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SIRC Partners with Ovid Technologies to Provide Free Access to
Medical Resources at the 2004 Paralympic Games
Athletes and Doctors will be able to Search Leading Sports Medicine Resources
Ottawa, ON (September 17, 2004) – SIRC, a world leading sport information provider and Ovid Technologies, an internationally recognized leader of electronic medical, scientific and social sciences information solutions have partnered to provide all Paralympians, doctors, trainers and coaching staff at the 2004 Paralympics with free access to the premiere SIRC SportDiscus database. Paralympics are elite sport events for athletes from six different disability groups.
Paralympians, trainers, doctors and coaches alike will have access to qualified sports medicine information, including the leading sports medicine database SIRC SportDiscus. Also available are renowned journals from Lippincott Williams & Wilkens, the BMJ Publishing Group, and Adis International. Users of this service will have the best sports medicine available day or night. These resources will be available through the SIRC website (www.sirc.ca) through the Ovid platform from September 17th to the 29th.
“Ovid is pleased to support the Paralympians in providing them with the most current sport information resources, including comprehensive subject focus material from thousands of international periodicals, books, e-journals, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, and websites, as well as direct links to full text articles,” said Scott MacFarland, Vice President of Content Product Management at Ovid. “Together with SIRC we are able to provide vital sports medicine data that will help these gifted athletes perform at their very best.“
“It is time for the Paralympians to follow their dreams to Olympic glory. Research should be made available to all athletes and SIRC is honored to provide the Paralympics with access to the world’s leading sport research database” said Debra Gassewitz, President and CEO, SIRC. SIRC SportDiscus database 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.
With over 700,000 sport references in 60 languages in SIRC SportDiscus plus Ovid’s precise online search capabilities, users will be able to easily find full-text information on such topics as sports medicine, rehabilitation and injury prevention, sports psychology, sports sociology, and psychiatry, sports history and philosophy, physiology, biomechanics, nutrition, physical education, fitness, dance and coaching. Also featured will be the 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 Anthroscopy Review.
Ovid 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 that have full text available. Physicians, physical therapists, and other sports health professionals at the Paralympics 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.
By focusing on the Paralympians’ athletic achievements rather than their disability, the movement has grown dramatically since its first days. In 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition involving World War II veterans with a spinal cord injury in Stoke Mandeville, England. Four years later, competitors from the Netherlands joined the games and an international movement was born. Olympic style games for athletes with a disability were organized for the first time in Rome in 1960, now called Paralympics. In Toronto in 1976, other disability groups were added and the idea of merging together different disability groups for international sport competitions was born. In the same year, the first Paralympic Winter Games took place in Sweden. The Paralympic Games have always been held in the same year as the Olympic Games.
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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