BELIT - Bioethics Literature Database

Alternative title
BELIT - Bioethik-Literaturdatenbank

Database access via ETHICSWEB

Database codes

• BELIT: DRZE
• BELIT: ETHMED © IDEM
• BELIT: LEWI (IZEW)
• BELIT: CDE

Publication types

• Books (monographs, academic dissertations, collective works, reference works
• Book contributions (analytics)
• Journal articles
• Newspaper articles
• Legal documents (laws, bills, regulations, court decisions)
• Grey literature
• Reports
• Guidelines
• Statements
• Proceedings
• Parliamentary publications
• Electronic documents

Languages
English, German, French (mainly)

Links to full text
Yes

Number of records
179,470 (2011-11-14)

Update frequency
Fortnightly

Controlled vocabulary used for indexing

• Thesaurus Ethics in the Life Sciences
• Thesaurus d'éthique des sciences de la vie et de la santé
• ETHMED Thesaurus
  Contains the Bioethics Thesaurus, additional terms reflecting European contexts and terms mainly from MeSH and Thesaurus Ethics in the Life Sciences.

Producer
German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE)
Bonner Talweg 57
53113 Bonn
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)228 3364 1939
Email: library@drze.de
http://www.drze.de

Database access via producer

Notes
BELIT is an integrated bibliographic database developed by the German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE, Bonn, Germany) and operated in co-operation with

• the Information and Documentation Centre on Ethics in Medicine (IDEM, Göttingen, Germany),
• the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), University of Tübingen (Germany),
• the Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University, Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE, Washington, DC, USA) and
• the Centre de documentation en éthique (CDE), Comité consultatif national d'éthique (CCNE, Paris, France).

The ETHICSWEB search interface currently provides access to bibliographic records contributed by the following BELIT co-operation partners:

• DRZE: catalogue of the specialist library and documentation centre (BELIT: DRZE)
• IDEM: database ETHMED containing references to literature available at the specialist library and documentation centre (BELIT: ETHMED © IDEM)
• IZEW: database LEWI containing the catalogues of the IZEW library and the library of the Chair for Ethics in the Life Sciences at the University of Tübingen (BELIT: LEWI (IZEW))
• CDE: database of the specialist library and documentation centre (BELIT: CDE)

Keywords
Bioethics; Medical ethics; Ethics of genetics; Ethics of biotechnology; Agricultural ethics; Environmental ethics; Ethics of science; Bibliographic databases