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Abstract

WOOTTON, Richard & Hinda Rosenthal center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA have compiled the Directory of Databases with significant holdings of primarily bibliographic references to complementary and alternative medicine published research.

Background

Methodology

Results

The Directory is accessible from the Web site of the Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Columbia Universitys CPMCNet (http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/rosenthal/). There is a general selection criteria, a brief description of content and access or contact details are provided for each of the 56 databases. Thirty-six of the databases are available online over the Internet and 17 are publicly available. Thirteen search services and a further 8 databases are available in a variety of formats.

Conclusion

References

Wootton JC. Directory of databases for research into alternative and complementary medicine: an update. J Altern Complement Med 3(4): 401-3. Winter 1997.