Ovid Technologies, provider of electronic medical, scientific, and academic research information solutions, has announced its next generation federated search solution, SearchSolver. Ovid SearchSolver is a federated search and resource discovery tool intended to allow organizations to simplify access to online information. With SearchSolver as a single point of access and authentication, users can conduct one-step searches across hundreds of information sources. Unified results can further be edited and ranked as well as exported in research work tools.

SearchSolver is designed for online environments and capitalizes on Ovid's knowledge of bibliographic and full text database structure. By addressing the proliferation of Google-type searching, SearchSolver is designed to normalize the experience for today's end-users by integrating disparate silos of information and presents results in a Web-based format. Results also display information source names (i.e. bibliographic database brands).