A comparison of biomedical databases |
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| Authors: | A Y Mychko-Megrin |
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| Institution: | Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation in Dentistry, N.A. Semashko Moscow Medical Stomatological Institute, U.S.S.R. |
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| Abstract: | Various published bibliographic and abstract services covering the period 1970-1988 were compared to analyze scope and coverage. A total of 7,281 articles and book titles (1,655 Soviet and 5,626 foreign) were selected on forty-one topics in different medical fields. The titles originated from three different samples but included all Soviet medical literature on the subjects. A distribution of biomedical serials from five databases is given by country, and twelve indices to assess the quality of biomedical databases are suggested. |
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