CSU 25/2011: DIGGING UP THE LITERATURE FROM YOUR COUNTRY

Sunday, 5th of June 2011

Go to http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020228 for a practical guide to medical searches on the Internet.

Since many of you do not see your countries appear very often in these updates, let me suggest to you one way to find child health articles of greatest interest to you:

PUBMED

1) go to www.pubmed.gov

2) in the search engine, type in, for example, 'Zambia AND child health' or 'Bangladesh AND child health'

3) click to make sure that the results appear in chronological order, the most recent appearing first.

If you are from a small country with few citations you can, for example, type in 'Africa AND child health.'

If you wish only to view items with free full text (no more than 20 percent of the total), click on the right under 'Filter results.' Otherwise, you get all articles, most of them with abstracts only.

COCHRANE REVIEWS

These are available at www.cochrane.org Type your search items in the search box.

JOURNAL PAGES

If there are individual journals of great interest to you, go to their homepages and ask to be put on the mailing list for their etoc, electronic table of contents. The ones I find most useful are the WHO Bulletin, www.who.int/bulletin/en/, the Public Library of Science/Medicine at http://www.plosmedicine.org/home.action, Emerging Infectious Diseases at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm, and the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, www.cdc.gov/mmwr The Lancet and the British Medical Journal both have homepages, but some articles are pay per view. This is also true for most articles in the American Journal of Epidemiology, the International Journal of Epidemiology, and the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Health.

Writers from South Asia should consider the Indian Journal of Pediatrics at http://indianpediatrics.net/ and the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, from ICDDR/B, at http://www.icddrb.org/publication.cfm?classificationID=30

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