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Global Health 1973 to present ; Archive1910-1983
Global Health brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases - the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS.
Global Health provides an alternative, complementary point of reference with a broad analysis of foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, public health, developing country information, and other difficult to obtain material.

PubMed
Covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.

CINAHL Plus - via EBSCOhost
CINAHL Plus provides indexing for over 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health (including physical therapy, occupational therapy, & sports medicine), with indexing back to 1937.

Academic Search Elite - via EBSCOhost
Academic Search Elite offers full text for more than 2,000 scholarly journals covering virtually every area of academic study.

African Studies
African Studies is an exclusive combination of 16 databases from three continents providing access to multi-disciplinary information on Africa. Combining 16 databases from three continents searchable together for the first time, this premier information resource contains over 946,665 indexed references, many with abstracts. Records are derived from books, periodical articles, pamphlets, maps and music recordings. Topics include politics, history, economics, business, mining, development, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law, music and much more.

AIDSInfo
Includes substances being tested in AIDS-related clinical trials.

Arctic Health
The Arctic Health website is sponsored by the National Library of Medicine's Division of Specialized Information Services and maintained by the University of Alaska Anchorage's Health Sciences Information Service. Its aim is to provide a central source of information on diverse aspects of the Arctic environment and the health of Northern peoples. It provides access to evaluated health information from hundreds of local, state, national, and international agencies, as well as from professional societies and universities.

IndMed
IIndian contribution in the areas of biomedical research and health care has been significant and conforming to international standards. However, only a small fraction of it is available for reference through international bibliographic databases. The ICMR-NIC Centre for Biomedical Information (Indian MEDLARS Centre or IMC) has designed and developed a bibliographic database of peer reviewed Indian biomedical literature. This database covers 75 prominent Indian journals.

Journal Citation Reports
Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide. Coverage is both multidisciplinary and international, and incorporates journals from over 3,000 publishers in 60 nations. The JCR is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
The JCR can show you the highest impact journals (Impact Factor), most frequently used journals, and the hottest and largest journals.

KoreaMed
KoreaMed was established by the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE) with support by Korean Academy of Medical Science, Health Technology Planning and Evaluation Board to have easy access to Korean Medical Journals. Editors, Organizations participating in KoreaMed provide KAMJE with formatted citations prior to or at the time of publication, and KAMJE adds them to the KoreaMed database. If any editor has a WWW site that offers full text of its journals, we provide links to that site.

Popline
POPLINE® (POPulation information onLINE), the world's largest database on reproductive health, provides more than 300,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.   POPLINE has numerous special features including links to free, fulltext documents; the ability to limit your search to peer-reviewed journal articles; and many abstracts in French and Spanish.   POPLINE is maintained by the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded primarily by the United States Agency for International Development.

Web of Science
A citation database that includes the Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Coverage goes back to 1979. See also ISI's Journal Citation Reports to evaluate and compare scholarly journals using citation data.

WHOLIS
Access to World Health Organization Full-text Online

WHO Regional Databases: Africa, Eastern Mediterranean, Latin America and Caribbean, South-East Asia
The Regional medical indexes, published by or under the auspices of WHO Regional Offices give access to bibliographical information about the health material published locally. They thus add a further dimension to the retrieval of information from developed country-oriented databases.

For additional databases available to the UI community visit:
Hardin Library's Databases page
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International Statistical Agencies from the U.S. Census Burea

SourceOECD
SourceOECD provides comparative statistics from the 30 member states (industrialized nations) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, as well as development statistics from other countries. Includes an interactive data browser as well as PDF downloadable files. Click on Statistics link at the top of the page to get started