Databases
of the Republican Scientific Medical Library
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:
- Electronic catalogue of the Republican Scientific Medical Library
- Rare medical publications
- WHO Regional Office for Europe documents
- Achievements of medical science in Belarus
- Modern methods of medical care
- Health care in Belarus. Directory of organizations and specialists
- Database of authoritative files “Personalities in the history of Belarusian medicine”
- Health care of the Belarusian SSR in forty years (1919-1958)
- Health care of the Belarusian SSR (1959-1968)
- MedArt
- “ConsultantPlus”, Reference legal system ilex.by
- “Etalon”, Information legal system of the National Centre for Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus
- Electronic Library of the Russian State Library
- 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.
Size: approximately 1,078,000 bibliographic records.
Period of updating: constantly.
Access: online.
2. Rare medical publications
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.
Size: 4,780 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 – present.
Size: 360 bibliographic records.
Period of updating: constantly.
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.
Size: 472 full-text documents.
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 permitted by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus to be applied in health institutions; it is a resource of printed collections of instructional-methodological documents “Modern methods of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases”.
Type: full-text.
Period of coverage: 1999 – present.
Size: 2,986 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; it is a resource of printed catalogues “Health сare in Belarus. Institutions. Services and Goods. Who is Who”.
Type: factographic.
Period of coverage: 1996 – present.
Size: 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.
Size: 390 personalities.
Period of updating: constantly.
Access: from library computers.
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, which appeared 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.
Size: 5,409 bibliographic records.
Period of updating: not updated.
Access: from library computers.
9. Health care of the Belarusian SSR (1959-1968)
The database contains information on documents on organization of public health and history of medicine of the BSSR, which appeared 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.
Size: 4,740 bibliographic records.
Period of updating: not updated.
Access: from library computers.
10. MedArt
The summary catalogue of periodicals and analyses on medicine is a medical scientific and educational resource oriented to medical scientists, students of medical universities and doctors of practical health care. The corporate database reflects the analytical inventory of medical journals available in the collections of partner libraries from Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan.
Type: bibliographic.
Period of coverage: 2000-2019.
Size: 398,027 bibliographic records.
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.