Search Engines For Medical Literature

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RELEVANT MEDICAL DATABASES AND SEARCH ENGINES FOR
PERIODIC LITERATURE SCREENING
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MEDICAL LITERATURE SEARCH ENGINE
A medical literature search engine is a
centralized browser-based platform with
literature related to any of the medical
subjects.
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HOW TO FIND A MEDICAL JOURNAL SEARCH ENGINE
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Search engines are programmed to be connected
with the archives of published literature that
are stored inside online subject-specific
academic databases like the medical literature
database.
Huge databases of medical articles are indexed
with millions of journals from all over the
world. A single database cannot provide all the
medical literature.
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EMBASE
Owned by Elsevier with more than 29 million
records
DATABASES USED BY POPULAR MEDICAL SEARCH ENGINES
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MEDLINE

• Over 22 million biomedical published papers can
  be found in this library

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PsycINFO

• More than 3.5 million collections available.

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MEDLINEPLUS
National Institutes of Health's Web site Produced
by the National Library of Medicine US.

• COCHRANE DATABASE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS (CDSR)

INDMED
National Database of Indian Medical Journals.
LILACS
An on-line bibliographic database  in  medicine 
and health sciences, maintained by the Latin
American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences
Information. 
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AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL INDEX
Database that indexes and abstracts articles from
over 160 Australian health and medical journals.

• COCHRANE DATABASE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS (CDSR)

CBM
Chinese biomedical literature database.
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SEARCH ENGINES FOR MEDICAL WRITING

• PUBMED

• Free online collection of medical journal papers
  collected by the National Library of
  Medicine(NLM) of the United States National
  Institutes of Health.
• 25 million documents and scans a large number of
  databases including MEDLINE and other NLM
  journals like MedlinePlus.
• Filter topic in PubMed by typing search terms to
  the MeSH (Medical subject text heading).
• Provides PMC citation and NCBI Bookshelf.

• OVID

• Ovid is analogous to PubMed.
• It has a clear edge over PubMed as Ovid can
  search for more number of databases including
  MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Database of
  Systematic Reviews (CDSR).
• Wider spectrum of search can be conducted which
  will naturally provide more results and therefore
  more evidence for health writing.

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• WEB OF SCIENCE

• Web of Science holds a huge database of Thomson
  Reuterss 8,700 international scientific journals
  encompasing more than 250 fields in science,
  arts, humanities, and social science
• A large number of international publications
  especially on guidelines or protocols from Asia
  in this archive but need a subscription to access
  the papers.
• Web of Science Core Collection is very consistent
  with its content selection and ensures
  high-quality journals.
• Provides indexes that cover the content
  thoroughly with a complete view including
  citation.

• SCIENCE DIRECT

• Full-text scientific respiratory proved to be of
  immense help to the millions of medical writers
  with detailed knowledge not limiting only to the
  abstract.
• Allows to find articles owned by academic
  publisher Elsevier in over 3,800 science,
  technology and medicine papers.

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• SPRINGER LINK

• This portal is similar to Science Direct.
• It has access to more than 5 million articles in
  journals operated by publisher Springer.

• SCOPUS

• Scopus is a hefty database of more than 60
  million peer-reviewed literature and is also
  owned by Elsevier.
• Scopus ties up with EMBASE and MEDLINE databases
  to search collections for journal articles.
• Provides full-text articles access to more than
  4200 full-text journals but some of these may
  need login via subscription.

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• COCHRANE LIBRARY

• Cochrane Library used for searching systematic
  reviews or meta-analyses.
• Gives results from Cochrane Database of
  Systematic Reviews (CDSR) and also controls
  trials in MEDLINE and EMBASE, Cochrane protocols
  and editorials.
• Cochrane library can be accessed only through
  subscription. However, many open-access
  editorials may also be retrieved, based on the
  timing of publishing of those articles.

• GOOGLE SCHOLAR

• Google Scholar is a free engine indexing medical
  journal articles from a diversified set of
  databases.

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OPEN-ACCESS SEARCH ENGINES
Directory of Open Access Journals
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• The database has nearly 10,000 open-access
  journals.

OpenMD.com
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• Multi-source information search engine and state
  repository.

Open Science Directory
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About 13,000 open-access scientific journals
available.
Trip Database
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• A medical search engine where one can filter
  searches based on the type of evidence.

Free Medical Journals
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• Indexes about 4832 peer-reviewed open-access
  journals.

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CONCLUSION

• It is always recommended to refer these search
  engines while writing medical research papers or
  articles.

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