Databases

(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.

(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._

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, Global Health 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.

(EbscoHost)

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and some 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.

(ITM Library)

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. This database is also fully integrated in the EDS Discovery Service: use the limiter ‘Information Science’ on the left side of the EDS results screen!

• Volume: over 8,000 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 September 2022.
• Copyright: The Library. Institute of Tropical Medicine 1998-2022.

(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.

 (NIH – NLM – 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 35,000,000 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.