| Africa
Data Dissemination Service (ADDS) |
African
Health Anthology (AHA)
(not for
free database, produced by National
Inquiry Services Centre (NISC), South Africa) |
| African
Index Medicus (AIM) |
| Anopheles
Database (AnoDB) |
Association
of Medical Research Charities (AMRC)
(With an
option to do a Grant Search by Funding Category) |
| Atlas
of Medical Parasitology |
Basic
Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST)
(a set of
similarity search programs, hosted by NLM,
designed to explore ALL available sequence databases) |
| Belgian-Flemish
Research Database (IWETO, Belgium) |
CAB
HEALTH Database
(more than
500,000 bibliographic records dating back to 1973) |
| Center
for International Health Information (CIHI) |
Cochrane
Library
(Full texts
only available after subscription) |
Community
Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS)
(Database
and Information Service of the European
Commission) |
Community
Tool Box
(site
designed to promote community health and development by
connecting people, ideas and resources) |
Computer
Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects
(CRISP, United States)
(searchable
database of biomedical research projects, funded by major
American Funding Bodies, like NIH) |
Country
Factbook
(information
(incl. maps) of all countries; collected and hosted by CIA) |
Current
Controlled Trials (CCT, United Kingdom)
The
metaRegister of Controlled Trials is a searchable,
international database of ongoing randomised controlled
trials in all areas of healthcare. |
DANDOK
Database (Denmark)
(Danish
research database, managed by Ministry
of Research and Information Technology and Risø
National Laboratory) |
Database
on South African Training and Capacity Building Providers
(South Africa)
(hosted and
maintained by Programme
for Development Research (PRODDER)) |
| Demographic
& Health Surveys (DHS) |
Development
Assistance Committee (DAC) Statistics
(Hosted by OECD) |
| Directory
of Health Systems Research (South Africa) |
Directory
of Selected African Research Networks
(hosted and
maintained by The
Rockefeller Foundation) |
| Donor
Humanitarian Assistance Database |
| DrugInfoNet |
Dutch
Research Database (NOD, Netherlands)
(a
subscription fee is required) |
| Electronic
Development and Environment Information System (ELDIS) |
Electronic
Resource Center (ERC)
(Published
and maintained by Management
Sciences for Health (MSH)) |
European
Current Research Information Systems
(Overview
collected and presented by NSD,
Norway) |
European
Research Gateways On-line (ERGO)
(a
catalogue of R&D projects from 20 European Research
Information Systems) |
Eurostat
(Statistical
Office of the European Communities) |
| Financial
Tracking Database |
Global
Training Resource Directory
(produced
and maintained by the World
Bank Institute) |
GlobalHealth2000
(Free
registration required; this site includes search options in
Medline, AMED, HealthStar, AIDSLine, and other literature
databases) |
GrantsNet
(a database
of funding opportunities for training in the Biological and
Medical Sciences) |
| Health
Education Library for People (HELP) |
| Health
On the Net Foundation (HON) |
| HealthCity
Virtual Library |
| HealthLink
(South Africa) |
| HealthNet |
HealthPromis
(United Kingdom)
(the
national health promotion database for the UK) |
| HealthWorks
online |
ID21
- Information for Development in the 21st Century
(UK based
database, hosted by the Institute
of Development Studies) |
India
Development Information Network (INDEV, India)
(includes
four databases for India-related Organisations, Projects,
Documents and Statistics) |
| InfoMed
Red Electrónica de información de Salud de Cuba
(Cuba) |
InfoNation
(Statistical
data for the Member States of the United
Nations) |
| Information
on Research and Higher Education (NSD, Norway) |
Intergovernmental
On-Line Information Kiosk
(Index of
government-sites on which the content is controlled by their
respective authorities) |
| International
Health Resource Informatics System (IHRIS) |
| International
Network for Development Information Exchange (INDIX) |
| Internet
Medical |
| John
Hopkins Center Databases |
Library
of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (Belgium)
(access to
several International Health-related databases) |
| List
of acronyms for Health Information Resources |
LOCATORplus
(Hosted by
the NLM,
this site gives access to a variety of resources, like
Medline, Popline, AIDSline, etc.) |
| Medical
Matrix |
Medical
Subject Headings (MeSH)
(online
vocabulary look-up aid, hosted and maintained by the NLM) |
| Medical
World Search |
| Medline
(Pubmed) |
Medscape
(Free)
Registration required! |
| MedWeb |
National
Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD, United
States)
(including
a Rare Disease Database, an Organizational Database, an
Orphan Drug Designation Database) |
On-line
Medical Dictionary
(contains
over 46,000 definitions) |
| Organising
Medical Networked Information (OMNI, United Kingdom) |
Overview
of available databases
(collected
and presented by ELDIS) |
| Parasite
Genome Web Site |
Partnership
for Health Reform
Health
reform database with 2,650 entries |
Population
Reference Bureau (PRB)
(providing
information on international population trends and their
implications) |
| Program
for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, (PromedMail,
International Organizations) |
| Red
Electrónica de información de Salud (InfoMed,
Cuba) |
| RxList
- The Internet Drug Index |
| Satellife |
Scientific
Electronic Library Online (SciELO)
(Hosted by BIREME) |
| South
African Data Archive (SADA, South Africa) |
| South
African Health Review (SAHR, South Africa) |
Technical
Cooperation among Developing Countries - Information
Referral Services (TCDC-INRES)
(hosted by UNDP) |
| The
Foundation Center |
| U.S.
Census Bureau -International DataBase (IDB) |
| U.S.
Library of Congress - Country Studies |
Virtual
Health Library (VHL)
(collected
and presented by the German
Foundation for International Development (DSE)) |
Virtual
Library on International Development
(collected
and presented by ACDI/CIDA) |
Virtual
Library on Medicine & Health
(collected
and presented by Stanford
University, USA) |
| Virtual
Library on Public Health |
| WHO
Library and Health Literature Services |
| WHO
Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) |
World
Bank Public Information Center (PIC)
(World Bank
project database) |
| World
Directory of Development Organizations and Programs |
Health
Development Databases