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Table 1 Description of electronic databases and resources

From: Database combinations to retrieve systematic reviews in overviews of reviews: a methodological study

 

Publisher

Access

Type

Coverage

CINAHL [10]

EBSCO

by subscription

indexed database

nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative medicine, and allied health topics

Embase [8]

Elsevier

by subscription

indexed database

biomedical literature, 1947 to present

Epistemonikos [16]

Epistemonikos foundation (non-profit)

free of charge

citations database, data scraped from other databases and the web

health evidence, nine supported languages [22, 23]

MEDLINE [7]

U.S. National Library of Medicine (non-profit)

free of charge

indexed database

biomedicine and health literature, 1966 to present [24]

PsycINFO [11]

EBSCO, American Psychological Association

by subscription

indexed database

behavioural science and mental health

TRIP [17]

Trip Inc.

free of charge

clinical search engine

health care [25]

  1. Psyc. topic = mental health- or psychology-related topic