title: Specialist Bibliographic Databases.
abstract: Specialist bibliographic databases offer essential online tools for researchers and authors who work on specific subjects and perform comprehensive and systematic syntheses of evidence. This article presents examples of the established specialist databases, which may be of interest to those engaged in multidisciplinary science communication. Access to most specialist databases is through subscription schemes and membership in professional associations. Several aggregators of information and database vendors, such as EBSCOhost and ProQuest, facilitate advanced searches supported by specialist keyword thesauri. Searches of items through specialist databases are complementary to those through multidisciplinary research platforms, such as PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. Familiarizing with the functional characteristics of biomedical and nonbiomedical bibliographic search tools is mandatory for researchers, authors, editors, and publishers. The database users are offered updates of the indexed journal lists, abstracts, author profiles, and links to other metadata. Editors and publishers may find particularly useful source selection criteria and apply for coverage of their peer-reviewed journals and grey literature sources. These criteria are aimed at accepting relevant sources with established editorial policies and quality controls.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Rheumatology and Research and Development, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (Teaching Trust of the University of Birmingham, UK), Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, West Midlands, UK .
authors.forename: Armen Yuri
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-8749-6018
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Gasparyan
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Biology and Microbiology, South Kazakhstan State Pharmaceutical Academy, Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
authors.forename: Marlen
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-2511-6918
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yessirkepov
authors.affiliation: Department of Marketing and Trade Deals, Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russian Federation .
authors.forename: Alexander A
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-8505-7345
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Voronov
authors.affiliation: Department of Technological Management, Stavropol State Agrarian University, Stavropol, Russian Federation .
authors.forename: Vladimir I
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-4676-5407
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Trukhachev
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Accounting and Finance, Department of Accounting Management, Stavropol State Agrarian University, Stavropol, Russian Federation .
authors.forename: Elena I
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-8393-6001
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Kostyukova
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Stavropol State Agrarian University, Stavropol, Russian Federation .
authors.forename: Alexey N
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-1244-4755
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Gerasimov
authors.affiliation: Departments of Rheumatology and Research and Development, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (Teaching Trust of the University of Birmingham, UK), Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, West Midlands, UK.; Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: George D
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-0828-6176
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Kitas
mesh_terms: D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D016208:Databases, Factual; D035081:Editorial Policies; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing
keywords: Abstracting and Indexing as Topic; Bibliographic Databases; Editorial Policies; Information Retrieval; Periodicals as Topic; Publishing; Systematic Reviews