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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