Further to Keith's message the URL for Bioline International he gave is
not in fact for the current site. If you look at a issue listing of any
of the journals on http://bioline.bdt.org.br/ you will find that none
have been added since August 2000. The staff at the Reference Center on
Environmental Information in Brazil who manage the server had to move to
other premises around this time. The web site moved with them and it is
now can be found at http://www.bioline.org.br/ - homepage (updated May
23, 2002) http://www.bioline.org.br/journals/ - goes straight to the
list of journals covered by the database. Unfortunately the 'old' site
has not been dismantled which leads to some confusion.
I'm currently working on my MSc dissertation which is an assessment of
the use made of the Bioline International site. I'm analysing the
logfiles of the 'old' site as those of the 'new' were unavailable to me
because of the switch.
Regards
Dorothy McGinley
Librarian, Postgraduate Library, Victoria Hospital, Hayfield Road,
Kirkcaldy, KY2 5AH
Mon & Fri 1pm - 5pm; Tues & Wed 10.30am - 5pm
Tel: 01592 643355 ext 8790
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From: Keith Nockels [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 24 May 2002 10:41
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Systematic reviews by/from developing countries: findings
Dear All,
Apologies for cross posting.
Recently I asked for suggestions of where to find systematic reviews
from
or about the two thirds world. I had many useful suggestions for where
to
find health information in general relating to the two thirds world, and
I
summarise these suggestions below.
Many thanks to all who replied. Although I knew about some of the
sources
mentioned, there was a lot of new information.
Here are the suggestions:
SumSearch http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/searchform4.htm
HELMIS (part of HMIC). Discontinued in 1998, but specialised in health
services in developing countries. Details at
http://www.silverplatter.com/catalog/hmic.htm
WHO's Reproductive Health Library, which covers systematic
reviews. Available on CD ROM:
http://www.update-software.com/RHL/default.HTM
World Health Organization, Safe motherhood initiative
Popline is a free web based bibliographic database of published material
focussing on reproductive health in developing countries:
http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/
African Index Medicus:
ttp://www.who.int/library/country/regional/aim/index.en.shtml and other
local index medicuses available through WHO and Health InterNetwork
site.
CAB Health. Details at http://www.silverplatter.com/catalog/cahe.htm or
http://www.cabi-publishing.org/Products/Database/Health/Index.asp
MIDIRS (midwifery). Database available on subscription, and a selection
of
records available free through the Midwife portal of the National
Electronic Library for Health at
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/midwife/default.asp
ExtraMed (full text of 300 biomedical journals from the two thirds
world). Details at http://www.iwsp.org/ExtraMED.htm
HINARI - Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
www.healthinternetwork.net A collection of full text journals,
involving
the WHO and six major biomedical publishers. Abstracts available free,
full text available free in UK if institution subscribes to the journal
in
electronic form. Users in the two thirds world (there is a list of
countries) can register for free access to all full text.
AJOL - African Journals on Line
www.inasp.org.uk/ajol/
Searching this database and the abstracts is free, but full text is only
free to countries in the PERI scheme.
BIOLINE
http://bioline.bdt.org.br/ - homepage.
http://bioline.bdt.org.br/journals/ - goes straight to the list of
journals
covered by the database
On a first visit go through their homepage. It is informative and
clearly
written. Bioline is a not for profit, international initiative to
publish
journals from developing countries electronically. All the reports and
all
the abstracts, newsletters except one are free. Full text is available
on
payment.
JOURNAL SERVER TRUST
http://journalserver.org
This also covers peer reviewed journals published in developing
countries,
based at Trinity College Oxford. I hopes to be fully functioning with
full
text at end of 2002. You can see the journals
covered at <journalserver.org/journals/index php>
Not a 'database', INASP Health Links is a Gateway to selected web sites
of
interest to health professionals in developing countries. The site
includes
a section on maternal and reproductive health, with links to around 20
related URLs. INASP Health Links also contains sections on
'Bibliographic
databases, abstracts and trials databases', 'Evidence-Based Medicine'
and
many others, all with a focus on health information needs in developing
countries. The URL is: www.inasp.info/links/health
Uganda Ministry of Health http://www.health.go.ug
Keith Nockels
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