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CINAHL
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Health / Nursing
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Most records are citations only
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Cochrane Library
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Health / Biomedical
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Only systematic reviews
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EconLit
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Economics
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Cover all economics-related fields of research
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Embase
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Health / Biomedical
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Strong focus on drug and pharmaceutical research
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Global Health
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Public Health
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Strong focus on public health practice internationally
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LILACS
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Health / Biomedical
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Only Spanish-speaking literature
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Medline
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Health / Biomedical
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Very similar to PubMed, updated weekly
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OpenGrey
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Multidisciplinary grey literature
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Strong focus on literature produced in Europe
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PubMed
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Health / Biomedical
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Very similar to Medline, updated daily
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Scopus
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Multidisciplinary
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World’s largest abstract and citation database, may be difficult to find full text
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GreyLit
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Health grey literature
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No longer updated since January 2017
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Google Scholar
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Multidisciplinary
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No advanced search possible, nor saving searches, nor exporting results; same search may lead to different results
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Web of Science
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Multidisciplinary
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Based on citations, very broad; full text may be difficult to find
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WHOLIS
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WHO databases
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Only WHO documentation; impossible to save searches and export results
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