Esp Appendix 9.4 Examples of databases

Databases of published literature

Nursing and allied health

 -   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):

(www.cinahl.com/)

Primary care

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

(www.essentialevidenceplus.com/)

Social science, psychology  and psychiatry

 -   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 Abstracts / BIOSIS Previews:

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

-   Chemical Abstracts:

(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 Health:

Available via: (www.cabi.org)

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

 -   Google Scholar (free on the internet):

(scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search)

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

(free on the 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:

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:

isiwebofknowledge.com/

 -   Scopus:

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

Theses specific databases

 -  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

www.theses.com/

-   DissOnline: indexes 50,000 German dissertations:

www.dissonline.de/

Grey literature databases

 -   MedNar

mednar.com/mednar

 -   OpenSIGLE

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

 -   National Technical Information  Service (NTIS)

www.ntis.gov/

 -   WorldWideScience.org

worldwidescience.org/index