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Helsinki University Library

Medic - the Finnish reference database of health sciences

Medic is a Finnish health sciences database established in 1978.

The database is produced by Meilahti Campus Library Terkko. It contains references to Finnish medical and health sciences literature: articles, books, dissertations and reports published in Finland and not included in international databases.

The database contains approximately 100 000 references. Approximately 4000 references are entered annually.

Since Medic is a Finnish database, most of the publications and the database interface are in Finnish.

Subject matter

Medic contains references to Finnish health related publications. It includes medical, dental and nursing publications. Furthermore, life science literature relevant to medicine is included, as well as publications of interest from other fields, for example law and philosophy.

The main reference selection principle is that the publication must have been published in Finland and is not included in international databases. Language of the publication is irrelevant in the selection process.

Publication types

Publication types entered in Medic are

  • Articles

In addition to scientific periodicals, articles are selected from periodicals published by occupational and patient societies. At the moment articles are selected from 80 periodicals.

Inclusion criteria:
Original articles, review articles, case studies and biographies are included.
Consideration is used with the following article types: project descriptions, conference proceedings, editorials, letters, news and interviews.

  • Books
  • Book chapters
  • Dissertations (medical, dental, nursing) and master’s thesis (nursing)
  • Research institute and government agency reports

Reference structure

A reference consists of the publication´s bibliographic information, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH & FinMeSH), annotations and key words if needed. If the publication is available on the Internet, a link to the fulltext is also provided.

Example reference:

Indexing

MeSH and FinMeSH

The indexing languages used in Medic are the US National Library of Medicine´s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and its Finnish counterpart FinMeSH, which is produced by the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim. Both the MeSH and the FinMeSH vocabularies are integrated into the Medic interface.

Key words
When considered essential from an information retrieval perspective, indexers can add additional free key words.

Medic licences

Organizational licenses (educational institutions, research institutes, public libraries etc.) allow members of the organization to use the database. The yearly fee for educational institutions and research institutes is based on the organization´s FTE.
The fee for public libraries is based on the number of inhabitants of the area.
Private persons can also buy access to the database.
From the beginning of the year 2006 Medic has been also a part of FinELib-consortium resources (Finnish National Electronic Library).

For more information about Medic, please contact: terkko-tietopalvelu [ ät ] helsinki.fi

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