Databases

Users of Republican Scientific Medical Library have the opportunity to access databases created and purchased by the library. Subscription and open-source electronic resources that can be used on the library’s local network, as well as from a home or work computer, can become reliable help in the search for scientific information.To order a subject search, to consult on the use of the databases, to connect remote access to some of them, as well as other questions, please contact the catalogue room (room 310), tel.: 367-26-44, e-mail: rnmbminsk@rsml.med.by.

Please note that the library provides thematic information search services on the basis of available information resources (for a fee). Please email rnmbminsk@rsml.med.by with your name, library card number, subject, keywords, depth of search and contact phone number.

Databases created by the library:

1. Electronic catalogue of the Republican Scientific Medical Library
2. Rare medical publications
3. WHO Regional Office for Europe documents
4. Achievements of medical science in Belarus
5. Modern methods of medical care
6. Health care in Belarus. Directory of organizations and specialists
7. Database of authoritative files “Personalities in the history of Belarusian medicine”
8. Health care of the Belarusian SSR in forty years (1919-1958)
9. Health care of the Belarusian SSR (1959-1968)
10. MedArt

Purchased databases:

1. 1. “ConsultantPlus”, Reference legal system ilex.by
   2. “Etalon”, Information legal system of the National Centre for Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus
   3. Electronic Library of the Russian State Library
   4. Electronic Library loan of the Central Scientific Medical Library of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

Databases created by the library:

1. Electronic сatalogue of the Republican Scientific Medical Library

The database on medicine, healthcare and related fields of knowledge. It contains information about books, dissertation abstracts, theses, periodicals, articles from journals and anthologies from the library collection. The digitized part of the collection (scientific articles, book excerpts) is accessible from the library’s computers, as well as through the ” Electronic medical library” service.

Type: bibliographic, with access to full texts of selected documents (scientific articles, book excerpts).
Period of coverage: 1675 – present.
Volume: approximately 1,131,291 bibliographic records.
Period of updating: constantly.
Access: online.

2. Rare medical editions

The database contains bibliographic information about rare and unique editions on medicine and healthcare of the first half of the 19th century – the first half of the 20th century from the collection of the RSML. The digitized part of the collection can be accessed from the library’s computers.

Type: bibliographic, with access to full texts of selected documents.
Period of coverage: 1809 – 1945.
Volume: 5,629 bibliographic records.
Period of updating: annually in the part of full texts.
Access: online.

3. WHO Regional Office for Europe documents

The database contains information on WHO European Regional Office health guidelines, reviews, reports, recommendations, reports, action plans; it includes hyperlinks to the full text of the documents, which can be found on the official WHO web site.

Type: bibliographic; includes links to full texts in original sources.
Period of coverage: 2000 – 2019.
Volume: 360 bibliographic records.
Period of updating: not updated.
Access: online.

4. Achievements of medical science in Belarus

The database on the most important achievements of medical science obtained as a result of research activities of the institutions of the Republic of Belarus; it is a source of the peer-reviewed scientific yearbooks “Achievements of medical Science in Belarus”.

Type: full-text.
Period of coverage: 1999-2019.
Volume: 472 full-text documents.

Period of updating: not updated.
Access: online.

5. Modern methods of medical care (diagnosis, treatment and medical prevention of diseases, medical rehabilitation of patients, prosthetics)

The database of instructional-methodological materials on new methods of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases, organizational forms of work authorized by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus to be applied in health institutions.

Type: full-text.
Period of coverage: 1999 – present.
Volume: 3,147 full-text documents.
Period of updating: constantly.
Access: online.

6. Health care in Belarus. Directory of organizations and specialists

The database on health care institutions of Belarus, major enterprises and firms operating in the medical market of the republic, managers and leading specialists.

Type: factographic.
Period of coverage: 1996 – present.
Volume: 7,032 records.
Period of updating: constantly.
Access: online.

7. Database of authoritative files “Personalities in the history of Belarusian medicine”.

The database contains biobibliographical information about outstanding scientists and specialists of Belarus in the field of health care and medicine. It is an identification tool that offers variants of reading, contains reference information: surname, first name, patronymic of author; brief biographical data; field of scientific interests; information about work, scientific and public activity; information about scientific works.

Type: factographic.
Period of coverage: 19th century – present.
Volume: 847 personalities.
Period of updating: constantly.
Access: online.

8. Health сare of the Belarusian SSR in forty years (1919-1958)

The database contains information on documents on health organization and history of medicine of BSSR, published as separate editions, journal and newspaper articles, reviews, and articles from various collections; it is the electronic analogue of the bibliography “Health care of BSSR during forty years (1919-1958)”. (Minsk, 1961).

Type: bibliographic.
Period of coverage: 1919-1958.
Volume: 5,409 bibliographic records.
Period of updating: not updated.
Access: online.

9. Health care of the Belarusian SSR (1959-1968)

The database contains information on documents on health organization and history of medicine of the BSSR, published as separate editions, journal and newspaper articles, reviews, and articles from various collections; it is electronic analogue of the bibliography “Health care of BSSR, 1919-1958” (Minsk, 1971).

Type: bibliographic.
Period of coverage: 1959-1968.
Volume: 4,740 bibliographic records.
Period of updating: not updated.
Access: online.

Purchased databases:

1. “ConsultantPlus”, Reference legal system ilex.by

The legal database includes “ConsultantPlus: Belarus” and “ConsultantPlus: Russia” reference legal systems. It contains full texts of codes, decrees, ordinances, laws, resolutions, legal and regulatory acts of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, reference information and financial consultations. It is maintained by the Regional Information Centre of All-Russia Legal Information Dissemination Network “ConsultantPlus” “JurSpectr” LLC. ilex.by is an online service of ready-made legal solutions in accounting, taxation and law from the company “JurSpektr” LLC.

2. “Etalon”, Information legal system of the National Centre of Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus

It includes three databanks: the Legislation of the Republic of Belarus, Decisions of local government and self-government bodies, International treaties. It contains the full texts of decrees, laws, resolutions, international treaties, legal and regulatory acts, codes of the Republic of Belarus, as well as reference information. All texts of legal acts are presented up-to-date with the ability to view the history of all changes and (or) additions.

3. Electronic Library of the Russian State Library

The electronic library contains about 1.5 million full texts of dissertations, abstracts and other types of publications on various branches of science, including medical, pharmaceutical, chemical, biological, physical and mathematical, technical, philological, philosophical, economic and legal, as well as works on architecture, art history, etc. Of these, more than 690,000 documents are publicly available for reading and copying. The database additionally includes collections of old printed books, scientific and educational literature, handwritten materials, and image editions.

4. Electronic Library loan of the Central Scientific Medical Library of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

The first project in Russia that implements the right of libraries to freely provide documents stored in their funds for temporary use via the Internet in full compliance with Russian copyright protection legislation.
The services of the Electronic Library loan of the Central Scientific Medical Library are available only to authorized users who have previously subscribed.
For unauthorized users, it is only possible to search and view the bibliographic description of the found documents.