International Databases
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EDS – ITM Library Discovery Service
Search engine indexing most of the library’s information resources, including the full ITM books catalog. EDS integrates over a dozen databases and collections (selected by the ITM library) into one portal. As such it includes millions of items.
- EDS contains all full-text e-journals and e-books collections available to ITM. But EDS also contains a selection of bibliographic databases from which the full-text context may not be available online or in the library.
- Use the limit options to narrow your search: Online Content / Available for ITM / ITM Library Books.
- Default results display order is by relevance. You can change this to publication date (newest/oldest first).
- The publication type icons may sometimes be confusing. E.g. ‘Academic journal’ vs. ‘Magazine’.
- The ‘ITM Library Books’ also contain hundreds of book chapters published by ITM authors, which are labeled erroneously as ‘eBook’. Visibility and retrievability of these book chapters is more important than a correct publication type label.
- The FullTextFinder option aims to retrieve the appropriate online full text, but does not always guarantee its actual availability at ITM.
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EDSPlus – ITM Library Super Search
This version of EDS searches in more databases and online collections offered by Ebsco.
As such the bibliographical search results are fully maximized, but the inevitable downside is that for a large part of them full text may not available for ITM patrons. We suggest you use this EDS version only when your search needs to be as broad as possible, irrespective of full-text availability.
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EDS – ITM Library Discovery Service – Guest Access
Guest access for searching ITM’s discovery service EDS (see: above). Guests will have access to most of the bibliographic retrieval resources, but will need a login code to access licenced full text.
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AIM – African Index Medicus (WHOLINK)
In order to give access to information published in or related to Africa and to encourage local publishing, the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) with the technical support of the World Health Organization has produced an international index to African health literature and information sources.
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BASE Documentaire pour Leishmanioses et Phlébotomes (Université Montpellier 1)
Le Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie de la Faculté de Médecine (Université Montpellier 1) et du CHRU de Montpellier poursuit depuis les années 1960 une activité continue de recherche dans le domaine des leishmanioses et des phlébotomes dans de nombreux pays de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Monde. Il a accumulé à cette occasion, en particulier grâce au Pr. J.A. Rioux, une collection unique de tirés-à-part sur ces maladies. Au cours des ans, cette collection s’est amplifiée et est devenue un véritable auxiliaire pour la réalisation de travaux scientifiques, en particulier s’agissant d’études historiques.
La base de données présentée, contient et permet l’accès à plus de 3500 articles scientifiques, souvent anciens (à partir de l’année 1832) et d’origines géographiques diverses sur les Leishmania, les leishmanioses et les phlébotomes.
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BDSP – Banque de Données en Santé Publique (EHESP Rennes, France)
La Banque de données en santé publique (BDSP) est un réseau documentaire d’informations en santé publique dont la gestion est assurée par l’Ecole des hautes études en santé publique (EHESP).
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BIBLIMED (Easy & Efficient)
Biblimed is based on the Medline database, but claims to offer ‘a smarter and easier interface’.
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CAB DIRECT (incl. Global Health)
Over 11.800.000 records from the CABI databases, providing an important complement to e.g. PubMed searches for tropical medicine and parasitology literature.
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COCHRANE Library (John Wiley)
Independent high quality evidence for health care decision making.
Cochrane is a global independent network of health practitioners, researchers, patient advocates and others, responding to the challenge of making the vast amounts of evidence generated through research useful for informing decisions about health. We are a not-for-profit organisation with collaborators from over 120 countries working together to produce credible, accessible health information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest. -
DARE – Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (NHS/CRD)
DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects) is focused primarily on systematic reviews that evaluate the effects of health care interventions and the delivery and organisation of health services.
The database also includes reviews of the wider determinants of health such as housing, transport, and social care where these impact directly on health, or have the potential to impact on health.
Every week we undertake extensive searches and assess thousands of citations to identify potential systematic reviews._
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EBSCO Databases
8 bibliographic and/or full-text databases hosted by Ebsco, including MEDLINE, Clinical eBooks Collection, ERIC, and Library & Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
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ERIC – Education Resource Information Center
ERIC provides access to education literature and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records and provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Eric also comprises over 250,000 full-text items.
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GLOBAL HEALTH (included in CABI Direct)
Over 12.000.000 records from the CABI databases, providing an important complement to e.g. PubMed searches for tropical medicine and parasitology literature.
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GOOGLE Scholar
Standing on the shoulders of giants.
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GOPUBMED
Sorted PubMed searching.
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INTERNET Search Engines (Phil Bradley)
Survey of 200 different internet search engines.
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ISI WoK – ISI Web of Knowledge (Clarivate Analytics)
Large and influential multidisciplinary bibliographic database, featuring a.o. the Science Citation Index (1955-present), Social Science Citation Index (1956-present) and Journal Citation Reports (1997-present).
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JCR – Journal Citation Reports
For finding Journal Impact Factors or JIFS of over 12,000 journals (Clarivate Analytics) – Select ISI Web of Knowledge, 3rd tab at the top of the screen.
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LILACS – Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciéncias da Saùde (PAHO/BIREME)
LILACS is the most important and comprehensive index of scientific and technical literature of Latin America and the Caribbean. For over 30 years contributing to increase visibility, access and quality of health information in the Region.
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LISTA – Library and Information Science and Technology Abstracts (EbscoHost)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 580 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
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MIP Library – Malaria in Pregnancy Library (MiPC, LSTM)
The Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Library is a regularly updated, comprehensive bibliographic database of published and unpublished literature relating to malaria in pregnancy, including a trial registry of planned and ongoing trials. The MiP library is a product of the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium and is available free of charge.
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MEDLINE (EbscoHost)
Medline forms the fully indexed core of the PubMed database.
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MICROSOFT Academic Search
Multidisciplinary search engine.
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NLM Gateway (NIH)
Medline plus additional NLM databases.
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PUBGET (Find papers fast)
Pubget is the comprehensive source for science PDFs, including everything you’d find in Medline. 10,000 papers added each day.
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PUBMED (incl. MedLine) (NCBI)
Contents: the major international biomedical database, produced by the National Library of Medicine (USA).
Characteristics:
- Subject: medicine and allied sciences or specialties.
- Volume: 1950-present: over 28,000,000 references.
- Document types: Medline/PubMed contains exclusively journal articles; books and reports are generally not included. The database is produced by scanning
approximately 5,000 biomedical journals.
From the quantitative point of view this is only a fraction of the total number of biomedical journals, but the quality of this selection guarantees that virtually all important publications of the world literature are included – however, Medline/PubMed has a strong Anglosaxon bias.
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SCI – Science Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
The major component of ISI Web of Knowledge, a large and influential multidisciplinary bibliographic database, featuring a.o. the Science Citation Index (1955-present), Social Science Citation Index (1956-present) and Journal Citation Reports (1997-present).
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SOURCE (International Information Support Centre)
Source is an international online resource centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on disability and inclusion in development and humanitarian contexts.
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UNICAT
Union Catalogue of Belgian Libraries, with over 14 million records.
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UPTODATE (Wolters Kluwer)
Evidence-based clinical decision support resource.
Access limited to ITM clinicians.