Relevant Medical Databases and Search Engines for Literature Screening
                     Research Paper
RELEVANT MEDICAL DATABASES 
AND SEARCH ENGINES FOR 
PERIODIC LITERATURE 
SCREENING
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MEDICAL LITERATURE 
SEARCH ENGINE
A medical literature search engine is a centralized 
browser-based platform with literature related to 
any of the medical subjects.
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HOW TO FIND A MEDICAL 
JOURNAL SEARCH ENGINE
01 02
Search engines are programmed Huge databases of medical 
to be connected with the archives articles are indexed with millions 
of published literature that are of journals from all over the 
stored inside online subject- world. A single database cannot 
specific academic databases like provide all the medical literature.
the medical literature database.
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01 EMBASE
Owned by Elsevier with 
more than 29 million 
records
02 MEDLINE DATABASES USED BY Over 22 million biomedical 
published papers can be POPULAR MEDICAL 
found  in this library SEARCH ENGINES
03 PsycINFO
More than 3.5 million 
collections available.
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MEDLINEPLUS
National Institutes of Health's Web 
site Produced by the National Library of 
Medicine US.
COCHRANE DATABASE 
INDMED
OF SYSTEMATIC 
National Database of Indian Medical 
Journals. REVIEWS (CDSR)
LILACS
An on-line bibliographic database  in  medicine  
and health sciences, maintained by the Latin 
American and Caribbean Center on Health 
Sciences Information.  
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AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL INDEX
Database that indexes and abstracts 
articles from over 160 Australian health COCHRANE DATABASE 
and medical journals. OF SYSTEMATIC 
REVIEWS (CDSR)
CBM
Chinese biomedical literature database.
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SEARCH ENGINES FOR MEDICAL WRITING
PUBMED
• Free online collection of medical journal papers collected by the 
National Library of Medicine(NLM) of the United States National 
Institutes of Health.
• 25 million documents and scans a large number of databases 
including MEDLINE and other NLM journals like MedlinePlus. 
• Filter topic in PubMed by typing search terms to the MeSH (Medical 
subject text heading). 
• Provides PMC citation and NCBI Bookshelf.
OVID
• Ovid is analogous to PubMed.
• It has a clear edge over PubMed as Ovid can search for more 
number of databases including MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane 
Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR). 
• Wider spectrum of search can be conducted which will naturally 
provide more results and therefore more evidence for health writing.
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WEB OF SCIENCE
• Web of Science holds a huge database of Thomson Reuters’s 8,700 international 
scientific journals encompasing more than 250 fields in science, arts, humanities, 
and social science
• A large number of international publications especially on guidelines or protocols  
from Asia in this archive but need a subscription to access the papers.
• Web of Science Core Collection is very consistent with its content selection and 
ensures high-quality journals. 
• Provides indexes that cover the content thoroughly with a complete view 
SCIENCE DIRECTincluding citation. 
• Full-text scientific respiratory proved to be of immense help to the millions of 
medical writers with detailed knowledge not limiting only to the abstract.
• Allows to find articles owned by academic publisher Elsevier in over 3,800 
science, technology and medicine papers.
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SPRINGER LINK 
• This portal is similar to Science Direct. 
• It has access to more than 5 million articles in journals operated 
by publisher Springer.
SCOPUS
• Scopus is a hefty database of more than 60 million peer-reviewed literature 
and is also owned by Elsevier. 
• Scopus ties up with EMBASE and MEDLINE databases to search collections for 
journal articles. 
• Provides full-text articles access to more than 4200 full-text journals  but 
some of these may need login via subscription. 
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COCHRANE LIBRARY
• Cochrane Library used for searching systematic reviews or meta-
analyses. 
• Gives results from Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) 
and also controls trials in MEDLINE and EMBASE, Cochrane protocols 
and editorials.
• Cochrane library can be accessed only through subscription. However, 
GOOGLE SCHOLAmRany open-access editorials may also be retrieved, based on the 
timing of publishing of those articles.
Google Scholar is a free engine indexing medical journal articles from a 
diversified set of databases. 
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OPEN-ACCESS SEARCH ENGINES
Directory of Open Access Journals
01 The database has nearly 10,000 open-access 
journals. 
OpenMD.com
04 Multi-source information search engine and state repository.
Open Science Directory
02 About 13,000 open-access scientific journals available. 
Trip Database
05 A medical search engine where one can filter searches based on the type of evidence. 
Free Medical Journals
03 Indexes about 4832 peer-reviewed open-
access journals.
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CONCLUSION
It is always recommended to refer these search 
engines while writing medical research papers or 
articles.
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