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Research & journals
To successfully find research, you will first need to define your topic (eg the effect of passive smoking on asthma) and draw up a list of keywords. These should include synonyms, acronyms, abbreviations, popular and science terms. A dictionary or subject encyclopaedia can help – try Bailliere's nurses' dictionary by B F Weller (1997), published by Bailliere Tindall, London. The most commonly used databases in the biomedical field are Medline and Embase.
Altavista
Altavista's list of biomedical journals
(via health & fitness >for professionals > journals A-Z)
Blackwell Science
Journal of Clinical & Experimental Allergy (via the Blackwell Science site)
Embase
• Embase (Excerpta Medica) is a fee-paying biomedical database, published by Elsevier Science Publishers, which covers about 3,500 biomedical journals from 110 countries, from 1980 to the present day.
• Its coverage of European material is wider than Medline's. It also covers topics such as drug information and complementary medicine, as well as keeping abreast of new journals that are published.
• It is not as comprehensive as Medline for American literature and issues such as public health.
• Updates to the data are supplied and installed on a weekly basis. The data will be available online about five weeks after publication.
Medline
Medline is the CD-ROM and online version of the printed Medicus citation index that covers more than 3,700 journals in the biomedical sciences with an emphasis on American publications.
