Table 1.
Description of electronic databases and resources
Publisher | Access | Type | Coverage | |
---|---|---|---|---|
CINAHL [10] | EBSCO | by subscription | indexed database | nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative medicine, and allied health topics |
Embase [8] | Elsevier | by subscription | indexed database | biomedical literature, 1947 to present |
Epistemonikos [16] | Epistemonikos foundation (non-profit) | free of charge | citations database, data scraped from other databases and the web | health evidence, nine supported languages [22, 23] |
MEDLINE [7] | U.S. National Library of Medicine (non-profit) | free of charge | indexed database | biomedicine and health literature, 1966 to present [24] |
PsycINFO [11] | EBSCO, American Psychological Association | by subscription | indexed database | behavioural science and mental health |
TRIP [17] | Trip Inc. | free of charge | clinical search engine | health care [25] |
Psyc. topic = mental health- or psychology-related topic