal.
Ovid opens a jumpstart form within the browser window.
Type in the recipient of jumpstart and click Send.
When clicking the About this journal link from the Full Text display, you can click the Email Jumpstart link to email a jumpstart to journal information.
Click the Email Jumpstart icon from the Table of Contents display.
Ovid opens a jumpstart form within the browser window. Type the email address that you want to send the jumpstart to, and click Send.
To get the complete URL of the jumpstart link, click on the Copy Jumpstart URL button.
Click the Email Jumpstart icon beside the displayed image.
Ovid opens a jumpstart form. Follow these steps to email the jumpstart.
Click the Email Link icon from the book Full Text display.
Ovid opens a jumpstart form. Follow these steps to email the jumpstart.
Click the Email Link icon from either a book title list or book subject list display.
Ovid opens a jumpstart form. Follow these steps to email the jumpstart.
Click the Email Jumpstart icon next to the media player.
Ovid opens a jumpstart form. Follow these steps to email the jumpstart.
You can use the Jumpstart utility to create a Jumpstart URL for your homepage. It will take the user to the Table of Contents of a particular book or journal.
Ovid administrators and librarians can use the Jumpstart administration tool to add Jumpstart links to their library web pages for easy access to various resources within Ovid.
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