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African Index Medicus (AIM) (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Portuguese)
AIM is an international index to African health literature
and information sources. It is a compilation of national
databases and includes abstracts of journals, articles,
monographs, technical reports and other documents. The
project is a joint endeavor of the Association for Health
Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) and the World
Health Organization . The keyword search engine is accessible
in English, French and Portuguese.
http://indexmedicus.afro.who.int/
BIREME: Database Search (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Portuguese, Spanish)
This site contains 13 health-related databases for the Latin
American and Caribbean region. The access and search tools
are in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
http://bases.bvs.br/public/scripts/php/page_show_main.php?home=true〈=en&form=simple
Clinical Trials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry of federally and privately
supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and
around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information
about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and
phone numbers for more details. It contains a keyword search
engine, ‘study lists’ by condition, drug
intervention, sponsor and location and a section on
investigator instructions. The registry is maintained by the
(U.S.) National Institutes of Health.
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/
Current Controlled Trials
The Current Controlled Trials site is a
tool to increase the availability, and promote the exchange,
of information about ongoing randomized controlled trials
worldwide. It contains two clinical trials resources: ISRCTN
Register, a database of randomized controlled trials with an
International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number
(ISRCTN) and metaRegister of Controlled Trials (mRCT), an
International database combining registers of ongoing
randomised controlled trials in all areas of healthcare. The
site is a resource of information on research within
developing countries and includes all trials approved by the
WHO ethics review board.
http://www.controlled-trials.com/
Global Index Medicus (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Portuguese, Spanish)
The WHO Global Index Medicus has been developed to complement
internationally known indexes such as PubMed (National
Library of Medicine, U.S.). This index focuses on the
considerable amount of valuable health related documents from
outside the major industrialized areas. Published under the
auspices of the WHO regional offices, it includes
bibliographic information on and, in some cases, full-text
access to regionally published health information.
http://www.who.int/ghl/medicus/en/
Index Medicus for South East Asia Region (IMSEAR) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
IMSEAR is a database of citations and abstracts to articles
published in selected journals of the WHO South East Asia
Region. The database can be searched by title, author, and
subject categories. It is maintained by the WHO Regional
Office for South East Asia.
http://www.who.int/library/databases/searo/en/index.html
Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (IMEMR) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
IMEMR is an international index to Eastern Mediterranean
health literature. It is a database of citations and
abstracts to articles published in regional journals. The
site is maintained by the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
Library Network.
http://www.emro.who.int/HIS/VHSL/Imemr.htm
Indian Medlars Centre (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site provides access to IndMED, a bibliographic database
of 75 Indian biomedical journals, and
MedIND, a portal that contains
links to fulltext articles in 38 journals indexed in IndMED.
It also includes a database of journal holdings of major
medical libraries in India, links to relevant websites and a
mirror site for access to MEDLINE databases on the Indian
sub-continent.
http://indmed.nic.in/
Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS) (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Portuguese, Spanish)
LILACS is a database that contains health related literature
published in the region since 1982. It has keyword access to
abstracts and citations for articles from 670 regional
journals plus documents, books, scientific reports and
governmental publications. The database is maintained by
BIREME and is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
http://bases.bireme.br/cgi-bin/wxislind.exe/iah/online/?IsisScript=iah/iah.xis&base=LILACS〈=i&form=F
List of Serials Indexed for Online Users
This is a list of complete bibliographic
information on serials cited MEDLINE (PubMed) and HealthSTAR.
The site is maintained by the National Library of Medicine,
U.S.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lsiou.html
MSF Field Research (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (Portuguese, Spanish)
In this website, Médecins Sans Frontières makes available
published research based on its medical work. The site
requires no password, contains free full-text articles and
also includes a search engine.
http://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/
pm2mail (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
pm2mail (PUBMED-TO-EMAIL) is a free software that allows
email access to PUBMED and to full-text articles of
scientific and medical journals indexed by Medline. This is a
useful tool for all professionals with slow access to the
Internet.
http://www.nongnu.org/pm2mail/
Practical Pointers
Practical Pointers provides 'exit
abstracts' of articles from some of the world's core medical
journals: New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the
American Medical Association, British Medical Journal,
Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Archives of Internal
Medicine.
http://www.practicalpointers.org
PubMed: Multilanguage Search (BabelMeSH) (Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish)
This site is a multi-language search tool for PubMed/MEDLINE.
Users can search with Arabic, French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish, medical terms or
phrases and will receive citations in English. The National
Library of Medicine, U.S. tool still is under development and
more languages will be added in the future.
http://babelmesh.nlm.nih.gov/
* PubMed Retrieval System (MEDLINE) (Portuguese, Spanish)
PubMed is a free search tool to the 18 million citations
(1950 to date) in MEDLINE. It is a service of the National
Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National
Library of Medicine, U.S. Users can search by author, journal
title, keyword or ID number. The site contains a (simplified)
free-text, natural language (English only) query with GSpell
spelling checker at
askMEDLINE. It contains links to several other
NLM databases (Nucleotide, Protein, Genome, Structure,
PopSet, Taxonomy, OMIM). Via Bireme, the 1993 to date
information is searchable in
Spanish and
Portuguese.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
* Source Resource Library: International Health and Disability (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This is a bibliographic database that provides access to over
20,000 records on primary health care and disability in
developing countries. It is a collaboration between
Healthlink Worldwide, Centre for International Child Health,
and Handicap International. The site can be searched by
keyword, subject, country and region.
http://www.asksource.info/res_library.htm
WHOLIS (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Spanish)
WHOLIS is the World Health Organization library database
available on the Web. It indexes all WHO publications from
1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and
technical documents from 1985 to the present. WHOLIS contains
bibliographic information with subject headings and, for some
records, abstracts and, for other records, full text links
are available. The directory also is available in Spanish and
French.
http://www.who.int/library/databases/en/
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