Databases
1. PubMed
This free database comprises more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
A bibliographic database such as PubMed will provide a list of citations as a result of a search (ie author, article title, journal, year of publication and volume/issue/page details) but not the article itself.
In addition to citations, PubMed provides links (where they are available) to:
- summaries of the articles (called abstracts)
- the source of the article for online purchase
- the free full text of the article
Here is a search to try, that retrieves a manageable number of results and has examples of all the levels of information PubMed can supply. (Cut and paste or type the terms just as they appear here, in the search box at the top of the page)
2. HINARI
HINARI is the World Health Organization’s Access to Research in Health program. It is a database of over 7000 full text journals and books only available in developing countries such as Samoa for a small annual subscription fee. Biomedical Publishers donate their content on an annual basis so the range of resources can vary each year.
Oceania University of Medicine library in Samoa has a subscription to HINARI and the campus library staff can assist you in locating and printing articles you have found, for example through a PubMed search.