African Index Medicus (AIM)
AIM is an international index to African health literature and information sources. It is a compilation of national databases with abstracts and a search engine. The project is sponsored by the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) with the technical support of the World Health Organization. http://whqwings.who.int/RIS/RISWEB.isa

BIREME: Database Search
This site contains 13 health-related databases for the Latin American and Caribbean region. The access and search tools are in English, Spanish and Portuguese. http://www.bireme.br/bvs/I/ibd.htm

Combined Health Information Database
CHID is a bibliographic database produced by the National Institutes of Health, U.S. and other health-related agencies of the U.S. Government. It provides access to full-text health promotion and health education resources. The site includes a keyword search engine. http://chid.nih.gov/

Current Controlled Trials
The Current Controlled Trials site is a tool to increase the availability, and promote the exchange, of information about ongoing randomized controlled trials worldwide. It contains two clinical trials resources: ISRCTN Register, a database of randomized controlled trials with an International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number (ISRCTN) and metaRegister of Controlled Trials (mRCT), an International database combining registers of ongoing randomised controlled trials in all areas of healthcare. The site is a resource of information on research within developing countries and includes all trials approved by the WHO ethics review board. http://www.controlled-trials.com/

Index Medicus for South East Asia Region (IMSEAR)
IMSEAR is a database of citations and abstracts to articles published in selected journals of the WHO South East Asia Region. The database can be searched by title, author, and subject categories. It is maintained by the WHO Regional Office for South East Asia. http://library.whosea.org/regional/

Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (IMEMR)
IMEMR is an international index to Eastern Mediterranean health literature. It is a database of citations and abstracts to articles published in regional journals. The site is maintained by the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region Library Network. http://www.emro.who.int/HIS/VHSL/Imemr.htm

Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS)
LILACS is a database that contains health related literature published in the region since 1982. It has keyword access to abstracts and citations for articles from 670 regional journals plus documents, books, scientific reports and governmental publications. The database is maintained by BIREME. the site is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese but the user must enter LILACS from the initial page http://www.bireme.br/bvs/I/ihome.htm in the specific language. http://bases.bireme.br/cgi-bin/wxislind.exe/iah/online/?IsisScript=iah/iah.xis&base=LILACS&lang=i

List of Serials Indexed for Online Users
This is a list of complete bibliographic information on serials cited MEDLINE and HealthSTAR. The site is maintained by the National Library of Medicine, U.S. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lsiou.html

National Inquiry Services Centre, South Africa (NISC-SA)
BiblioLine offers 30-day trials to several databases, including African Health Anthology, at no cost to institutional libraries or research centres. http://www.nisc.com

pm2mail
pm2mail (PUBMED-TO-EMAIL) is a free software that allows email access to PUBMED and to full-text articles of scientific and medical journals indexed by Medline. This is a useful tool for all professionals with slow access to the Internet. http://ipath.krot.org/cgi-bin/pm2mail/pm2mail

Practical Pointers
Practical Pointers provides 'exit abstracts' of articles from some of the world's core medical journals: New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Archives of Internal Medicine. http://www.practicalpointers.org

PubMed Retrieval System (MEDLINE)
PubMed is a free search tool to the 9 million citations (1965 onwards) in MEDLINE. It is a service of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine, U.S. Users can search by author, journal title, keyword or ID number. It contains links to several other NLM databases (Nucleotide, Protein, Genome, Structure, PopSet, Taxonomy, OMIM). Via Bireme, the 1993 to date information is searchable in Spanish and Portuguese. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed

SHARED Global SHARing Point Server
Defined as a ‘Health Information System across languages, across data structures, across continents’, the site is divided into three vertical data sources: a database from SHARED network partners by projects and journal articles/abstracts; online journals; and MEDLINE. It contains a multilingual (English, French, Spanish) keyword index. The site is maintained by Scientists for Health and Research for Development, a European based non-governmental organization. http://sharingpoint.shared-global.org/

Source Bibliographic Database: International Health and Disability
This is a bibliographic database that provides access to over 20,000 records on primary health care and disability in developing countries. It is a collaboration between Healthlink Worldwide, Centre for International Child Health, and Handicap International. The site can be searched by keyword, subject, country and region. http://www.asksource.info/index.html

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