title: A comparison of biomedical databases.
abstract: Various published bibliographic and abstract services covering the period 1970-1988 were compared to analyze scope and coverage. A total of 7,281 articles and book titles (1,655 Soviet and 5,626 foreign) were selected on forty-one topics in different medical fields. The titles originated from three different samples but included all Soviet medical literature on the subjects. A distribution of biomedical serials from five databases is given by country, and twelve indices to assess the quality of biomedical databases are suggested.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation in Dentistry, N.A. Semashko Moscow Medical Stomatological Institute, U.S.S.R.
authors.forename: A Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Mychko-Megrin
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008523:MEDLARS; D016239:MEDLINE; D014586:USSR