Databases for finding articles, research and statistical information related to health issues
Provides multi-disciplinary coverage about African including medicine, politics, history, economics, business, mining, development, social issues, anthropology, natural history, literature, language, law, music and much more. Sources indexed include theses, dissertations, journals, current research, popular magazines, reviews, monographs, pamphlets, government publications, maps, microforms, newspapers, books, and music recordings. Incorporates three databases' content: African Healthline African Studies and South African Studies. To limit to medical content, use the Database Subset limit and select African Healthline.
Format: Database
Provider: EBSCOhost
Restricted to Duke IP addresses
Improved access to what has been published on health issues in African countries. Very few African health and biomedical information sources are included in the world's leading bibliographic databases and there is a wealth of untapped information in books, reports and studies from international development agencies, nongovernmental organizations and local institutions.
Format: Database
Provider: MedWebplus
Online encyclopedia of global health topics.
Format: Website
Use of this resource is restricted to Duke faculty, staff, and students.
Formerly CAB Health; 1973-Present - 1 million records of which 95% contain abstracts. Indexes 3500 serials, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, patents, theses, electronic only publications and hard to find items from over 125 countries. In addition to comprehensive coverage of the core public health literature, it includes significant unique content (compared with the other mainstream health databases) particularly in the areas of tropical medicine, infectious diseases, vector control, food safety and epidemiology. Links to open source full-text journals.
Format: Database
Provider: EBSCO
The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries.
Format: Website
Provider: World Health Organization
EMR Index project started in 1987 by indexing the health and biomedical journals published in the Region in 1984.
The EMR Index Medicus database has become current and as up to date as the journals themselves, which for the first time can provide a current awareness service to what has been published in the Region.
Format: Database
Provider: World Health Organization
IndexMedicus for South East Asia Region (IMSEAR) is a database of articles published in selected journals at WHO South East Asia Region. It is a collaborative effort of participating libraries in Health Literature, Library and Information Services (HELLIS) network in the region.
Format: Database
Provider: World Health Organization
A centre jointly set up by National Informatics Centre (NIC) and ICMR to cater to the information needs of medical community of India. A government funded bibliographic database of Indian biomedical journals.
Format: Database
Provider: National Informatics Centre
BIREME - Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is the regional health library for the Americas of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Americas.
Format: Database
Provider: World Health Organization
PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1940s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. MY NCBI service allows users to save and update their search strategies. Includes a tutorial.
Format: Database
Provider: National Library of Medicine
The guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization
Format: Database
Provider: World Health Organization
