The same record may be retrieved from more than one resource and appear multiple times in a results set. Ovid's deduplication feature allows you to eliminate duplicate records.
Note: The de-duplication feature is only available for results sets that have less than 6,000 records. For larger sets, the de-duplicate option is not be available.
Removing Duplicate Records
Select the Remove Duplicates option from one of these two locations:
- Deduplicate link in Search Information box
- Deduplicate button in Search History
Click on Search History located at the top-left corner of the search results page.
Check the box of the search results you want to deduplicate.
Chose the Deduplicate button in the Search History box.
Select or edit your deduping preferences and click Continue.
The deduplicated total will appear in the search results
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