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Five large Chinese biomedical bibliographic databases: accessibility and coverage
Author(s) -
Xia Jun,
Wright Judith,
Adams Clive E.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
health information and libraries journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.779
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1471-1842
pISSN - 1471-1834
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00734.x
Subject(s) - upload , medline , computer science , information retrieval , database , china , bibliographic database , world wide web , data science , geography , political science , archaeology , law
Background: Much biomedical research is now undertaken in China. Methods: Five large biomedical databases originating from China ( cbm , cmcc , cnki , vip and wanfang ) are described and their utility and accessibility investigated. Results: These databases index 2500 journals largely not familiar to medline users. Free access, search features, record selection, ease of downloading and cost of subscription varies considerably between databases. Conclusion: Searches in all databases benefit from the use of simplified Chinese and all provide links to full text articles. Less than 6% of the 2500 journals in the five databases were listed as being indexed for medline .