BioMed Central | The Open Access Publisher. UK PubMed Central. Home. Global health resources - lrweb.beds.ac.uk. Many of the databases you may be used to searching offer comprehensive coverage of health topics, but you may have noticed that much of the research that you retrieve comes from North America and Europe. If your research focuses on other geographical regions, particularly those of the developing world, you may find some of these links helpful. Databases Global Health - specialist database relating to global public and environmental health. Contains unique records with some full text. A key resource for public health students. African Index Medicus - international index to African health literature and information sources.
African Journals Online - index of articles from African peer-reviewed and scholarly journals. Bioline International - open access peer-reviewed bioscience journals from 16 developing countries. Developing Countries from BioMed Central - subject based gateways to open access journals published in BioMed Central. Country profiles. Databases for my subject - lrweb.beds.ac.uk. Databases for my subject Databases are searchable electronic tools which help you to identify journal articles, books and chapters in books, conference papers and other sources useful for your studies. A considerable number of the journals indexed are available in the Learning Resource Centres in print or in electronic full-text from the library catalogue.
Some (bibliographic) databases just include abstracts which summarise what an article is about, and then give you a WebBridge link back to the catalogue to check if we have the journal in-house. Brief details of the databases relevant to health courses are given below. Healthcare databases AMED - allied and alternative medicine topics. Databases for related subjects Annual Reviews - covers 29 biomedical, physical and social science disciplines ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts) - a British database for applied social sciences. Useful general databases.