WHO Library new web pages

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WHO AFRO Library
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WHO Library Database (WHOLIS)

• WHO document dissemination, provides 45 000
  full-text links to
• technical documents (unrestricted), headquarters
  and regional offices, 1986
• articles in the Bulletin of the World Health
  Organization, 1947
• Weekly Epidemiological Record, 1926
• press materials
• WHO out-of-print publications (in process)
• historical resources
• http//www.who.int/library

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GIFT Global Information Full Text
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Databases References
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Too much information?
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Non- English Literature
Commercial Reports/studies
Mainstream Literature
Grey Literature
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WHO Regional Databases (open access)

• Journal indexes of locally produced information
• Complement the internationally known
  bibliographic databases
• Higher relevance for other developing countries
• South South information sharing
• Important for systematic reviews
• Interesting tid bit, Web of Knowledge (June
  2008) added 700 more titles to its database.
  Guess how many from Africa? 

Only 21!
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Developing Country Health Databases(http//www.wh
o.int/library/country/regional/index.en.shtml)

• Africa
• http//indexmedicus.afro.who.int/
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• http//bases.bvs.br/
• South-East Asia
• http//www.hellis.org
• Eastern Mediterranean
• http//www.emro.who.int/HIS/VHSL/
• Western Pacific
• http//wprim.wpro.who.int/iah/I/index.htm

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The Cochrane Library Systematic Reviews
(paid resource)

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
• Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews
• Cochrane Methodology Register
• Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
• About the Cochrane Collaboration
• Health technology assessment database
• NHS Economic evaluation database

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Should WHO recommend bed nets?
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Public Access to Regional Databases