Guides: Global Health: Databases

Core Databases

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
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(Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) Provides comprehensive coverage of the English language journal literature related to nursing and the allied health disciplines
Embase Classic + Embase
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drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. There is selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine
Global Health (Current + Archive, 1910-)
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public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology, entomology and mycology in several languages

Global Index Medicus
Provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries.

MEDLINE(R) (OVID) ALL, 1946-
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PubMed (McGill)
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
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Doctoral dissertations and master's theses from 1980 forward.
AGRICOLA
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Agriculture, environment, water (especially irrigation)
CAB Abstracts
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Agriculture, nutrition, food, environment
Web of Science Core Collection (All Indexes)
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Interdisciplinary covering Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM; useful when searching for articles citing an article
Scopus
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Interdisciplinary covering all branches of sciences; useful for searching for articles citing an article you already have

Human Resources for Health (HRH) Global Resource Centre
Global library of human resources for health (HRH) resources focused on developing countries

Additional Databases

ADA Nutrition Care Manual - American Dietetics Association
AgNIC - Agriculture Network Information Center

Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest)
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Technological and engineering aspects of air, water and soil quality, environmental safety, sustainability and energy production.
Library can facilitate negotiating text-mining rights for this database for McGill faculty and students wishing to acquire the rights with their own research funds. Please contact Digital Scholarship Hub
Biological and Agricultural Index Plus (H.W. Wilson) (EBSCO)
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The subscription to this database was not renewed and access has now ended.

Canary Database - Animals as sentinels of human environmental health hazards
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management database (ProQuest) - Includes Health & Safety Science Abstracts, Pollution Abstracts, Toxicology Abstracts, TOXLINE

ERIC - Education Resources Information Center (USDE)
Open database of education research. Access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature indexed from 1966 to the present
FSTA® -the food science resource (Web of Science)
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Pure and applied research in food science, food technology, and food-related nutrition.

(1969-present)

Health Indicators tabulates key health and administrative data at both the federal and provincial levels.
Health Systems Evidence - "Evidence to support policymakers, stakeholders and researchers interested in how to strengthen or reform health systems or in how to get cost-effective programs, services and drugs to those who need them"; email registration required

HealthSTAR (Ovid)
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Note: Starting in 2000, only journal articles have been added to HealthSTAR. For help searching the health services literature, see: 1) PubMed Health Services Research Queries and 2) US National Library of Medicine's Health Services Research and Public Health Information Programs

International Development Research Centre Digital Library - Well indexed collection of documents covering international development including health
Open Science Directory - Free searchable database of the growing collection of articles free in developing countries. This site is provided by EBSCO Information Services.

PAIS Index
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Formerly PAIS International. Global public policy and social issues
PEN : Practice-based Evidence in Nutrition
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TOXLINE
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This database, produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from the core journal literature in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants and mutagens and teratogens. Coverage: 1999 - current. Library can facilitate negotiating text-mining rights for this database for McGill faculty and students wishing to acquire the rights with their own research funds. Please contact Digital Scholarship Hub

UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Use search box (upper left) to find FAO publications

Environmental Science Index (was Water Resources Abstracts)
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Provides in-depth A&I coverage from the environmental science literature and related disciplines. Abstracts and citations are drawn from thousands of peer-reviewed journals, trade titles, conference proceedings, dissertations, and other varied content types. Includes access to TOXLINE. Coverage: 1960 - current. - Library can facilitate negotiating text-mining rights for this database for McGill faculty and students wishing to acquire the rights with their own research funds. Please contact Digital Scholarship Hub
World Bank eLibrary
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The subscription to this resource has not been renewed.

Regional Datababases

Regional Databases

African Index Medicus (AIM) - Can also be searched through the World Health Organization Global Index Medicus or through Africa-Wide Information (under Search Options, select Data Contributor: African Index Medicus)
Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (IMEMR) - Select IMEMR from drop-down; can also be searched through the World Health Organization Global Index Medicus
Index Medicus for South-East Asia (IMSEAR) - Can also be searched through the World Health Organization Global Index Medicus
LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Index Medicus)

LIVIVO
German search portal for life sciences

SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online)
Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM) - Can also be searched through the World Health Organization Global Index Medicus
Global Index Medicus (World Health Organization) - Combined search for regional indexes (AIM, LILACS (AMRO/PAHO), IMEMR, IMSEAR, WPRIM), MEDLINE, WHOLIS (KMS), SciELO

Regional Databases - Multidisciplinary

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies - ABSEES (EBSCO)
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Produced by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Coverage for ABSEES ranges from 1989 to the present.
Africa-Wide Information (Ebsco)
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Produced by NISC South Africa, this resource combines bibliographic databases from around the world to form a multidisciplinary aggregation of extensive coverage of all facets of Africa and African studies. Contains 3.2 million citations and abstracts dating back to the 16th century.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
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Bibliographic database covering principally the areas of humanities and the social sciences on the East, Southeast, and South Asia. Abstracts published worldwide from 1971 to present.
HAPI online
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Search the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) for journal article citations about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics/Latinos in the US
Index Islamicus (Brill)
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International classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world.
PRISMA Database with Hapi Index
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Provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin.
Library can facilitate negotiating text-mining rights for this database for McGill faculty and students wishing to acquire the rights with their own research funds. Please contact Digital Scholarship Hub

Librarians

Multidisciplinary team

April Colosimo, Science

Eamon Duffy, Government Information

Genevieve Gore, Health

Michael David Miller, Economics and International Development

Global Health

Core Databases

Additional Databases

Additional Databases

Regional Datababases

Regional Databases

Regional Databases - Multidisciplinary

Librarians

Multidisciplinary team

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