Databases for the

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Databases for the
Biomedical Library EAHIL WORSHOP Stefania
Scala Sales Manager EBSCO Italia
Welcome
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ONLINE JOURNALS
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Why do publishers of medical journals favor
EBSCO?

• EBSCO is the worlds largest intermediary
  between
• libraries and publishers and is a trusted friend
  to
• most academic publishers
• EBSCO is the only aggregator who shares the same
  
• core business as publishers (print and e-journal
  
• subscriptions) this makes publishers feel more
  at
• ease in licensing their content
• Other aggregators have no financial penalty when
  customers cancel journal subscriptions as a
  result of full text database access. This is a
  major concern for publishers.
• EBSCO has been careful to alert its customers
  to the
• dangers of canceling print subscriptions and
  relying only
• on database access this too has been noticed
• and appreciated by publishers

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Why do publishers of medical journals favor
EBSCO?

• EBSCO has made a massive investment to protect
  its customers from turmoil and to add many new
  journals some scholarly
  publishers are motivated by profit and have
  responded very well to this unprecedented
  initiative
• Other publishers, particularly many scholarly
  societies, are motivated less by
  profit and more by exposure of their
  journals to professors and researchers in markets
  they have been unable to reach
  directly
• EBSCOs full text databases are available in
  every university in nearly fifty nations,
  including many of those most desired by societies
  (such as Russia, Poland, South Africa, etc.)
• EBSCO is expanding backfiles for many
  publications and providing electronic content
  back to publishers as a service

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MEDLINE with MeSHand EBSCO SmartLinks

• 4,300 journals indexed and abstracted by
  theNational Library of Medicine dating back to
  1966
• AIDSLINE, BioETHICSLINE, HealthSTAR
  andPreMEDLINE included
• Links to Biomedical Reference Collections with
  hundredsof full text journals
• Links to e-journal subscriptions via EBSCO
  Onlineand/or CrossRef

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Biomedical Reference Collections Full text
companions for MEDLINE
Journals Available in PDF
Total Full Text Journals
Comprehensive Edition 475 460 Expanded
Edition 200 195 Basic Edition 100 98
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Biomedical Reference Collection Offering PDFs
for High Quality Journals
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Biomedical Reference Collection Offering PDFs
for High Quality Journals
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Biomedical Reference CollectionsInclude
Expanding PDF Backfiles

• Addiction (1989)
• American Journal of Public Health (1975)
• Archives of Environmental Health (1975)
• BMJ British Medical Journal (1987)
• International Journal of Neuroscience (1975)
• Journal of Learning Disabilities (1975)
• Journal of Rehabilitation (1975)
• Journal of Sex Research (1975)

The majority of back issues will be available
by March 2002.
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CINAHL with EBSCO SmartLinks

• 1,224 active journals indexed and
  abstracteddating back to 1982
• Full text for 40 journals and 954 government
  publications are provided
• Links to Nursing Allied Health Collections with
  hundreds of full text journals
• Links to e-journal subscriptions via EBSCO
  Online and/or CrossRef

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Nursing Allied Health Collections Full text
companions for CINAHL
Journals Available in PDF
Total Full Text Journals
Comprehensive Edition 300 276 Expanded
Edition 200 187 Basic Edition 100 97
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Nursing Allied Health Collections Offering
PDFs for High Quality Journals
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Nursing Allied Health Collections Offering
PDFs for High Quality Journals
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Nursing Allied Health CollectionsInclude
Expanding PDF Backfiles

• Nursing (1975)
• RN (1975)
• Western Journal of Nursing Research (1975)

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PsycINFO withEBSCO SmartLinks

• More than 1,500 journals indexed and abstracted
  dating back to 1887
• Covers the field of psychology and psychological
  aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine,
  psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education,
  pharmacology, physiology, linguistics,
  anthropology, business and law
• Links to Psychology Behavioral Sciences
  Collection with hundreds of full text journals
• Links to e-journal subscriptions via EBSCO
  Online and/or CrossRef

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Psychology BehavioralSciences Collection

• Includes full text for more than 500
  journals(more than 90 have PDFs)
• Covers many of the leading journals in clinical
  psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience

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Psychology BehavioralSciences Collection
Includes Expanding PDF Backfiles

• American Behavioral Scientist (1966)
• American Journal of Psychotherapy (1975)
• British Journal of Psychology (1975)
• International Journal of Psychology (1975)
• Journal of Communication (1975)
• Journal of General Psychology (1975)
• Journal of Genetic Psychology (1975)
• Journal of Psychology (1975)
• Journal of Social Psychology (1969)

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Summary of Full Text Available for MEDLINE,
CINAHL PsycINFO
Combined of Unique Full Text Journals
of E-Journals via CrossRef
of E-Journals via EBSCO Online
of Full Text Journals via EBSCOs Full Text
Databases
MEDLINE 400 1,032 753 1,662 CINAHL 300 200 125 45
0 PsycINFO 503 547 249 936
CINAHL also includes 40 additional full text
journals provided by CINAHL Information Systems
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Additional BiomedicalDatabases with EBSCO
SmartLinks
Combined of Unique Full Text Journals
of E-Journals via CrossRef
of E-Journals via EBSCO Online
of Full Text Journals via EBSCOs Full Text
Databases
Biological Abstracts 267 882 586 1,315 CANCERLIT 3
42 920 671 1,467 e-psyche 503 607 267 996 SportDIS
CUS 295 215 136 506
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The Cochrane Library - Evidence Based Medicine

• The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• Cochrane Reviews are full text articles reviewing
  the effects of healthcare. The reviews are highly
  structured and systematic, with evidence included
  or excluded on the basis of explicit quality
  criteria, to minimize bias.
• Data are often combined statistically (with
  meta-analysis) to increase the power of the
  findings of numerous studies, each too small to
  produce reliable results individually.
• Cochrane reviews are regularly updated as new
  evidence emerges, and in response to comments and
  criticisms

• The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of
  Effectiveness
• The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register

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Health Administration Databases

• Health Business Elite
• Health Business Elite provides comprehensive
  journal content detailing all aspects of health
  care administration and other non-clinical
  aspects of health care institution management.
• Topics covered include hospital management,
  hospital administration, marketing, human
  resources, computer technology, facilities
  management and insurance
• Health Business Elite contains full text content
  from over 400 journals
• Health Business FullTEXT
• Health Business FullTEXT provides full text
  coverage of 140well-known administrative
  journals.
• This subset of Health Business Elite includes
  publications covering topics such as staffing,
  health care regulation, health care facilities
  management, marketing, finance and more.

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Health Business from EBSCOOffering High Quality
Journals
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Alternative Health Databases

• Alternative Medicine (AMED)
• More than 510 journals indexed and abstracted
  datingback to 1985
• Covers complementary/alternative medicine,
  physiotherapy, occupational therapy,
  rehabilitation, podiatry, palliative care, and
  speech language therapy

• Alt-HealthWatch
• Full text from more than 170 international
  peer-reviewed and professional journals,
  magazines, reports, proceedings, and association
  and consumer newsletters, most from 1990 to the
  present, plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets,
  special reports, original research and book
  excerpts all in full text
• Indexing by 225 modalities and therapies, 11
  publication types and 16 article types

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• Let our software tell your users if you hold the
  journal locally in your print collection
• Let our administrative module provide you with
  statistics on usage (of databases and/or
  journals)
• Use our persistent links to allow your authorized
  users to add links to EBSCOhost articles onto Web
  pages
• Set up links to your Web-based OPAC
• In addition to links to e-journals (via EBSCO
  Online and/or CrossRef), EBSCO offers an
  optional link to document delivery via Infotrieve

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Linking Overview Diagram
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