Table 2.
Specalized Databases
| Free databases | ||
|---|---|---|
| Database | URL | Topic coverage |
| C2-SPECTR (Campbell Collaboration’s Social, Psychological, Educational and Criminology Trials Register) | http://geb9101.gse.upenn.edu | Trial Register for Social Sciences (similar to DARE) |
| ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) | http://www.eric.ed.gov | Education, including the education of health care professionals as well as educational interventions for patients |
| IBIDS (International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements) | http://ods.od.nih.gov/Health_Information/IBIDS.aspx | Dietary supplements |
| ICL (Index to Chiropractic Literature) | http://www.chiroindex.org | Chiropractic |
| NAPS (new Abstracts and Papers in Sleep) | http://www.websciences.org/bibliosleep/naps/default.html | Sleep |
| OTseeker (Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence) | http://www.otseeker.com | Occupational therapy |
| PEDRo (Physiothrarpy Evidence Database) | http://www.pedro.org.au/ | Physical therapy |
| PILOTS | http://www.ptsd.va.gov/ptsd_adv_search.asp | PTSD ad traumatic stress |
| PopLine | http://www.popline.org | Population, family planning and reproductive health |
| PubMed | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed | Biology and health sciences |
| RDRB (Research and Development Resource Base) | http://www.rdrb.utoronto.ca/about.php | Medical education |
| RehabData | http://www.naric.com/research/rehab | Rehabilitation |
| Social Care Online | http://www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk | Social care including: healthcare, social work and mental health |
| TOXNET | http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov | Toxicology, environmental health, adverse effects |
| TRIS (Transportation Research Information Service) | http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/tris/index.do | Transportation research |
| WHO Global Health Library | http://www.who.int/ghl/medicus/en/ | International biomedical topics. Global Index Medicus |
| Subscription databases | ||
| AgeLine | http://www.csa.com/factsheets/ageline-set-c.php | Aging, health topics of interest to people over 50 |
| AMED (Allied and Complimentary Medicine Database) | http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/DataBase/12.jsp | Complementary medicine and allied health |
| ASSIA (Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts) | http://www.csa.com/factsheets/assia-set-c.php | Applied social sciences including: anxiety disorders, geriatrics, health, nursing, social work and substance abuse |
| BNI (British Nursing Index) | http://www.bniplus.co.uk/about_bni.html | Nursing and midwifery |
| ChildData | http://www.childdata.org.uk/ | Child-related topics including child health |
| CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) | http://www.ebscohost.com/cinahl | Nursing and allied health |
| CommunityWISE | http://www.oxmill.com/communitywise/ | Community issues including community health |
| EMBASE | http://www.embase.com | Biomedical with and emphases on drugs and pharmaceuticals, more non-US coverage than MEDLINE |
| EMCare | http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bibliographicdatabasedescription.cws_home/708272/description#description | Nursing and allied health |
| Global Health | http://www.cabi.org/datapage.asp?iDocID=169 | International health |
| HaPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) | http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/DataBase/866.jsp | Health and psychosocial testing instruments |
| IPA (international Pharmaceutical Abstracts) | http://www.csa.com/factsheets/ipa-set-c.php | Drugs and pharmaceuticals |
| MANTIS (Manual Alternative and Natural Therapy Index System) | http://www.healthindex.com/MANTIS.aspx | Ostopathy, chiropractic and alternative medicine |
| PsycINFO | http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/index.aspx | Psychological literature |
| Sociological Abstracts | http://www.csa.com/factsheets/socioabs-set-c.php | Sociology including: health and medicine and the law, social psychology and substance abuse and addiciton |
| Social Services Abstracts | http://www.csa.com/factsheets/ssa-set-c.php | Social services including: mental health services, gerontology and health policy |