Relevant Medical Databases and Search Engines for Literature Screening

1. Research Paper RELEVANT MEDICAL DATABASES AND SEARCH ENGINES FOR PERIODIC LITERATURESCREENING Tags: Pepgra | Medical Literature | Medical Journal Articles | Medical Research Paper Hypothesis Consulation | Protocol Writing & Review | Analysis | Training | Resource Planing | Regulatory Counsel | Randomization Copyright © 2019 Pepgra. All rights reserved

2. MEDICAL LITERATURE SEARCH ENGINE A medical literature search engine is a centralized browser-based platform with literature related to any of the medical subjects. Hypothesis Consulation | Protocol Writing & Review | Analysis | Training | Resource Planing | Regulatory Counsel | Randomization Copyright © 2019 Pepgra. All rights reserved

3. HOW TO FIND A MEDICAL JOURNAL SEARCH ENGINE • 01 • 02 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. Hypothesis Consulation | Protocol Writing & Review | Analysis | Training | Resource Planing | Regulatory Counsel | Randomization Copyright © 2019 Pepgra. All rights reserved

4. 01 • EMBASE • Owned by Elsevier with more than 29 million records • DATABASES USED BY POPULAR MEDICAL SEARCH ENGINES • 02 • MEDLINE • Over 22 million biomedical published papers can be found in this library • 03 • PsycINFO • More than 3.5 million collections available. Hypothesis Consulation | Protocol Writing & Review | Analysis | Training | Resource Planing | Regulatory Counsel | Randomization Copyright © 2019 Pepgra. All rights reserved

5. 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 Anon-line bibliographic databasein medicine  and health sciences, maintained by theLatin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information.  • CONTD... Hypothesis Consulation | Protocol Writing & Review | Analysis | Training | Resource Planing | Regulatory Counsel | Randomization Copyright © 2019 Pepgra. All rights reserved

6. 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. Hypothesis Consulation | Protocol Writing & Review | Analysis | Training | Resource Planing | Regulatory Counsel | Randomization Copyright © 2019 Pepgra. All rights reserved

7. 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. Hypothesis Consulation | Protocol Writing & Review | Analysis | Training | Resource Planing | Regulatory Counsel | Randomization Copyright © 2019 Pepgra. All rights reserved

8. WEB OF SCIENCE • Web of Science holds a huge database of Thomson Reuters’s 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. Hypothesis Consulation | Protocol Writing & Review | Analysis | Training | Resource Planing | Regulatory Counsel | Randomization Copyright © 2019 Pepgra. All rights reserved

9. 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. Hypothesis Consulation | Protocol Writing & Review | Analysis | Training | Resource Planing | Regulatory Counsel | Randomization Copyright © 2019 Pepgra. All rights reserved

10. 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. Hypothesis Consulation | Protocol Writing & Review | Analysis | Training | Resource Planing | Regulatory Counsel | Randomization Copyright © 2019 Pepgra. All rights reserved

11. OPEN-ACCESS SEARCH ENGINES • Directory of Open Access Journals • 01 • The database has nearly 10,000 open-access journals. • OpenMD.com • 04 • Multi-source information search engine and state repository. • Open Science Directory • 02 • About 13,000 open-access scientific journals available. • Trip Database • 05 • A medical search engine where one can filter searches based on the type of evidence. • Free Medical Journals • 03 • Indexes about 4832 peer-reviewed open-access journals. Hypothesis Consulation | Protocol Writing & Review | Analysis | Training | Resource Planing | Regulatory Counsel | Randomization Copyright © 2019 Pepgra. All rights reserved

12. CONCLUSION • It is always recommended to refer these search engines while writingmedical research papersor articles. Hypothesis Consulation | Protocol Writing & Review | Analysis | Training | Resource Planing | Regulatory Counsel | Randomization Copyright © 2019 Pepgra. All rights reserved

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