International Databases
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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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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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CAB DIRECT (incl. Global Health)
Over 12.000.000 records from the CABI databases, incorporating a.o. Tropical Diseases Bulletin, providing an important complement to e.g. PubMed searches for tropical medicine and parasitology literature.
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COCHRANE LIBRARY (John Wiley)
10.000 systematic reviews and over 1.000.000 registered clinical trials. 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. -
CRD DATABASE (Centre for Reviews and Dissimination / National Institute for Health Research)
DARE 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 ITM Books catalog, Clinical eBooks Collection, ERIC, Library & Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) and Medline Complete.
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EDS – ITM Library’s Discovery Service
Our central search engine combines several of the library’s major information sources into one portal indexing millions of items readily available to ITM patrons. EDS integrates both international databases such as Medline Complete or ScienceDirect and specific ITM collections such as the complete ITM books catalog (both printed and online), ITM dissertations and ITM publications.
- Use the limit options on the left panel to focus your search: All ITM Collections / ITM Library Collections / ITM Publications / etc.
- 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’.
- Next to most full-text e-journals and e-books available to ITM, EDS also contains a selection of international bibliographic databases from which part of the full-text items may not be available online or in the library. The FullTextFinder feature aims to link to appropriate full-text content, but cannot always guarantee its immediate availability.
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EDS-GUEST ACCESS – ITM Library’s Discovery Services
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 content.
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EDS-PLUS – ITM Library’s Super Search Engine
This version of EDS searches in far more databases and online collections provided by Ebsco.
As such the bibliographical search results are 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 immediate full-text availability.
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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, incorporating a.o. Tropical Diseases Bulletin, 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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INCITES (Clarivate Analytics)
Calibrate Your Strategic Research Vision -
INTERNET Search Engines (Phil Bradley)
Survey of 200 different internet search engines.
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ISI WoK – Web of Knowledge (Clarivate Analytics)
Very 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 (Clarivate Analytics)
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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MEDLINE COMPLETE (EbscoHost)
Full-text of over 2,300 journals indexed in Medline. Most of these have an embargo of 1 or more months. Medline Complete is fully integrated in ITM’s EDS discovery service.
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MICROSOFT ACADEMIC
Very large multidisciplinary bibliographic database, also featuring extensive citation linking
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NLM Gateway (NIH)
Medline plus additional NLM databases.
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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 30,000,000 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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SEMANTIC SCHOLAR
Free academic search engine from AI2 -
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 16 million records.
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UPTODATE (Wolters Kluwer)
Evidence-based clinical decision support resource.
Access limited to ITM clinicians.