CABI: Global Health Database

CABI

Year Joined PERii
2003

Resource Name
Global Health

Resource Type
Current Awareness Database (includes references to journals, books, conferences, reports and handbooks). Free full text access is available for some items via CABIs Full Text Select database.

Access URL
http://www.cabdirect.org/

Title Listing
For a list of serials cited, visit the CABI website.

Content Overview
Global Health is a database specialising in public health, human nutrition, parasitic, communicable and tropical diseases and medicinal plants. It provides access to abstracts of the world's research literature from 1973 to present with coverage of English and foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, developing country information and other difficult to obtain literature. The database contains over 1.41 million records with 90,000 records added annually. Virtually every word is searchable, allowing for easy access to this important collection of references to international human health and diseases literature.

CAB Abstracts Full-Text Select is a full text database comprising articles from "hard-to-find" journals and conferences from around the world.
From 1 January 2009, Global Health will automatically include all of CABI's Full Text Select content! For further information, visit the CABI website.

Subject Strengths

  • Parasitic Diseases
  • Medicinal and Poisonous Plants
  • Community and Public Health
  • Human Nutrition
  • Communicable Diseases, including AIDS and HIV

Service Strengths

  • Tropical Diseases
  • Coverage from 1973 to the present day
  • Over 3,500 serial sources from more than 125 countries are scanned by subject specialists for relevant articles on human health
  • Global Health provides an alternative point of reference, complementary to other databases such as MEDLINE with a broad analysis of developing country information, foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards dissertations, conference proceedings and annual reports
  • 40% of the records in Global Health are unique to Global Health
  • add SC:FT to your search to limit the results to records with links to CAB Abstracts Full Text Select articles

Usage Guides
CABI database usage guide: This page provides links to a variety of useful user guides for the CAB Direct search interface.

Registration Information
Each developing country institution eligible for access (Document eligibility criteria 38kb) is required to register to use CABI Global Health Database. If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to the PERii registration system and select your country and institution.

Access Information
Access to Global Health is via Username and Password only.

Publisher Support/Help Contact
Please contact: CABI Customer Support staff at sales@cabi.org or fax +44 (0)1491 829198.

URL to General Publisher Site
http://www.cabi.org

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Information for Librarians

Platform
CABI Direct

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Publisher FAQs
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