Table 1 Database searching results
Database | Type of database | Characteristic | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
Web of science (Web of science core collection) | Bibliographic | Comprehensive multiple databases. | 487 |
PubMed | Bibliographic | Primarily the MEDLINE database. | 168 |
PMC | Full-text | Publicly accessible full-text database. | 241 |
The Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS) | Full-text | The digital library of WHO’s published material and technical information in full text produced since 1948. Its content is freely accessible and searchable in the six official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian & Spanish). | 147 |
Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR) | Bibliographic | A database of articles published in selected journals within the WHO South-East Asia Region. | 114 |
Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database | Full-text | Published by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI),a leading provider of evidence–based information. | 91 |
CINAHL | Bibliographic | Database with journal articles about nursing, allied health, biomedicine and healthcare. | 37 |
BLDS Index to development studies | Bibliographic | Europe’s most comprehensive research collection on development issues. | 37 |
Directory of Open Access Journals Search | Bibliographic | Independent database contains ca. 12,000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities. | 28 |
Popline | Bibliographic | Contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of population, family planning and related reproductive health and development literature. | 26 |
Informit Health Collection | Full-text | An extensive range of authoritative subject-based databases featuring coverage of Australian and international information resources. | 25 |
Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM) | Bibliographic | Medical and health journals published in Member States of the WHO Western Pacific Region. | 5 |
LILACS (Latin Am. & Carib. Center on Health Sci Info) | Bibliographic | Bibliographic database in the Health Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean. | 4 |
Cochrane | Bibliographic/ full-text | A collection of databases in medicine and other healthcare specialties provided by Cochrane and other organizations. At its core is the collection of Cochrane Reviews, a database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. | 1 |
African Journals online | Full-text | The world’s largest online library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals. | 0 |