ITM Library Databases
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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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PURE – ITM’s Research Portal
Featuring ca. 13,000 ITM staff publications, plus surveys of research units, researchers, and projects.
Copyright: Institute of Tropical Medicine 2010-2018.
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TMCA – TropMed Central Antwerp
Institutional Open Access Repository (1990-present) featuring over 8,300 ITM staff publications, over 30% with full-text in open access. Currently substantial arrears exist for the publication years 2016 and 2017. These will be remedied in the next few months.
Copyright: The Library. Institute of Tropical Medicine 2007-2018.
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ITG Staff Publications
Subject: all publications by ITM staff 1900-2017.
- Volume: over 16,800 records.
- Document types: 65% articles; 2% books & reports; 10% book chapters; 21% abstracts; 1% dissertations; 1% other.
- Language distribution: 58% English; 34% French; 6% Dutch; 2% other languages.
- Scope: exhaustive coverage; when communicated to the ITG library staff, published items missing in the database will be added in later updates.
- Order: the records are presented in reverse chronological order.
- Keywords: all keywords are in English. No controlled thesaurus is used, so various synonyms may occur.
- Availability: not all publications included are available in the ITG library, yet most (> 85%) are.
- Electronic availability: most post-2000 publications included are now also available in electronic format.
- Update frequency: the database is complete up to year 2016. For more recent publications please check the PURE database. Last updated in March 2018.
- Copyright: The Library. Institute of Tropical Medicine 1998-2018.
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Medical Literature on Central Africa (1878-present )
Comprehensive database of publications of medical and veterinary interest concerning three countries of Central Africa: Congo-Kinshasa (formerly Zaire), Rwanda, Burundi (1878-present).
- Volume: ca. 20,000 records.
- Document types: 72% articles; 5% books & reports; 7% book chapters; 10% abstracts; 5% dissertations; 1% other.
- Language distribution: 66% French; 31% English; 3% other languages.
- Scope: exhaustive database; when communicated to the ITG library staff, published items missing in the database will be added in later updates.
- Order: the records are presented in reverse chronological order.
- Keywords: all keywords are in English. No controlled thesaurus is used, so various synonyms may occur.
- Availability: not all publications included are available in the ITM library, yet over 80% are.
- Update frequency: quarterly. This explains why the most recent publications may not have been included yet. Last updated in March 2018.
- Copyright: The Library. Institute of Tropical Medicine 1998-2018.
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Ebola and Marburg Virus Disease Literature
Comprehensive database of publications concerning Ebola and Marburg virus and Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fever (1967-2016).
- Volume: ca. 4,750 records.
- Document types: 79% articles; 2% books & reports; 9% book chapters; 9% abstracts; 1% others.
- Language distribution: 75% English; 11% French; 6% Russian; 8% other languages.
- Scope: exhaustive database.
- Order: the records are presented in reverse chronological order.
- Keywords: all keywords are in English. No controlled thesaurus is used, so various synonyms may occur.
- Availability: not all publications included are available in the ITM library.
- Update frequency: in principle the database is complete up to year 2016. As Ebola/Marburg literature has become so vast in recent years, more recent articles are added sparingly. Last updated in March 2018.
- Copyright: The Library. Institute of Tropical Medicine 1998-2018.
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Ann Soc Belg Méd Trop (1920-1995)
All articles published in the journal “Annales de la Société Belge de Médecine Tropicale” (1920-1995).
- Volume: over 4,400 records.
- Languages: 75% French; 22% English; 3% other languages.
- Scope: exhaustive database.
- Order: the records are presented in reverse chronological order.
- Keywords: all keywords are in English. No controlled thesaurus is used, so various synonyms may occur. Take care: at present not all records concerning Congo-Kinshasa, Rwanda or Burundi explicitely feature the keyword “Africa, Central”.
- Availability: all publications included are available in the ITM library.
- Electronic availability: all articles are now also freely available in electronic format (PDF), linked from within the Notes field of the database.
- Update frequency: the database is complete.
- Copyright: The Library. Institute of Tropical Medicine 1998-2018.
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Tropical Endemic Diseases Control
Selection of publications on the control of the major endemic diseases in developing countries: amebiasis, ankylostomiasis (hookworm disease), ascariasis, bacillary dysentery (shigellosis), cervix neoplasms, Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis), cholera, dengue, diabetes, dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease), ebola virus, filariasis, gonorrhea, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, hydatidosis, leishmaniasis, leprosy, leptospirosis, malaria, measles, meningitis, MERS, obesity, onchocerciasis (river blindness), plague, poliomyelitis, rabies, SARS, scabies, schistosomiasis, sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis), syphilis, tetanus, trachoma, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yaws, yellow fever, zika virus.
- Volume: ca. 12,500 records.
- Document types: 88% articles; 9% books & reports; 3% book chapters.
- Language distribution: 80% English; 20% French.
- Scope: highly selective database. While many more publications may be relevant for these topics, only a choice of items received by the ITM library is selected.
- Order: the records are presented in reverse chronological order.
- Keywords: all keywords are in English. The database is indexed extensively for the diseases listed above. All other keywords are descriptive only. No controlled thesaurus is used, so various synonyms may occur.
- Availability: all publications included in the database are available in the ITM library.
- Update frequency: quarterly. Last updated in July 2017.
- Copyright: The Library. Institute of Tropical Medicine 1998-2017.
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Health Care in Developing Countries
Selection of publications on health care in developing countries. This database is especially relevant for participants of the “Health Systems Management and Policy” (HSMP, formerly ICHD) Master of Science in Public Health course organized at ITM.
- Volume: over 12,000 records.
- Document types: 67% articles; 24% books & reports; 9% book chapters.
- Language distribution: 82% English; 17% French; 1% other languages.
- Scope: highly selective database. While many more publications may be relevant for these topics, only a choice of items received by the ITM library is selected.
- Order: the records are presented in reverse chronological order.
- Keywords: all keywords are in English. No controlled thesaurus is used, so various synonyms may occur.
- Availability: all publications included are available in the ITM library.
- Update frequency: quarterly. Last updated in March 2018.
- Copyright: The Library. Institute of Tropical Medicine 1998-2018.
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Library & Information Science
Selection of publications on scientific literature and its various aspects. Major topics include: authorship, bibliographic databases (Medline, etc.), bibliographic formats (Vancouver, etc.), bibliometrics, biomedical literature: guidelines (e.g. how to write scientific papers), evaluation and correct interpretation, citation analysis, electronic libraries, open access, clinical trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, electronic journals and virtual libraries, information retrieval, internet resources and applications, librarianship and library automation, peer review, reading the literature, writing research articles.
- Volume: over 7,400 records.
- Document types: 95% articles; 4% books & reports; 1% others.
- Language distribution: 92% English; 7% Dutch; 1% other languages.
- Scope: highly selective database, based on personal choice and serendipity.
- Order: the records are presented in reverse chronological order.
- Keywords: all keywords are in English. No controlled thesaurus is used, so various synonyms may occur.
- Availability: all publications (or photocopies) included are available in the ITM library.
- Update frequency: quarterly. Last updated in March 2018.
- Copyright: The Library. Institute of Tropical Medicine 1998-2018.