Medical Databases Afshin Ostovar 2162022 1 MEDLINE Medline

Medical Databases Afshin Ostovar 2/16/2022 1

MEDLINE • Medline is a vast source of medical information, covering the whole field of medicine including dentistry, veterinary medicine and medical psychology. • Author abstracts are provided for about 80% of the items in the database. • Subject searching is facilitated by means of the NLM's Medical Subject Headings. 2/16/2022 13

MEDLINE • The oldest part of Medline, covering the period 19491965, contains no abstracts or author affiliations. • Most of these older records are now (2008) indexed with current Me. SH terminology, but there a few which have not yet been brought up to date, and these are indicated as 'Old. Medline'. 2/16/2022 14

MEDLINE • There are six different types of status of Medline documents: – 'Medline' or complete, fully indexed document – 'Old. Medline‘ documents (1949 -1965), – Publisher – In-Process – 'In-Data-Review' documents - the latest few weeks of the literature, before they have been fully indexed for Medline; – 'Pub. Med-not-Medline' records - those which are considered to fall out of the scope of Medline's selection criteria 2/16/2022 15

MEDLINE • In-Process and In-Data-Review documents are generally online within a few days of publication. • About 30% of journals are fully indexed within 30 days, and 60% are indexed within 60 days. 2/16/2022 16

MEDLINE Language English Coverage 5, 000 journals /more than 70 countries Updates Daily with annual refresh Thesaurus Me. SH Publisher National Library of Medicine (NLM) 2/16/2022 17

EMBASE • A bibliographic database in the area of biomedicine, is the most current biomedical database available today. • Articles appear in the database, on average, within two weeks of receipt of the original journal. • Each record contains the full bibliographic citation, indexing terms, and other information about the original article; 80% of all citations in EMBASE include author-written abstracts. 2/16/2022 18

EMBASE • About 580, 000 abstracts and citations are added annually and each record is classified and indexed by medical research specialists who assign terms in accordance with EMTREE. • EMTREE is Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus consisting of more than 50, 000 terms and nearly 210, 000 synonyms. • Beginning in 2010, updates included sources that were previously available only in Medline. In addition, an archive of some 7 M Medline-derived records was added to the files. 2/16/2022 19

EMBASE (Subject Coverage) • EMBASE covers about 7, 000 journals from approximately 70 countries and the following areas: • Drug Research, Pharmacology, Pharmacoeconomics, Pharmaceutics, and Toxicology • Human Medicine (Clinical and Experimental) • Basic Biological Research • Health Policy and Management • Public, Occupational, and Environmental Health • Substance Dependence and Abuse • Psychiatry • Forensic Science • Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation 2/16/2022 20

EMBASE Language English/Non-English Coverage About 7000 journal articles Updates Daily/ Thesaurus EMTREE Publisher Elsevier B. V. 2/16/2022 21

EMBASE • Document Types Indexed • Conferences, Symposia, Meetings • Journal Articles • Books • Geographic Coverage: International • Sponsor: Elsevier B. V. 2/16/2022 23

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The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) • Sponsor: U. S. Department of Education. • Content: education-related documents and journal articles. • Geographic Coverage: International 2/16/2022 34

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) • Dates Covered: 1966 to the present • File Size: More than 1. 3 M records as of September 2009 • Update Frequency: Monthly (Approximately 3, 000 per update) • 2/16/2022 35

ERIC, Subject Coverage • • • • Adult, Career, and Vocational Education Counseling and Personnel Services Elementary and Early Childhood Educational Management Handicapped and Gifted Children Higher Education and Junior Colleges Information Resources Languages and Linguistics Reading and Communication Skills Rural and Urban Education, Small Schools Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education Social Studies and Social Science Education Teacher Education Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation 2/16/2022 36

Psyc. INFO, Psychological Abstracts • Provides access to the international literature in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences, • Records for virtually all journal articles are accompanied by abstracts. • All records from 1967 to the present are indexed using controlled vocabulary from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. 2/16/2022 37

Psyc. INFO, Psychological Abstracts • Dates Covered: 1887 to the present • File Size: More than 2. 7 M records as of September 2009 • Update Frequency: Weekly (approximately 1, 500 records per update) • Geographic Coverage: International • Provider: American Psychological Association 2/16/2022 38

Psyc. INFO, Psychological Abstracts • Contents: citations and abstracts for journal articles, book chapters, reports, and dissertations from Dissertation Abstracts International. • Journal material represents substantive articles selected on the basis of relevance to psychology from more than 1, 700 journals published throughout the world in more than 25 languages. 2/16/2022 39

Subject Coverage • • • • Applied Psychology Communication Systems Developmental Psychology Educational Psychology Experimental Human and Animal Psychology Personality Physical and Psychological Disorders Physiological Psychology and Neuroscience Professional Personnel and Issues Psychometrics Social Psychology Social Processes and Issues Sports Psychology and Leisure Treatment and Prevention 2/16/2022 40

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Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) • DARE is a Full Text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals. • DARE is produced by the National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at the University of York, England, and consists of structured abstracts of systematic reviews from all over the world. • DARE records cover topics such as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment. 2/16/2022 43

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Dissertation Abstracts Online • A definitive subject, title, and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. • Selected Masters theses have been included since 1962. • In addition, since 1988, the database includes citations for dissertations from 50 British universities that have been collected by and filmed at The British Document Supply Centre. 2/16/2022 56

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SIGLE (System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe) Examples of grey literature include: – Technical or research reports – Doctoral dissertations – Some conference papers and pre-prints – Some official publications – Discussion and policy papers 2/16/2022 62

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