FHI360-SATELLIFE Health Information and Technology | Bibliographic Databases, Abstracts and Trials Databases

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

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://regional.bvsalud.org/php/index.php?lang=en

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 Health Library (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Portuguese, Spanish)

The WHO Global Health Library has links to the varous global and regional indexes of the WHO and its regional offices. These regional and global indexes include bibliographic information on and, in some cases, full-text access to regionally published health information. http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/php/index.php

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/information-resources/imemr/imemr.html

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&lang=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/

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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