MEDLINE currently contains over 16 million references to journal articles from the 1950s to the present. Currently 5,200 journals in 37 languages are indexed.
Cinahl provides authoritative coverage of the journal literature related to nursing and allied health.
In addition to MEDLINE and EMBASE, which are generally considered to be the key international general healthcare databases, many countries and regions produce electronic bibliographic databases that concentrate on the literature produced in those regions, and which often include journals and other literature not indexed elsewhere. Access to many of these databases is available free of charge on the internet. Others are only available by subscription or on a ‘pay-as-you-go’ basis.
Africa: African Index Medicus
Australia: Australasian Medical Index (fee-based)
China: Chinese Biomedical Literature database (in Chinese)
Eastern Mediterranean:Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterreanian region
Europe: PASCAL (fee-based)
India: IndMED
Korea: KoreaMed
Latin America and the Caribbean: LILACS
South-East Asia: Index Medicus for the South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR)
Ukraine and the Russian Federation: Panteleimon
Western Pacific: Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM)
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