Wolters Kluwer Health
Medical Research
Presented By:
Connie Munsters
April 2013
Agenda
• WKH-MR capabilities and offerings
• Partnership Objectives
• Partnership Structure
• Conversation and Questions
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Wolters Kluwer Health | Ovid / LWW
• Wolters Kluwer:
– Leading global information services and publishing company
– Approximately 19,000 employees
– Markets: Health, Corporate Services, Finance, Tax, Accounting,
Law and Regulation
• Wolters Kluwer Health consists of 3 business units
– Clinical Solutions i.e. UptoDate
– Professional and Education i.e. LWW textbooks
– Medical Research: Ovid and Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
(LWW)
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Medical Research: Ovid and LWW
Ovid helps researchers, librarians, clinicians, and other
healthcare professionals find important medical
information so that they can make critical decisions to
improve patient care, enhance ongoing research, and
fuel new discoveries.
We offer a market-leading medical research platform of
premium aggregated content and productivity tools that
make it easy to quickly search information and make
informed decisions on patient care, quality, and clinical
outcomes
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Ovid serves 4 key global markets representing institutions
across a wide range of industries
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Ovid, LWW, Medknow
Unparalleled Global Reach
 Customers in 186
countries across Ovid
and LWW
 Local – Global coverage
with a network of 22
field offices and
distributor channels
 60 member customer
support team
 Headquartered in New
York, NY
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Global reach
• Ovid Customers in 118 countries
• Ovid’s global customer base includes:
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Approx. 12,500 institutions (including all children of consortia)
2,576 medical institutions
2,408 academic institutions
606 corporate institutions
• 21 of the 30 leading global pharmaceutical companies
• 15 of the top 20 biotechnology firms
– 368 government institutions
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Ovid is used by doctors, nurses, teachers, students, social
workers, researchers, librarians, and other information
specialists to help inform their work
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Ovid – Medical Research Solution
Content Depth and Breadth
• Partnerships with more than 150 international
medical, scientific and academic content producers
• Aggregate and offer content breadth & depth in
medical, nursing, clinical, and biosciences subjects
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~100 bibliographic databases
~4,250 ebooks
~2,200 journals
Current content, no embargoes
(only Science – 3 month embargo)
• Many top ranked Journals
– NEJM
JAMA
– LWW
Nature
– Complete list on Ovid.com
BMJ
ACCP
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ACP
Wiley
Ovid – Medical Research Solution
Bringing research to the point-of-use
 OvidSP, world-class precision search
platform
 Supports 741 full text downloads every minute,
globally
 Rich features and customization
 Local language interfaces
 Globally, more than 12,500 institutions use
Ovid
 99.9% overall system availability supported by
two global data centers
 Multiple local language search portals
(Chinese, French, Spanish, Arabic)
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Objectives of AJPP/Ovid Partnership
• Increase the visibility and distribution of AJPP journals
• Deliver content via top global medical research platform
alongside thousands of top ranked journals
• Positive publicity and PR, adding credibility to the already
strong sponsorship from Thomson Reuters and SPi Global
• Anticipating increased citation resulting from increased
visibility via the OvidSP platform
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Partnership Structure
• African journals deliver content to Ovid concurrently
with delivery to NLM in NLM-XML format (ideally with
PDF included but not necessary)
• Ovid creates package of AJPP journals which may be
added to our customer’s entitlements free of charge
– TBD whether customers will “opt in” or “opt out” for access to
this package of titles
• Ovid bears all costs of loading and converting content
to native Ovid DTD (Ovidbase SGML)
• Potential opportunities to package African journals
with respective partner journals – to be explored
further
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Thank you!
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