African Health Anthology - CD-ROM and Internet
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"African Health Anthology" (AHA) is a collection of NINE Bibliographic
databases on African health issues offering access to a unique collec-
tion of documents, including African sources available electronically
for the first time, and covering health issues RELEVANT to Africa.
Bibliographic databases from Africa, Europe and the USA, are combined
together providing an estimate of over 300,000 records searchable to-
gether for the first time. Due out in April 1998 on the Internet: NISC
BiblioLine service and on CD-ROM at:
Please contact Margaret Crampton <nisc@ru.ac.za> to order your trial
copy.. No obligation to buy.
Databases on this disc:
African Index Medicus (AIM) (1993-current) AIM is compiled with the ob-
jective of providing improved access to published and unpublished
health literature from Africa. The database which now has 6000+ records
is produced co-operatively by the membership of the Association for
Health Information Libraries in African (AHILA), in collaboration with
the World Health Organization (WHO) Afro Regional Office in Brazza-
ville. Input is collated from 25 African countries.
African subset of "CAB Health Database" (1973 to current) CAB Health
brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases
- the human health and diseases related information from CAB Abstracts
and the file from the Public Health and Tropical Medicine Database. The
strengths of this collection lie in the following subject areas:
- Parasitology,
- communicable diseases,
- human nutrition,
- medicinal and poisonous plants,
- tropical medicine and diseases,
- AIDS and HIV and
- community and public health.
The database is produced by CAB International in the UK. There are cur-
rently 70,000 records with abstracts and 12000 new records are added
each year.
The Medicines Information Centre Reference Database of the University
of Cape Town (1980 to current) is a computerised literature database of
information on medicines, therapeutics and other aspects of medical
science. This database of 30,000 + records is a user-driven information
resource compiled in response to the queries received by the Centre
from all over Southern Africa and includes the Centre's Monthly Bulle-
tin, InforX-Med.
Community Health Information Database (CHID) (1993 to current) This da-
tabase of 11,000+ records is produced in the Medical Library of the
University of the Orange Free State, South Africa. Aimed at the broad
community as well as the information professional, this database com-
piles information from 65 South African medical journals as well the
grey literature, pamphlets, posters, and videos. It also includes con-
tacts for obtaining specific health information in Africa.
SAMED (1976 - 1996) is produced by the Medical Research Council of
South Africa (MRC) and is a database of publications emanating from re-
search supported in South Africa by the MRC. With 11,000 records, SAMED
consists of journal articles, Technical Reports, theses and grey lit-
erature and covers a wide variety of topics including TB, trauma, nu-
trition, micro-toxins, public health issues, urbanisation, health sys-
tems, AIDS and HIV.
African Subset of "Medline" (1966 to current). Medline is the world's
premier bibliographic database produced by the National Library of
Medicine in Bethesda, USA. It covers the whole spectrum of medical in-
formation and approximately 33,000 citations with detailed abstracts
are added each month. Information Scientists at the South African Medi-
cal Research Council in Cape Town have devised the Medline subset to
reflect the publications from Africa and the health needs of the Afri-
can continent. If you have comments or suggestions please contact:
Elizabeth Pienaar
Fax: +27-21-938-0315
mailto:epienaar@eagle.mrc.ac.za
African Health subset of "WATERLIT" (1975 to present) The provision of
an uncontaminated water supply is crucial to public health. WATERLIT is
a South African database which covers all aspects of water, wastewater
and sanitation. This subset includes the following topics:
- water-borne diseases and parasites,
- water supply & water quality,
- fluoridation, toxicology, sanitation,
- hygiene, and the health aspects of irrigation, composting and sewage
treatment.
African Health Subset of the "Index to South African Periodicals"
(ISAP) (1987-present). This South African subset includes all the
health and medical journals as indexed in ISAP as well as articles on
health and medical matters from related magazines and journals. This
data set includes scholarly research and popular literature in all
medical and health fields including public health, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary science, alternative medicine and complementary therapy.
African Health Subset of the "South African Index to Theses and Disser-
tations" (1924 - current) This South African subset includes all the
medical and health related theses included in the Index to Theses and
Dissertations compiled in the University of Potchefstroom. Including a
wide variety of topics this subset includes all aspects of medicine,
nursing, pharmacology, psychology, public health, dentistry, and vet-
erinary science.
Powerful ROMWright Software is designed for intuitive use by beginners,
experienced users and professionals requiring sophisticated search
tools. Choose from among three search modes: NOVICE, ADVANCED and
EXPERT. Context sensitive Online Help, field specific indexes, Spelling
variant intelligence
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