Medical Databases

PubMed Central

Elsevier Biomedical database with a strong focus on drug and pharmaceutical research.

PEDro

It is a free database of over 60,000 trials, reviews and guidelines evaluating physiotherapy interventions

CINAHL

Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature

African Index Medicus (AIM)

African Index Medicus (AIM) is a database of health information from Africa. It provides access to journal articles, theses, and other resources on various health topics and regions.

AHILA

An international index to African health literature and information sources produced by the World Health Organization, in collaboration with the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA). Provide access to information published in or relating to Africa

Google Scholar

Searches specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

The Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.   

BASE

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): Basic Search (base-search.net)

OATD

Open Access Theses and Dissertations

EBSOCO

The Cochrane Library  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.   

BASE

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): Basic Search (base-search.net)

OATD

Open Access Theses and Dissertations

EBSOCO

Open Dissertations is a open-access citation database that provides information about dissertations and theses, with links to institutional repositories.