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Key Resources
- CAB Direct (CAB Abstracts & Global Health) This link opens in a new windowInternational coverage of articles in agriculture, forestry, global health, human nutrition, animal health, natural resources management and conservation.
- MEDLINE (Ovid) This link opens in a new windowPremier biomedical database with over 30 million journal articles in the life sciences. Similar to Pubmed in content, this Ovid interface facilitates structured searching and allows editing of search histories.
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new windowA complete online collection of journals, books, and statistical series and databases published by the OECD since 1998. Use for: full-text access to books, journals and statistics from the OECD.
- Global Index MedicusIncludes Index Medicus for Africa, South-East Asia, and other regions. Not all materials available in full text.
- Evidence AidEvidence-based resources for the humanitarian sector.
- EldisProvides access to information relating to international development issues. Contains links to free, full-text documents.
Featured resources
- LMIC Search FiltersTested and validated terms you can add to your search to focus it on low and middle income countries.
- How we classify countries and people - and why it mattersEditorial from BMJ Global Health examining the terminology used in scholarly literature
- The use, misuse and overuse of the ‘low-income and middle-income countries’ categoryEditorial from BMJ Global Health urging use of alternatives to LMIC as a category.
- Recalibrating the scope of scholarly publishing: a modest step in a vast decolonization processThis study shows the importance of searching resources besides Web of Science and Scopus to find research in global health.
UBC Sites
- Global Health Online Networkrequires login with CWL.
- SURG 560 Graduating ProjectsReports from the field practicums completed by students in the Master's of Global Surgical Care program.