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- Finding A Medical Journal Search Engine
- 7 Reliable Search Engines For Your Health Writing
- Open-Access Search Engines
Search engines are designed to integrate with an online academic database of archived published literature. Large medical journal databases index articles from thousands of journals all across the world. Here are just a few databases commonly used by credible medical search engines: 1. EMBASE – owned by Elsevier with over 29 million records 2. MEDL...
1. PubMed
PubMed is probably the first online search engine that comes to mind for health writers. It is a free online archive of medical journal articles maintained by the United States National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NLM). It contains over 25 million records and searches several databases – including interfacing with MEDLINE and other publications by the NLM, such as MedlinePlus. You can easily refine your search per topic in PubMed by typing search terms to the MeSH (Me...
2. Ovid
If you have a login access from your institution, there are other search engines that search MEDLINE, such asOvid, Ebscohost and ProQuest. Ovid is a comparable search engine to PubMed. Its advantage over PubMed is it searches more databases in addition to MEDLINE, including EMBASE and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR). This means that your search will expand to include more results giving you more evidence to use for your writing.
3. Web of Science
Web of Scienceuses a large database of 8,700 international scientific journals from Thomson Reuters. The database includes a large number of international publications from Asia and requires a subscription to access the articles. Web of Science has a useful database to search for scholarly research data on emerging trends if you’re writing protocols or guidelines. It covers over 250 disciplines in science, social science, arts and humanities.
If you don’t have access to full-text articles through an institution, there are several medical journal search engines that provide open access to free journal articles: 1. Directory of Open Access Journals– the database has about 10,000 journals available for open-access 2. Open Science Directory– about 13,000 scientific journals are available wi...
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- FreeMedicalJournals.com. FreeMedicalJournals.com is exactly what it sounds like, a list of links to medical journals that offer free access. It was created by a Portuguese university librarian named Manuel Montenegro, and Bernd Sebastian Kamps, Editor-in-Chief of Flying Publisher and the director of the Amedeo literature service.
- OMICS International. Dr. Srinubabu Gedela founded OMICS International to help make healthcare and scientific information available immediately and for free.
- Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research. In some ways, the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research's free medical journals list is harder to use than FreeMedicalJournals.com or OMICS International's list.
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