OBJECTIVE To assess the extent of mental health scientific production in Brazil from 1999 to 2003, and to identify the nature of the publications generated, their sources of finance and the ways of publicly disseminating the research findings. METHODS Searches for publications were conducted in the Medline and PsychInfo databases for the period 1999-2003. A semi-structured questionnaire devel...

Drug-drug interaction (DDI) is becoming a serious clinical safety issue as the use of multiple medications becomes more common. Searching the MEDLINE database for journal articles related to DDI produces over 330,000 results. It is impossible to read and summarize these references manually. As the volume of biomedical reference in the MEDLINE database continues to expand at a rapid pace, automa...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the time variation of topics in bioethical publications as a proxy of the relative importance. METHODS We searched the Medline database for bioethics publications using the words "ethics or bioethics", and for 360 specific topics publications, associating Medical Subject Heading topic descriptors to those words. We calculated the ratio of bioethics publications to the tot...

This study compared the usefulness of various CD-ROM versions of International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) and MEDLINE for pharmacy research. Journal coverage as well as the strengths and weaknesses of database structure and contents were considered. The journals indexed in each database were compared to those identified in a survey of the research journals most important to University of Ma...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to index the contents of the pre-MEDLINE American Journal of Roentgenology into a database that could then be accessed over the World Wide Web. CONCLUSION The database is composed of more than 8,000 citations from the years 1914 (volume 1) to 1965 (volume 95). Using a Web browser, a user can search the database by year, volume, title word, page, or auth...