Databases
Open accessarXiv
(Cornell University)
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for over 2 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
Open accessbioRxiv
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
bioRxiv (pronounced “bio-archive”) is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.
ITM subscriptionCAB Direct
(incl. Global Health)
Over 15.000.000 records from the CABI databases, incorporating a.o. Tropical Diseases Bulletin, providing an important complement to e.g. PubMed searches for tropical medicine and parasitology literature. CAB Direct is now fully integrated in EDS.
ITM subscriptionCochrane Library
(John Wiley)
10.000 systematic reviews and over 1.000.000 registered clinical trials. Independent high quality evidence for health care decision making.
Cochrane is a global independent network of health practitioners, researchers, patient advocates and others, responding to the challenge of making the vast amounts of evidence generated through research useful for informing decisions about health. We are a not-for-profit organisation with collaborators from over 120 countries working together to produce credible, accessible health information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest.
ITM subscriptionCRD Database
(Centre for Reviews and Dissimination / National Institute for Health Research)
DARE is focused primarily on systematic reviews that evaluate the effects of health care interventions and the delivery and organisation of health services.
The database also includes reviews of the wider determinants of health such as housing, transport, and social care where these impact directly on health, or have the potential to impact on health.
Every week we undertake extensive searches and assess thousands of citations to identify potential systematic reviews._
ITM subscriptionEDS – ITM Library’s Discovery Service
Our central search engine combines several of the library’s major information sources into one portal indexing millions of items readily available to ITM patrons. EDS integrates both international databases such as Medline Complete, Global Health or ScienceDirect and specific ITM collections such as the complete ITM books catalog (both printed and online), ITM dissertations and ITM publications.
- Use the limit options on the left panel to focus your search: All ITM Collections / ITM Library Collections / ITM Publications / etc.
- Default results display order is by relevance. You can change this to publication date (‘newest/oldest first’).
- The publication type icons may sometimes be confusing. E.g. ‘Academic journal’ vs. ‘Magazine’.
- Next to most full-text e-journals and e-books available to ITM, EDS also contains a selection of international bibliographic databases from which part of the full-text items may not be available online or in the library. The FullTextFinder feature aims to link to appropriate full-text content, but cannot always guarantee its immediate availability.
ITM subscriptionGlobal Health
(included in CABI Direct)
Over 4.000.000 records from the CABI databases, incorporating a.o. Tropical Diseases Bulletin, providing an important complement to e.g. PubMed searches for tropical medicine and parasitology literature. Global Health is also fully integrated in our EDS.
ITM subscriptionInCites
(Clarivate Analytics)
Make better informed, more confident decisions with publisher-neutral journal intelligence.
For nearly 50 years, the research community has relied on the unbiaised data in Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR) to identify the world’s leading journals in the sciences and social sciences and understand key citation impact trends.
ITM subscriptionJCR – Journal Citation Reports
(Clarivate Analytics)
For finding Journal Impact Factors or JIFS – and many other bibliometric parameters – of over 12,000 journals.
ITM subscriptionLILACS – Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciéncias da Saùde
(PAHO/BIREME)
LILACS is the most important and comprehensive index of scientific and technical literature of Latin America and the Caribbean. For over 40 years contributing to increase visibility, access and quality of health information in the Region.
Open accessMIP Library – Malaria in Pregnancy
(MiPC, LSTM)
The Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Library is a regularly updated, comprehensive bibliographic database of published and unpublished literature relating to malaria in pregnancy, including a trial registry of planned and ongoing trials. The MiP library is a product of the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium and is available free of charge.
Open accessmedRxiv
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory et al.)
medRxiv (pronounced “med-archive”) is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences.
ITM subscriptionMEDLINE Ultimate
(EbscoHost)
Full-text of over 3,000 journals indexed in Medline/PubMed. Most of these have an embargo of 1 or more months. MEDLINE Ultimate is fully integrated in ITM’s EDS discovery service.
Open accessPubMed
(NIH – NLM – NCBI)
Contents: the major international biomedical database, produced by the National Library of Medicine (USA).
Characteristics:
- Subject: medicine and allied sciences or specialties.
- Volume: 1950-present: over 35,000,000 references.
- Document types: Medline/PubMed contains exclusively journal articles; books and reports are generally not included. The database is produced by scanning
approximately 5,000 biomedical journals.
From the quantitative point of view this is only a fraction of the total number of biomedical journals, but the quality of this selection guarantees that virtually all important publications of the world literature are included – however, Medline/PubMed has a strong Anglosaxon bias.
Open accessPURE – ITM’s Research Portal
This portal showcases the research and expertise of the Institute of Tropical Medicine and its researchers. It offers insight into ongoing and completed projects, research activities, courses and the broader impact of ITM’s work in global health, clinical and biomedical sciences. Alongside researcher and unit profiles, the portal brings together publications, other research-related outputs and professional accomplishments. It also serves as a gateway to ITM’s institutional repository, providing Open Access versions of a growing number of publications.
ITM subscriptionProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index
The world’s most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over 5 million citations and 3 million full-text works from thousands of universities (1637-present).
- Within dissertations and theses is a wealth of scholarship, yet it is often overlooked because most go unpublished. Uncover new ideas and innovations with more confidence and efficiency.
- Delivers a focused path for researchers by tapping into a global network of connected research.
Open accessUniCat
Union Catalogue of Belgian Libraries, with over 16 million records.
ITM subscriptionUpToDate
(Wolters Kluwer)
Evidence-based clinical decision support resource.