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RESEARCH LETTER
World Databases of Summaries of Articles in the Biomedical Fields
Matthew E. Falagas, MD, MSc, DSc;
Konstantina P. Giannopoulou, MD;
Evangelos A. Issaris;
Alex Spanos
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A considerable proportion of clinicians and researchers face difficulties in identifying the available databases of biomedical information when performing literature searches for the needs of clinical practice and research. PubMed is the most commonly used database of biomedical information in the Western world. Open-access (free), full-text publications are available through PubMed Central. Currently, only a relatively small subset of the more than 17 million records on PubMed are included in PubMed Central and thus are full text, open access.
However, there are other databases in the United States and other countries that index different numbers of biomedical and life science journals and archive information related to the articles published in them. These databases contain scientific information that may be useful to clinicians and researchers.1-2 We sought to compile a list of databases that are available . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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