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NISH (NITAG Support Hub) 1 - General: Where evidence was searched

What are library guides? Library guides are helpful resources that provide users with information and guidance on how to effectively use resources and services.

Journal databases

Journal Databases - for a range of materials including systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials:

  • MEDLINE
    Recognised as the premier international index of biomedical literature
  • PubMed
    Effectively the public equivalent of MEDLINE, and free to all users.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

More resources on acquiring evidence

Articles

Clinical colleagues as source of evidence

Up to now we have concentrated on published sources of evidence, mainly as reported in journal articles and available in databases and other online sources.

Clinical colleagues and peers can be another source of evidence.

Don't forget that the process of evidence-based practice involves combining the best research evidence with clinical expertise. This clinical expertise might be your own, but also might be that of colleagues and peers with whom you work or associate.

Grey literature

Grey literature "refers to print or electronic literature that is produced by government, academia, business and industry, and is not controlled by commercial publishers ... i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body."  (ICGL Luxembourg definition, 1997. Expanded in New York, 2004.)

Grey literature does not form a part of traditional publishing, and is not widely disseminated. It can include a huge range of resources form theses and dissertations, through conference proceedings, government documents, and research reports to digital repositories and registers of clinical trials.

Grey literature sources

Open Access

Type of reference

Name

Link

Open Access

Systematic Reviews

NITAG Resource Centre

https://www.nitag-resource.org/resources

Open Access

Info on VPD

WHO Afro

https://aho.afro.who.int/

Open Access

Info on VPD

West African Health Organization (WAHO)

https://www.wahooas.org/web-ooas/publications-et-recherches

Open Access

Info on VPD

Sabin Vaccine Institute

https://www.wahooas.org/web-ooas/publications-et-recherches

Open Access

Access to journals

HINARI/Research4Life

https://www.research4life.org/about/programs/hinari/

Open Access

Systematic Reviews

Cochrane

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/?contentLanguage=eng

Open Access

Modeling

IVAV-AC

https://www.who.int/groups/immunization-and-vaccines-related-implementation-research-advisory-committee

Open Access

Polio

Polio Global Eradication Initiative

https://polioeradication.org/

Open Access

Measles and Rubella

Measles and Rubella Partnership

https://measlesrubellapartnership.org/

Open Access

Cholera

Global Task Force on Cholera Control

https://www.gtfcc.org/about-gtfcc/

Open Access

Data on VPD

WHO Immunization Data portal

https://immunizationdata.who.int/global?topic=&location=

Open Access

Info on VPD

CDC Pink Book

https://www.cdc.gov/pinkbook/hcp/table-of-contents/index.html

Open Access

Info on VPD

WHO Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals

https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals

Open Access

Google Scholar (Google Acadmico)

https://scholar.google.com.br/schhp?hl=pt-PT

Open Access

Info on VPD

WHO SAGE documentation tool search

https://www.who.int/groups/strategic-advisory-group-of-experts-on-immunization/sage-documentation-search-tool

Open Access

Malaria

Malaria Policy Advisory Group

https://www.who.int/groups/malaria-policy-advisory-group

Open Access

Antibiomicral Resistance (Antibiotic)

IVB’s Product and Delivery Research (PDR)

https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/product-and-delivery-research/anti-microbial-resistance