Just had some really useful replies, and also request from
someone else to circ any results, so see below (you've already
seen Andrew's message).
As a small contribution, there are a couple of databases I know
in comp med which I dont think are on the lists:
1)The NCCAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Citation
Index (CCI) http://nccam.nih.gov/nccam/databases.html
2)HerbMed http://www.amfoundation.org/herbmed.htm
For a longer list (but includes free and paying) see
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/database.html
This mailing list is amazing- can get top quality information in
minutes! Thanks.
Fiona
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Pam Royle has a list at http://www.soton.ac.uk/~plr/databases.htm, particularly
geared to HTA.
Includes the weBNF- I didnt realise that was free! Her contact details:
Pamela Royle
NCCHTA
Wessex Institute for Health Research & Development. Email: [log in to unmask]
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Subject: RE: free health databases?
Author: "Ebenezer; Catherine" <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date: 8/2/00 2:15 PM
Catherine Ebenezer
Librarian
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
020 7411 6164
Faciendi multos libros non est finis
The following is a list of free bibliographic databases of relevance to
students and practitioners in community and mental health. I have drawn
substantially on the previous work of Andrew Booth of ScHARR in compiling
it. These sources all include at least some published journal literature.
Most are searchable, rather than just browsable. I have excluded library
catalogues and full-text sources relating specifically to evidence based
practice; these are documented exhaustively in Andrew Booth's Netting the
Evidence
AgeInfo
A limited version of the database: covers policy and welfare issues relating
to the elderly
http://www.cpa.org.uk/ageinfo/ageinfo.html
AIDSLINE/AIDSDRUGS/AIDSTRIALS
The NLM's HIV/AIDS databases
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
American Psychoanalytic Association: Jourlit and Bookrev
Huge bibliographies of psychoanalytic journal articles, books and book
reviews
http://www.apsa.org/lit/index.htm
BiblioSleep
A bibliography of papers on sleep and related subjects
http://www.websciences.org/bibliosleep/
Bioethicsline
An NLM database of published literature related to bioethics
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
CHID - the Combined Health Information Database
A US database of health promotion/education materials and initiatives
http://chid.nih.gov/welcome/welcome.html
Cochrane Library
Includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, DARE (see below) and
the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register.
http://www.update-software.com/cochrane.htm
Register free for full-text access at
http://www.update-software.com/clibhome/lonreg.htm
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness: DARE
http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/welcome.html
English National Board Health Care Database
Journal articles, books, grey literature, audiovisual material related to
nursing, midwifery and health visiting
http://www.enb.org.uk/hcd.htm
Education Online
A UK education database: not huge, but useful
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/BEID.html
ERIC
The world's largest source of education information: documents and journal
articles
http://askeric.org/Eric/
ETOH: the National Institute on Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
database
Bibliographic resources (US) on alcohol and alcohol misuse
http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/
European Clearing House on Health Systems Reform Literature and Research
Database
Published and grey literature on health services and health policy in a
European context
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/nuffield/infoservices/ECHHSR/dbase.html
FindArticles.com
Free access to full text of professional journals in many fields,
commercially sponsored. A search on "Asperger" retrieved material from BMJ
and Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. A
good alternative to the Northern Light Special Collection
http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml
Health Promotion Information Centre: HealthPromis
An extensive searchable collection of books, statistical data, research
reports, journal articles, and other resources on health promotion. Includes
other specialist health promotion databases which can be searched separately
within HealthPromis:
Black and minority ethnic groups
Learning disabilities
Older people
Young people
HEA research publications
http://www.hea.org/hpic/index.html
HealthSTAR
The NLM's health service management database. Its coverage is comprehensive,
but there is a strong US bias.
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA)
Contains abstracts of assessments of health technologies produced by INAHTA
and other agencies
http://agatha.york.ac.uk/welcome.htm
Links to Psychological Journals: Armin Guenther's list
An index of 1600+ online psychology and social science journals; can be used
to locate articles online
http://www.wiso.uni-augsburg.de/sozio/hartmann/psycho/welcome.html
HEBSWEB
Another useful health promotion database (journal articles etc.) from the
Health Education Board for Scotland
http://www.hebs.scot.nhs.uk/pro.htm
MEDLINE
Medical journal article database produced by the National Library of
Medicine (U.S.) since 1996. Accessible via two alternative interfaces:
PubMed and Grateful Med, at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases.html
NHS Economic Evaluation Database (EED)
A database of structured abstracts of economic evaluations of health care
interventions
http://agatha.york.ac.uk/welcome.htm
OPAL: Online Psychology Article Listing
A small database of psychology articles
http://psych-www.colorado.edu:591/opal/
Outcomes Literature Database
Covers materials relevant to the study and development of methods of
assessing changes in health status in repines to health or social care
interventions. Includes grey and published literature. Primarily UK in focus
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/nuffield/inforservices/UKCH/child.html
PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence Database
An initiative of the Centre for Evidence Based Physiotherapy (CEBP).
Provides access to bibliographic details of randomised controlled trials in
physiotherapy
http://ptwww.cchs.usyd.edu.au/pedro/
PIE Online: Policy Information Exchange
American database of primary sources on mental health policy and services
http://pie.org/mimhweb/pie/pie.asp
PILOTS (Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome)
Index to worldwide literature on PTSD and other sequelae of trauma
http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/ptsd
Southampton University Nursing Bibliographies
A wide range of bibliographies on nursing subjects, regularly updated
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~library/nursing/index.shtml
SPIN - Science Policy Information News database
Produced by the Wellcome Institute. Contains summaries of articles related
to science policy and the public understanding of science from over 150
journals and newspapers
http://wisdom.wellcome.ac.uk/wisdom/spinhome.html
UnCover
Database of articles from scholarly journals on a wide range of subjects:
lots of health sciences content. Some available full text for $10 each via
fax using the UnCover Reveal service
http://uncweb.carl.org/
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I maintain a list of databases as part of an information paper on web sites
of particular interest to physiotherapists. I have copied the section on
databases below.
Caroline Miller MA
Information Officer
Information Resource Centre
Research and Clinical Effectiveness Unit
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
http://www.csp.org.uk
AMED
http://www.bl.uk/services/stb/amed.html
This site provides information on the AMED - Allied and Complementary
Medicine (formerly the Physiotherapy Index) database including a list of
journals indexed on AMED (but does not provide access to the database).
CenterWatch
http://www.centerwatch.com/MAIN.HTM
This is a clinical trials listing service designed to be a resource both
for
patients interested in participating in clinical trials and for research
professionals.
Clinical Trials Database
http://www.nih.gov/health/trials/
Current Controlled Trials
http://www.controlled-trials.com/
Current Controlled Trials is dedicated to promoting the exchange of
information about controlled trials in all areas of healthcare. The site
currently features: the metaRegister of Controlled Trials (mRCT) and the
Controlled Trials Links Register.
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR):
Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews
http://www.update-software.com/ccweb/cochrane/revabstr/mainindex.htm
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/darehp.htm
EMBASE
http://www.healthgate.com/help/price/embase.shtml
EMBASE is one of the leading databases of biomedical literature, with 13
comprehensive categories including Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine.
ERIC
http://ericir.syr.edu/
The site includes a search facility of the AskEric world wide web site, a
search facility of all ERIC clearing houses and components and access to
the
ERIC database on educational issues.
Free MEDLINE via the National Library of Medicine
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
This site allows access to a MEDLINE database of more than 9 million
references to articles published in 3900 biomedical journals available free
of charge on the World Wide Web. Two Web-based products, PubMed and
Internet
Grateful Med, provide this access. A service called Loansome doc is also
available from this site whereby articles can be downloaded from the web
for
a fee.
MEDLINE Plus
http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
The National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus pages are designed to direct
you to resources containing information that will help you research your
health questions. They are designed for educational use only and are not
intended to replace advice from a health professional.
NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED)
http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/nhsdhp.htm
The NHS Economic Evaluation Database is a database of structured abstracts
of economic evaluations of health care interventions.
PEDro
http://ptwww.cchs.usyd.edu.au/pedro/
PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, is a database of randomised
controlled trials in physiotherapy. It has been developed to give
physiotherapists and others rapid access to abstracts and bibliographic
details of randomised controlled trials in physiotherapy. When complete,
all
trials will be rated for quality, so you will be able to quickly
discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable
and those which are not.
Specialist databases
Ageinfo
http://www.cpa.org.uk/ageinfo/ageinfo.html
This database provides a bibliographic database of over 32,000 books
articles and reports from the specialist collection on Social Gerontology
held at the Centre for Policy on Ageing and detailed information about over
3,500 organisations active in the field of Old Age and Ageing from the
United Kingdom, Europe and World-Wide.
British Nursing Index
http://www.bni.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.html
CINAHL
http://www.cinahl.com/
This site provides information on CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and
Allied Health Literature), but does not provide access to the database.
DIRLINE
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/dirline/
DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online) is the National Library
of Medicine?s online database containing location and descriptive
information about a wide variety of information sources including
organisations, research resources, projects, databases, and electronic
bulletin boards concerned with health and biomedicine.
HealthPromis
http://healthpromis.hea.org.uk/
This is the national health promotion database for England which references
an extensive collection of international, national and local health
promotion information.
HEBS Health Centre
http://www.hebs.scot.nhs.uk/healthcentre/lib/lib.htm
HEBS (Health Education Board for Scotland) this virtual health centre to
promote health by providing members of primary health care teams and
members of the public with advice and information. Included on the site are
databases on health promotions catalogue, leaflets catalogue, statistics
and
support groups.
National Guideline Clearing House
http://www.guidelines.gov/
The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is a public resource for
evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
CSP Outcome Measures Database (National Institute for Clinical Excellence
(NICE) & CSP)
http://www.nice.org.uk
A physiotherapy outcomes databases (encompassed within the NICE database)
set up by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, developed to help
physiotherapists select measures appropriate for their practice. The
database includes generic measures as well as condition specific measures.
Click on 'clinical audit' and 'CLIP database' and follow the instructions
from there.
Rare Disease Clinical Research Database
http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/ord/wwwprot/index.shtml
Produced by the Office of Rare Diseases this is a database of research into
rare diseases that can be searched by keyword. This database can be used to
find out about clinical trials and other studies being undertaken in the
USA.
Recal Information Services
http://www.recal.org.uk/
The National Centre for Training and Education in Prosthetics at the
University of Strathclyde has developed the RECAL Information Service
specialising in the publication of bibliographic guides to the subject
literature in prosthetics, orthotics, physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Rehab Data
http://www.naric.com/naric/search/rhab/index.html
REHABDATA is an American database on disability and rehabilitation. The
main
file, 1993-present, describes over 12,000 documents covering physical,
mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational
rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment,
and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities.
TRIP
http://www.ceres.uwcm.ac.uk/frameset.cfm?section=trip
The Primary Care Clinical Effectiveness Team for Gwent have created the
TRIP
database which provides a single searchable index to 14 evidence based
medicine resources thus providing a one stop link to over 1150 evidence
based topics.
The WISDOM database service
http://wisdom.wellcome.ac.uk/
WISDOM is a suite of databases produced by the Information Service at the
Wellcome Trust. The site comprises of four databases consisting of Sources
of Biomedical research Funding, Biomedical Research Assistant Vacancies,
SPIN (Science Policy Information News) and Information Service Catalogue.
Current Research
Health Technology Assessment Database
http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/htahp.htm
This database contains records of ongoing projects being conducted by
members of the International Network of Agencies for Health Technology
Asssessment (INAHTA) as well as publications reporting completed
technology
assessments carried out by INAHTA members and other technology assessment
organisations.
National Research Register
http://www.doh.gov.uk/research/nrr.htm
http://www.update-software.com/nrronline/NRROpen.htm
The National Research Register (NRR) is a register of ongoing and recently
completed research projects funded by the United Kingdom's National Health
Service. The first release contains information on over 28,000 research
projects, as well as entries from the Medical Research Council's Clinical
trials register, and details on reviews in progress collected by the NHS
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination.
Links to databases
Directory of Databases
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/rosenthal/databases/AM_databases.html
Links to major biomedical bibliographic databases, databases specific to
alternative and complementary medicine, medical pharmaceutical and
scientific databases, traditional medicine databases, therapy or modality
specific databases, researcher/research project databases.
Healthworks Online
http://www.healthworks.co.uk/
This site allows free access to MEDLINE, links to healthworks newsletters,
a
journal library, a CD-ROM shop and links to other organisations.
Trawling the Net : A ScHARR Introduction to Free Databases of Interest to
NHS Staff on the Internet
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/trawling.html
An invaluable site hosted at the School of Health and Related Research
listing a range of databases available on the web. The sources have been
identified as meeting three criteria: (1) they contain material of interest
to staff working in the UK National Health Service, (2) they have some form
of search facility, and (3) they do not require individual passwords or
payments of any kind.
Library Catalogues
British Library Opac
http://opac97.bl.uk
This free service will allow you to find out what material is held in the
major Reference and Document Supply collections of the British Library. The
British Library Healthcare Information Service homepage can be found at
http://www.bl.uk/services/sris
National Library of Medicine Online Catalogue
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locatorplus/
The National Library of Medicine's LOCATORplus, the Library's catalogue of
books, journals, and audiovisuals and access points to other medical
research tools.
The following is a list of free bibliographic databases of relevance to
students and practitioners in community and mental health. I have drawn
substantially on the previous work of Andrew Booth of ScHARR in compiling
it. These sources all include at least some published journal literature.
Most are searchable, rather than just browsable. I have excluded library
catalogues and full-text sources relating specifically to evidence based
practice; these are documented exhaustively in Andrew Booth's Netting the
Evidence
AgeInfo
A limited version of the database: covers policy and welfare issues relating
to the elderly
http://www.cpa.org.uk/ageinfo/ageinfo.html
AIDSLINE/AIDSDRUGS/AIDSTRIALS
The NLM's HIV/AIDS databases
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
American Psychoanalytic Association: Jourlit and Bookrev
Huge bibliographies of psychoanalytic journal articles, books and book
reviews
http://www.apsa.org/lit/index.htm
BiblioSleep
A bibliography of papers on sleep and related subjects
http://www.websciences.org/bibliosleep/
Bioethicsline
An NLM database of published literature related to bioethics
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
CHID - the Combined Health Information Database
A US database of health promotion/education materials and initiatives
http://chid.nih.gov/welcome/welcome.html
Cochrane Library
Includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, DARE (see below) and
the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register.
http://www.update-software.com/cochrane.htm
Register free for full-text access at
http://www.update-software.com/clibhome/lonreg.htm
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness: DARE
http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/welcome.html
English National Board Health Care Database
Journal articles, books, grey literature, audiovisual material related to
nursing, midwifery and health visiting
http://www.enb.org.uk/hcd.htm
Education Online
A UK education database: not huge, but useful
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/BEID.html
ERIC
The world's largest source of education information: documents and journal
articles
http://askeric.org/Eric/
ETOH: the National Institute on Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
database
Bibliographic resources (US) on alcohol and alcohol misuse
http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/
European Clearing House on Health Systems Reform Literature and Research
Database
Published and grey literature on health services and health policy in a
European context
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/nuffield/infoservices/ECHHSR/dbase.html
FindArticles.com
Free access to full text of professional journals in many fields,
commercially sponsored. A search on "Asperger" retrieved material from BMJ
and Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. A
good alternative to the Northern Light Special Collection
http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml
Health Promotion Information Centre: HealthPromis
An extensive searchable collection of books, statistical data, research
reports, journal articles, and other resources on health promotion. Includes
other specialist health promotion databases which can be searched separately
within HealthPromis:
Black and minority ethnic groups
Learning disabilities
Older people
Young people
HEA research publications
http://www.hea.org/hpic/index.html
HealthSTAR
The NLM's health service management database. Its coverage is comprehensive,
but there is a strong US bias.
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA)
Contains abstracts of assessments of health technologies produced by INAHTA
and other agencies
http://agatha.york.ac.uk/welcome.htm
Links to Psychological Journals: Armin Guenther's list
An index of 1600+ online psychology and social science journals; can be used
to locate articles online
http://www.wiso.uni-augsburg.de/sozio/hartmann/psycho/welcome.html
HEBSWEB
Another useful health promotion database (journal articles etc.) from the
Health Education Board for Scotland
http://www.hebs.scot.nhs.uk/pro.htm
MEDLINE
Medical journal article database produced by the National Library of
Medicine (U.S.) since 1996. Accessible via two alternative interfaces:
PubMed and Grateful Med, at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases.html
NHS Economic Evaluation Database (EED)
A database of structured abstracts of economic evaluations of health care
interventions
http://agatha.york.ac.uk/welcome.htm
OPAL: Online Psychology Article Listing
A small database of psychology articles
http://psych-www.colorado.edu:591/opal/
Outcomes Literature Database
Covers materials relevant to the study and development of methods of
assessing changes in health status in repines to health or social care
interventions. Includes grey and published literature. Primarily UK in focus
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/nuffield/inforservices/UKCH/child.html
PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence Database
An initiative of the Centre for Evidence Based Physiotherapy (CEBP).
Provides access to bibliographic details of randomised controlled trials in
physiotherapy
http://ptwww.cchs.usyd.edu.au/pedro/
PIE Online: Policy Information Exchange
American database of primary sources on mental health policy and services
http://pie.org/mimhweb/pie/pie.asp
PILOTS (Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome)
Index to worldwide literature on PTSD and other sequelae of trauma
http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/ptsd
Southampton University Nursing Bibliographies
A wide range of bibliographies on nursing subjects, regularly updated
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~library/nursing/index.shtml
SPIN - Science Policy Information News database
Produced by the Wellcome Institute. Contains summaries of articles related
to science policy and the public understanding of science from over 150
journals and newspapers
http://wisdom.wellcome.ac.uk/wisdom/spinhome.html
UnCover
Database of articles from scholarly journals on a wide range of subjects:
lots of health sciences content. Some available full text for $10 each via
fax using the UnCover Reveal service
http://uncweb.carl.org/
Catherine Ebenezer
Librarian
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
108 Landor Road
Stockwell
London SW9 9NT
020 7411 6336
Faciendi multos libros non est finis
28/2/2000
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