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Ovid Partners with SIRC to Provide Free Access to Medical Resources at the 2004 Olympics
Athletes and Doctors Will Be Able to Search Leading Sports Medicine Resources
New York, NY (August 4, 2004) – Ovid Technologies, an internationally recognized leader of electronic medical, scientific, and social sciences information solutions, and SIRC, a world leading source for academic and medical sport research, announced today that they will provide free access to SIRC SportDiscus, a premier sports medicine database, to physicians, coaches athletes and sports administrators throughout the Pre-Olympic Scientific Congress and the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
Olympic Game participants, as well as qualified sports and medical professionals from around the globe, will be able to access important medical resources, including the leading sports medicine database SIRC SportDiscus, as well as renowned journals from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, the BMJ Publishing Group, and Adis International. This information will help ensure that the best quality care is provided to all the athletes participating in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. These resources will be available from August 6th to the 29th for free through the Ovid Online platform at the International Association of Sport Information (IASI) Cyber Café, located at the Thessaloniki Hellas Aristotle University campus, Greece.
“As with the athletes themselves, only world-class products and services make it to the Olympics,” said Gary Foster, President and CEO of Ovid. “We’re, therefore, thrilled to have been selected, along with SIRC, to provide vital sports medicine data that will help these gifted athletes perform at their very best. Ovid’s vast repository and precision research tools, coupled with SIRC’s comprehensive database, will help physicians, coaches and other professionals support the athletes during the games.”
“As international athletes gather in Greece to follow their dreams of Olympic glory, we are honored to provide access to qualified sport information that may assist them in their pursuit of excellence,” said Debra Gassewitz, President & CEO, SIRC.
With Ovid’s precise online search capabilities, users will be able to easily find full-text information on such topics as sports medicine, sports psychology, sports sociology, and psychiatry, sports history and philosophy, physiology, biomechanics, nutrition, physical education, fitness, dance and coaching. Ovid Online draws upon vast information resources including the world’s most respected databases, such as SIRC SportDiscus, across a wide range of disciplines. It also features premium full text journals from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, including American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, Exercise and Sports Science Reviews, Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, Techniques in Foot & Ankle Surgery, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, and Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review.
Doctors and athletes will have access to comprehensive subject focus from thousands of international periodicals, books, e-journals, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, and websites, as well as direct links to full-text articles. Featuring over 650,000 references in 60 languages, SIRC SportDiscus offers research and practical information in such areas as sports medicine, sport and exercise science, physical, occupational and recreational therapy, sports psychology, kinesiology and human movement studies and rehabilitation science.
In addition, Ovid Online will offer the BMJ Publishing Group’s British Journal of Sports Medicine, which features the latest advances in research and clinical practice, as well as Adis International’s Sports Medicine, a premiere sports medicine review journal.
The robustness of the Ovid platform offers many added benefits for researchers seeking information about sports medicine. Ovid’s search technology greatly improves the quality and precision of the user’s search experience, by limiting search results to items which have full text available. Physicians, physical therapists, and other sports health professionals at the Olympics who need fast, accurate answers to their medical questions will benefit from this free access to the most current sports medicine content to support a diagnosis or treatment.
”As a former Canadian National Team and Olympic Team doctor, I am pleased to see the SIRC SportDiscus database will once again be featured at the Olympic Games. Doctors, trainers and therapists from all countries will benefit from the extensive research and practical material being made available to them,” said Dr. Mark Aubry, former Chief Medical Officer for Canada's 1992 Winter Olympic Team and the Chief Medical Officer of the International Ice Hockey Federation.
About SIRC
SIRC (www.sirc.ca) is a not-for-profit organization based in Ottawa, Canada. Founded in 1973 as a resource for coaches, athletes, sports medicine professionals and sporting organizations, SIRC has grown to become a world leading source for academic and medical sport research. The SIRC SportDiscus database is considered to be the primary sport research tool in libraries worldwide. To subscribe to the SIRC SportDiscus database or to the SIRC Document Delivery Service, visit www.sirc.ca.
About Ovid
Ovid (www.ovid.com) is an information solutions provider focused on offering the combination of content, tools and services that makes research smarter, faster and more effective. Ovid energizes the thinking of researchers and clinicians by developing the individualized experience each customer needs. We support Ovid Online and SilverPlatter Online customers, and provide a local solution for customers requiring offline access. Ovid is used by the world’s leading colleges and universities; medical schools; academic schools; academic research libraries and library consortia; hospitals and healthcare systems; pharmaceutical, engineering and biotechnology companies; HMOs and clinical practices. Ovid is an operating company of Wolters Kluwer Health (WKHealth), a division of Wolters Kluwer, NV, a multinational information services company with annual sales of more than €3.9 billion and 20,000 employees.
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