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Global Index Medicus Help Guide

Database with international coverage of Health Sciences topics.

View Results

  • Click on the article title to view more information about that item.
  • Click on an author name to see all articles by that author that are in Global Index Medicus.
  • Change the way all results are displayed using the Order by drop-down above the search results.
  • Click the "See more details" toggle on the right to display the search results as just the citation or citation and abstract.
  • In the record for an article, hover mouse over underlined words to see the definition and view in DeCS.

Filter Results

Filters on the Results page sidebar help you limit your results.

Default filters include:

  • Full text: only articles with free full text available through GIM
  • Index: limit to one or more regional indexes
  • Main subject: main topic(s) of article, based on MeSH/DeCS terms
  • Type of study: limit to one or more research methodologies
  • Language
  • Year range

More filters are available under the Add filters button at the top of the sidebar, including:

  • Clinical aspect: does not work as of 2024-02-28
  • Limits: Age, sex, and human/animal
  • Country/Region as subject: limit by country or region the article is about (not recommended for countries outside of Latin America*)
  • Year: List of years to choose from
  • Type: Publication type
  • Journal: limit by journal title
  • Journal subject

Once selected, filters remain in place until you change or remove them.

Note: For systematic and scoping reviews, the filters for main subject, study type, age, sex, and country/region are not recommended since they may not comprehensively capture the item of interest. This is true for PubMed filters as well.

*The Country/Region filter does not reliably identify articles about countries outside of Latin America as of Spring 2024. This stems from each region entering its own articles and not applying attributes consistently across regions. For countries outside of Latin America, it is more reliable to search on the names of the countries plus names of any broader regions (example: Sub-Saharan Africa).

Print, Email, Export Results

Select

Select an article by clicking the checkbox next to the article title on the search results page.

  • Selecting articles will add them to the List Items under Selection of Citations.
  • Selected articles persist between searches during the same session.
  • The List Items link can then be clicked to show all selected articles.

Deselect an article by clicking the checkbox again so the check goes away. 

Print 

You can print

  • a page of references or
  • selected references. 

Depending on your computer and printer setup, you may print to PDF or to your printer (printer support from UW IT and DAWG Prints at the UW). 

Page

From the search results, you may click Print on the right side of the page to print the page. Printing the page will print just the citations for each article as shown on the search results page. If you've already selected articles, you may still elect to print the page. 

Selected Articles

From the search results, you may select articles and then click Print on the right side of the page. You will then have the option to print the page you're on or print the Selected References (number of selections will be in parentheses). Selected References will print the citation from the search results page for each selected article only. 

Email 

You can email 

  • the page,
  • selected references (persistent during one session), or
  • all references in your search results (up to 300 results can be emailed).

From the search results, you may click Email on the right side of the page. Emailing results gives you the option to add your name, your email, who you want to send the results to, the email subject, and your comments. You may then select whether you want to send the page, selected references, or all references in your search results (up to 300 results). 

Export 

You can export

  • a page of references,
  • selected references, or
  • all references.

Format options are

  • RIS (typically works with your citation manager like EndNote),
  • CSV (works with most spreadsheet programs like Excel), or
  • citations (exports a text list of the citations).

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