Global Health

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

Contains 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central, publisher web sites and to the McGill Find Full Text linkresolver.

public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology, entomology and mycology in several languages

Interdisciplinary covering Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM; useful when searching for articles citing an article

Interdisciplinary covering all branches of sciences; useful for searching for articles citing an article you already have

Bioethics database providing access to records from the integrated German, American and French databases. Contains references to monographs, grey literature, legal documents, journal articles, newspaper articles and book contributions. Database access via ETHICSWEB or producer’s website. English or German interface available.

Produced by the National Agricultural Library (NAL). Contains bibliographic records of materials acquired by the NAL and cooperating institutions in agricultural and related sciences. Coverage includes: agricultural administration, laws and regulations, economics, education, training and extension, engineering and products; animal science; aquatic sciences; chemistry; energy as related to agriculture; entomology; feed science; food science and food products; forestry; general agriculture; geography, meteorology, climatology and history; home economics and human ecology; human nutrition; institutional food service; life sciences; natural resources management and environmental pollution; pesticides; plant diseases; plant science and production; rural sociology; soil science; veterinary medicine. Coverage: 1970 - present

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

10 simultaneous users.
Covers the significant research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, human health and nutrition, animal health, and the management and conservation of natural resources. 

Full text database in the areas of nursing and allied health journals. Contains approximately 770 journals from the CINAHL index with coverage back to 1937.

Pure and applied research in food science, food technology, and food-related nutrition.

(1969-present)

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

Ovid MEDLINE® covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.

Formerly PAIS International. Global public policy and social issues

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

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

Search the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) for journal article citations about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics/Latinos in the US

Latin American and Caribbean health sciences literature. Includes records of peer reviewed journals, theses and dissertations, government documents, conference proceedings, books, and more. Recommended by Cochrane.

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.

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.

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.

Research literature from South Korea. Subject coverage includes Arts & Humanities, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, and Technology.
Data is searchable in Korean and English.
(1980-present)

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.
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Access to scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities published in open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa. 

(1997-present)