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Finding Health & Medicine Research from around the World

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When looking for health and medicine research it is very easy to stick to the well known databases. However, they don't always cover research from all countries, so if you want search in a more diverse range of databases here are some others you could try:

Global Index Medicus
    • "The Global Index Medicus (GIM) provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. The main objective is to increase the visibility and usability of this important set of resources. The material is collated and aggregated by WHO Regional Office Libraries on a central search platform allowing retrieval of bibliographical and full text information."

African Journals Online
    • "African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is an online service to provide access to African-published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship."

SciELO Citation Index
    • "Provides scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities published in leading open access journals from Latin America, Portugal, Spain, and South Africa." 
    • University of Leicester staff and students can access SciELO via Web of Science. Use the drop-down menu in Web of Science to change from the 'Core Collection' to SciELO.
KCI-Korean Journal Database
    • "Provides access to articles from multidisciplinary journals covered in KCI. KCI is managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea and contains bibliographic information for scholarly literature published in Korea."
    • University of Leicester staff and students can access KCI via Web of Science. Use the drop-down menu in Web of Science to change from the 'Core Collection' to KCI.
    • "J-STAGE is an electronic journal platform for science and technology information in Japan, developed and managed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)."
    • "China Academic Journals full-text database (also known as CNKI) is the largest and continuously updated Chinese journals database in the world."
    • A Spanish language database maintained by the University of La Rioja.
    • "Regional Online Information System for Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal"

PASCAL/Francis (only updated until 2015)
    • "Archive of the PASCAL and FRANCIS bibliographic databases in exact, human and social sciences, produced by the Inist-CNRS from 1972 to 2015"

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