Welcome to the OvidSH GitHub page

OvidSH is a bookmarklet that enables you to save a machine- and human-readable raw text search history from the OvidSP search interface.

To use the OvidSH bookmarklet drag this link to your bookmarks:

OvidSH

When the bookmarklet is saved, perform a search using OvidSP (e.g. Medline or Embase), expand your search history if necessary and click the OvidSH bookmarklet.

The result should be two different versions of your search history, displayed in raw text. The first version is a tab-separated list containing the search ID, search string and number of results. This list can be pasted into a MS Word table, by marking all cells of a same-size table (e.g. 12x3 if you have 12 lines in your search history) and pasting the list into the table. The second version contains only the search strings, useful for future reference or documentation.