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Databases of published literature

Nursing and allied health

Bases de datos de literatura publicada

Enfermería y disciplinas de salud aliadas

• Allied and Complementary Medicine (AMED):

• (http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/AMED -The-Allied-and-Complementary-Medicine- Database)

• British Nursing Index (BNI):

• (www.bniplus.co.uk/)

• Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL):

• (http://www.cinahl.com/ )

Primary care

 -   Essential Atención primaria

• Essential Evidence Plus (formerly Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters (InfoPOEMs)):

• (http://www.essentialevidenceplus.com/ )

Social science, psychology  and psychiatry

 -   Applied Ciencias sociales, psicología y psiquiatría

• Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA):

• (http://www.proquest.com/products-services/ASSIA-Applied-Social-Sciences-Index-and- Abstracts.html)

• PsycINFO:

• (www.apa.org/psycinfo/)

• Sociological Abstracts:

• (http://proquest.libguides.com/SocAbs )

Biology and chemistry

 -   Biological Biología y química

• Biological Abstracts / BIOSIS Previews:

• ( http://thomsonreuters.com/biosis-previews/)

• Chemical Abstracts:

• (http://www.cas.org/ )

• Database of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

• Committee for Evidence-based Laboratory Medicine (IFCC C-EBLM database) (contact j.watine@ch- rodez.fr)

International health

 -   Global Salud internacional

• Global Health:

• Available via: (www.cabi.org)

In addition to subject-specific databases, general search engines include:

 -   Google Scholar (free on the internet):

Además de las bases de datos temáticas, los motores de búsqueda generales incluyen:

• Google Scholar (gratis en internet): (scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search)

• Turning Research into Practice (TRIP) database (evidence-based healthcare resource)

• (

• Gratis en internet): (www.tripdatabase.com/)

 “Citation  searching”

 Citation searching is an important and effective adjunct to  database searching and hand searching. Information about these citation indexes is available at: Cochrane handbook

-   Science Citation Index:

"Búsqueda de citas"

La búsqueda de citas es un complemento importante y eficaz de la búsqueda en bases de datos y la búsqueda manual.

Es posible encontrar información sobre estos índices de citas en: Manual Cochrane

• Science Citation Index: scientific.thomson.com/products/sci/

• Social Sciences Citation Index:

• scientific.thomson.com/products/ssci/

• Web of Science:

• scientific.thomson.com/products/wos/

• Web of Knowledge:

• http://isiwebofknowledge.com/

• Scopus:

• http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus

Theses specific databases

 -  ProQuest Bases de datos específicas de tesis

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database:

• www.proquest.co.uk/products_pq/descriptions/pqdt.shtml

• Dissertation Abstracts Online (DIALOG)

• Index to Theses in Great Britain and Ireland

• http://www.theses.com/

• DissOnline: indexes 50,000 German dissertations:

• http://www.dissonline.de/

Grey literature databases

 -   MedNar

Bases de datos de literatura gris

• MedNar mednar.com/mednar

 -   OpenSIGLE

• OpenSIGLE http://www.greynet.org/opensiglerepository.html

• National Technical Information

• Service (NTIS)

• www.ntis.gov/

• http://WorldWideScience.org

• http://worldwidescience.org/index

• Open Grey http://www.opengrey.eu/