4 search engines

My prefered 3 french search engines are:

1) http://doccismef.chu-rouen.fr/servlets/Simple

2) http://www.bdsp.ehesp.fr/Base/SearchForm

3)http://www.refdoc.fr/Noticeresultat?critere=dateDesc

Another good search engine for the international literature

4) http://www.sciencedirect.com/

create an alert for your references

You can create an alert to search for keys words of your article on the world wide web and extract references automaticaly:

http://www.google.com/alerts

grey litterature and systematic reviews data bases

Unpublished research (grey litterature) and systematic review about your research subject can be obtained in the following databases:

1) The NHS archives from early 2000 up to september 2007:

http://www.nihr.ac.uk/Pages/NRRArchiveSearch.aspx

2) Current archives of the clinical research studies supported by the NHS:

http://public.ukcrn.org.uk/search/

3) Systematic reviews on effects of interventions used in health and social care, on health technology assesment and on economic evaluation :

http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/

4) Systematic reviews about health and social care evidence to support decision making.

http://www.metaxis.com/PROSPERO/

US national library of medicine

One single tool for searching references in : articles, journals citations, drug information, current clinical trials, full texts biomedical books, meetings abstracts, mendelian inheritance,mutagenecity, chemical carcinogenesis, reproductive and toxicity risk.  What else?

http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd?GMResultsSummary%26loc=nccs

You must type your searched words between ” ” and if author name folowed by [AU]:

for example:

“mediator”

“ha-vinh” [AU]

research tools for references

google scholar

http://scholar.google.fr/schhp?hl=fr&as_sdt=2000&as_vis=1

Us National library of medicine and National institutes of health (PUBMED)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/advanced

scientific research tool, contains also pre print material

http://www.scirus.com/