Public Health and Data: Databases

The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups.

Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers an overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities. As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, you can make sure that critical research from around the world is not missed.

CINAHL Plus provides indexing for 3,802 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health back to 1937. It covers English-language journals and other publications on nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and other allied health disciplines. In addition to journals, the database covers health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisual materials and Evidence-Based Care Sheets. Full text material includes nearly 80 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. The service also includes the Pre-CINAHL dataset. This provides basic bibliographic information about journal articles before they are indexed with CINAHL headings and serves as a current awareness service.

MEDLINE is a bibliographic database produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The database contains millions of citations, derived from thousands of biomedical and life science journals, and indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) from the NLM controlled vocabulary. Extending back to 1946, annual input now exceeds 700,000 citations. Updated daily, MEDLINE offers novice and expert searchers seamless and up-to-the-minute access to over 23 million of the latest bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,600 biomedicine and life sciences journals in nearly 40 languages (60 languages for older journals). English abstracts are included in more than 80% of the records.

The Health Management Information Consortium (HMIC) database is a compilation of data from two sources, the Department of Health's Library and Information Services and Kings Fund Information and Library Service.

Embase (Excerpta Medica Database) is a biomedical and pharmacological database produced by Elsevier B.V., containing more than 30 million records including articles from more than 8,500 journals published world-wide. It contains bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research, pharmacology and toxicology. Embase adds over 1 million records annually; the original Embase part of the databases contains ca. 20 million records, spanning from 1974 to present, from 6,100 journals. The MEDLINE supplement contains ca. 10 million records from 2,400 journals, with unique records from MEDLINE. Weekly average updates of 4.5K Articles in Press and 11K In Process records on Embase, part of the delivered In Process records overwrite the AiPs. Embase (Fully-indexed) will average 17K records per week. Over the past year Elsevier has processed 350K Conference records, on average 6.8K records per week. Each record contains the full bibliographic citation, indexing terms, and codes; and 80% of all citations in Embase include author-written abstracts. The Embase journal collection is international with peer-reviewed journals from more than 90 countries. Coverage focuses on the following core topics (with significant overlap between topics) representing over 70% of Embase content: Pharmacology and toxicology; General clinical medicine; Genetics, biochemistry & molecular biology; Neurology & behavioral medicine; Microbiology & infectious disease; Cardiology & hematology; Psychiatry & mental health; Oncology; Healthcare policy & management; Allergy & immunology; Pediatrics; Endocrinology & metabolism; Obstetrics & gynecology; Biomedical engineering & medical devices; Anesthesiology & intensive care; Gastroenterology; Respiratory medicine; Nephrology & urology; Dermatology; Geriatrics & gerontology.

PubMed is a free internet service developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine. This database provides access to citations from biomedical literature from a range of sources, including Medline records from 1950 - present.

Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.Trip has been online since 1997 and in that time has developed into the internets premier source of evidence-based content. Our motto is Find evidence fast and this is something we aim to deliver for every single search.As well as research evidence we also allow clinicians to search across other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.

Statista provides users with access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics and a wide variety of other areas of interest on markets. For each statistic meta data, including but not limited to source, release date, number of respondents and any other relevant details to facilitate verification is made available.

This is the world's largest full text business database. It provides full text access to over 8,000 business journals and other sources, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes all disciplines of business, including management, finance, economics and international business. This database provides full text for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1965. This database includes searchable cited references for 1,205 journals. It covers the period from 1984 to date and is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO Host.