Indexing

Bases de Datos
cinahl CINAHL
It's a database specifically designed to meet the needs of nursing professionals, biomedicine, alternative medicine, and other 17 disciplines related to the health sciences. CINAHL Complete provides indexing to over 5,400 journals in the fields of nursing and related health, of which 1,300 are full-text with over 4.1 million records dating back to 1937. With full coverage of nursing journals and publications in English from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. The database is completed with a selection of books on health care, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, practice standards, educational software, audiovisuals.
ebsco EBSCO
It’s an online research platform that offers access to a wide range of databases, journals, and e-books. EBSCOhost databases are systematically organized collections of information, such as journal articles, books, theses, etc., with an interface that allows the user to access their databases and conduct searches.
EZB

EZB
It's an open access, full-text electronic library of scientific and academic journals. It is an initiative of the University of Regensburg, Germany, and offers access to over 70,000 journals from over 5,000 publishers. The journals are organized by subject, and users can search by title, keyword, publisher, or subject. It also lists the most popular journals and the newest additions, making it a valuable resource for students, researchers, and professionals around the world. Users can quickly and easily access a wealth of information without having to pay for subscriptions.

 

proquest

ProQuest
It’s offers a wide range of bibliographic databases, covering a large number of subjects and areas of knowledge. These databases contain information on journal articles, books, reports, theses, and other documents where users can perform their searches by title, author, keyword, or subject.

 

scielo SciELO Colombia
It's an electronic platform that is part of the SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) project, which aims to promote the dissemination and open access to high-quality scientific journals in Latin America and the Caribbean. SciELO Colombia is, therefore, an initiative that seeks to strengthen scientific communication in Colombia, offering a collection of academic journals from various disciplines. These journals are selected and evaluated by an editorial committee, ensuring their quality and scientific rigor.

Directorios

cuiden

CUIDEN
It's a Bibliographic Database of the Index Foundation that includes scientific production on Health Care in the Ibero-American scientific space, both of clinical-assistance content in all its specialties and of health promotion, as well as with methodological, historical, social or cultural approaches. In addition, they have an option called CUIDEN Plus, which is an advanced version with exclusive access to Ciberindex subscribers that allows you to retrieve bibliographic references with the author's abstract, access the full text of the documents (when they are available in open access or in the Cantárida Newspaper Archive), and know the scientific impact of the main journals included.

 

doaj

DOAJ

It’s a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from all over the world, powered by a growing community committed to ensuring that quality content is freely available online for everyone.

 

latindex

Latindex

It’s a regional online academic journal information system that specializes in scientific journals published in Ibero-America. It is a non-profit, inter-institutional cooperation project that aims to promote and improve the quality of scientific journals in the region.

 

 REDIB

REDIB
It’s a platform that aims to promote the dissemination and open access to scientific knowledge produced in Ibero-America. It is a collaborative initiative that brings together various institutions, libraries, and scientific publications in the region. In this sense, REDIB provides access to a wide variety of academic resources, including scientific journals, doctoral theses, books, conference proceedings, and other scientific documents. In addition, it provides tools and services for the management and dissemination of knowledge, as well as for collaboration between researchers and academics.

 

Ulrichs Ulrichs Web Global Serials Directory
It’s a bibliographic database that provides information on over 383,000 serial publications from around the world. The database includes information on academic journals, trade journals, newspapers, newsletters, electronic journals, and other serial publications.

Índices bibliográficos

biblat

Biblat
It's a bibliographic database specialized in the field of Law, Social Sciences and Humanities. It focuses on academic and scientific literature produced in Latin America and the Caribbean, although it also includes publications from other places as long as they are focused on the region, in disciplines such as law, sociology, political science, economics, anthropology, and history, among others.

 

clase CLASE
It's a tool that provides detailed bibliographic information, including author, title, source, abstract, and citation data, which allows users to identify and locate the original sources of interest. However, CLASE does not offer direct access to the full text of documents, as it is a reference tool for locating and accessing relevant information sources in the field of social sciences and humanities in Latin America.
 
dialnet

Dialnet
It’s an online bibliographic and periodical database that provides access to a wide variety of academic and scientific content in Spanish. It focuses on Hispanic literature and is especially oriented towards the disciplines of humanities, social sciences, health sciences, and legal sciences.

 

embase

EMBASE
It's a widely recognized bibliographic database in the field of biomedicine and life sciences, providing comprehensive coverage of scientific literature, including journal articles, conference abstracts, technical reports, and more. EMBASE is known for its focus on pharmacology and clinical medicine, but it also covers other fields such as genetics, molecular biology, biomedical research, and some branches of the social sciences and humanities.

 

esci ESCI
It's a database of journals that can also be accessed from Web of Science. It was created in 2015 with the aim of indexing journals that are in the process of being evaluated for inclusion in the Web of Knowledge (WoS), or journals that, although they have a recognized scientific quality in their discipline, will never be included in WoS because their field of knowledge is too limited to achieve a sufficiently high Impact Factor.
 
Europe PMC

Europe PMC
It’s an open access bibliographic database that provides access to abstracts and full articles from scientific and life science journals from around the world. The database is produced by EMBL-EBI, a non-profit research organization based in the United Kingdom.

 

imbiomed

Imbiomed
It’s a bibliographic database that provides access to abstracts and full articles from medical and scientific journals, as well as to other medical information resources, such as practice guidelines, clinical practice guidelines, and research reports. The database is produced by Elsevier, a Dutch-based information and research services company.

 

IRESiE

IRESiE
It’s a bibliographic database that indexes articles from journals, books, theses, and other documents on higher education and educational research published in Mexico and Latin America. The database is published by the Institute for Research on the University and Education (IISUE) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and is available in Spanish.

 

lilacs

LILACS
It’s a regional database that provides bibliographic control of scientific and technical literature in the health sciences, published in the countries of the Latin American and Caribbean region. The mission of LILACS is to provide visibility and access to the quality scientific and technical production that is produced in Latin America and the Caribbean and to provide contextualized scientific evidence to the local reality for decision-making in health in the Region.

 

Medline

MEDLINE
It's the main bibliographic database of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) that contains millions of references about journal articles in the life sciences with a concentration in biomedicine. A distinctive characteristic of this database is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). MEDLINE is the main component of PubMed, a literature database developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) of NLM.

 

miar

MIAR
It's a bibliographic database that indexes scientific and academic journals in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities. It is published by the University of Barcelona (UB) and is available in Spanish. It indexes more than 10,000 scientific and academic journals from all over the world, covering a wide range of topics related to the disciplines that belong to Social Sciences and Humanities.

 

Periódica

Periódica
It’s an Index of Latin American Scientific Journals whose database offers bibliographic records of original articles, technical reports, case studies, short communications, and other documents published in Latin American and Caribbean journals specialized in all areas of medicine, exact and natural sciences.

 

Pubmed

PubMed
It’s an open-access database, created and maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine. This database includes millions of citations in the areas of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the healthcare system, and the preclinical sciences.

 

redalyc

Redalyc
It's a bibliographic indexing system that integrates high-quality scientific and editorial journals from the region into its index. After 16 years of providing visibility and supporting the consolidation of journals, it now exclusively integrates those that share the non-profit publishing model to preserve the academic and open nature of scientific communication in the region.

 

Scopus

Scopus
It's a bibliographic and abstract database that covers a wide range of academic disciplines. It is considered one of the largest databases of scientific, technical, and medical literature currently available. Scopus is produced by Elsevier and contains millions of records of scientific journal articles, conferences, books, and patents. As such, Scopus provides detailed information on articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals, including abstracts, citations, bibliographic references, and impact metrics. Scopus also provides search and analysis tools to help researchers discover and assess scientific literature, track citations, identify trends and collaborators, and assess the impact of research.

 

SJR SJR
It’s a bibliometric indicator that assesses the importance and prestige of scientific journals based on their impact and visibility in the academic community. SJR is a measure developed by Scimago Lab, a research group affiliated with the University of Granada, Spain. The SJR indicator is based on the PageRank algorithm, used by Google to rank the relevance of web pages in its search results. SJR uses information from the Scopus database to calculate the impact of scientific journals, considering not only the number of citations received by the articles published in a journal, but also the importance of the citations from other high-prestige journals.