We've just been told about this facility, which for anyone trying to search
for materials that are not in 'pubmed', because they are 'too specialist' or
relate to countries from which minority migrants come, rather than 'here'
(wherever that may be), seems to be useful. We've certainly found IndMed
very useful.
Dr Mark R D Johnson
Professor of Diversity in Health & Social Care
Mary Seacole Research Centre
De Montfort University
ESRC Centre for Evidence in Ethnicity, Health & Diversity
http://users.wbs.ac.uk/group/ceehd
(*Originator) "Feddern, Tanya" <[log in to unmask]> 8/4/04
> ***cross-posted***
> Hi, everyone. The World Health Organization (WHO) has four regional
> index medicus databases to cover the gaps in MEDLINE, EMBASE, and other
> such bibliographic databases. Searching them is free. These databases
> also include allied health citations; I came across an interesting
> occupational therapy article indexed in one of these databases that
> wasn't indexed in PubMed or CINAHL.
>
> WHO: Regional Databases
> http://www.who.int/library/country/regional/index.en.shtml
> The Regional Databases are listed towards the bottom left of the
> screen: Africa (seems to be down or moved), Eastern Mediterranean (the
> Regional Databases link moved so use this URL for Eastern Mediterranean
> http://www.emro.who.int/his/VHSL/Index.htm), Latin America and
> Caribbean, and South-East Asia
>
> Also bookmark IndMed, Indian Medlars Centre: http://indmed.nic.in/ I
> did a search on Occupational Therapy in WHO's South-East Asia Index
> Medicus and got 9 hits and got 22 hits using IndMed. The Indian Journal
> of Occupational Therapy, which is indexed in IndMed, is not indexed in
> PubMed, CINAHL, or WHO's South-East Asia Index Medicus.
>
> Please feel free to pass this email along.
> Tanya Feddern, MLIS, AHIP, MOT, OTR/L
> http://www.geocities.com/nqiya/EBMbib.html
> http://www.geocities.com/nqiya/index.html
> Evidence-Based Medicine Assistant Professor; Reference & Education
> Services
> Librarian University of Miami School of Medicine, Louis Calder Memorial
> Library
>
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