Access to Global health and Global health archives is now available via the CAB Direct platform:
Global health via CAB Direct replaces the UW’s former subscription via the Ovid platform (cancelled December 2010)
Global Health is the only specialist bibliographic, abstracting and indexing database dedicated to public health research and practice.
Derived from over 3500 journals, plus reports, books and conferences, Global Health contains over 1.2 million scientific records from 1973 to the present. Over 90,000 records are added each year, and over 95% of these records include an abstract.
Publications from over 158 countries in 50 languages are abstracted, and all relevant non-English-language papers are translated to give access to research not available through any other database.
The database’s open serials policy and coverage of international and grey literature means that 40% of material contained in Global Health is unique to the database. Everything from proceedings, patents, theses, electronic only publications and other difficult-to-obtain sources are included.
The archive is a fully searchable modern database of research dating from 1910 to 1972, containing 800,000 records derived from six printed abstract journals. Global Health Archive is fully compatible with Global Health and can be searched alongside it for records from 1910 to the present day. Together they provide a global picture of international public health research both past and present.