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National Guidelines Clearinghouse
(www.guideline.gov) |
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines |
Guidelines are formed from clinical and analytical utility data. Tests that
are in development do not yet have this data available. |
Networked Digital Library of Theses
(www.ndltd.org/index.en.html) |
Organization dedicated dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues
to the traditional paperbased theses and dissertations |
Theses are preliminary reports from academic research programs. The majority are
not commercially active and those that are will be seen in other reports. |
System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe
(SIGLE)
(www.york.ac.uk/services/library/guides/sigle.htm) |
Computerized index to reports and other gray literature produced in Europe |
Gray Literature search tool that requires a subscription. |
TheseNet
(www.sudoc.abes.fr/) |
French Theses collection. Now called Systeme Universitaire de Documentation |
Non-English. |
AMICUS (National Library of Canada)
(http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/aaweb/aalogine.htm) |
Canadian national library catalogue |
Library holdings overlap significantly with Medline and reports contained
therein are based on clinical and analytical data. |
Australian National Library Catalog
(http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/) |
Australian national library catalogue |
Library holdings overlap significantly with Medline and reports contained
therein are based on clinical and analytical data. |
CABOT (Canadian Research Database)
(http://cahspr.ca/cabot/) |
Canadian research database. |
This Web site had a nonfunctional search tool. |
British Library
(www.bl.uk/) |
British library catalogue |
Library holdings overlap significantly with Medline. Similar to searching NLM. |
FDA OIVD new products
(www.fda.gov/cdrh/oivd/consumerotcdatabase.html) |
New OIVD products as of 7/1/05 |
Web site still under construction. |
National Library of Medicine's
LocatorPlus (http://locatorplus.gov/) |
Search for book, journal and audiovisual titles in the NLM collections |
Searches NLM. This source will return a similar dataset to other library holdings. |
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
(www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/darehp.htm) |
Structured abstracts of quality-assessed reviews |
Included in HTA database search above. |
CMA Infobase
(http://mdm.ca/cpgsnew/cpgs/index.asp) |
Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines. |
Guidelines are formed from clinical and analytical utility data. Tests that
are in development do not yet have this data available. |
BIREME Databases
(www.bireme.br/bvs/bireme/I/homepage.htm) |
Scientific and technical health information with the countries and among the
countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean region |
We are only interested in Health Sciences Section. The search tools used are
Medline and LILACS. |
Search Adobe PDF Online
(www.searchpdf.adobe.com) |
Searches PDF files online |
Nonfunctional search tool |
DIMDI databases
(www.dimdi.de/static/en/db/recherche.htm) |
German Institute of Medical documentation and information |
Not In English and uses Medline |
DIRLINE
(http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/) |
Directory of Health Organizations Online |
Not applicable to our report. Organized by National Library of Medicine. |
Directory of Database of Research(JAPAN)
(http://read.jst.go.jp/EN/) |
Listing of research taking place in Japan |
Reports similar to those of Medline |
Dissertation Abstracts
(http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/0035.html) |
Subject, title, and author guide virtually every American dissertation
accepted at an accredited institution since 1861 |
Dissertations are preliminary reports from academic research programs.
Utility of dissertations for purposes of this report is unclear. |
ERIC database
(www.eric.ed.gov/) |
Education literature |
Not applicable to our report. |
DrugResearcher.com
(www.drugresearcher.com/) |
Drug development in Europe |
This site is not directed towards biomarker development and thus is not
applicable to our report. |
ThePinkSheet.com
(www.thepinksheet.com) |
Prescription pharmaceuticals and biotechnology information |
A subscription is needed for information beyond the title. |
Reuters Health
(www.reutershealth.com) |
Supplier of health and medical news on the Internet |
A subscription is needed for information beyond the title. |