The following databases are accessible via the ETHICSWEB database search interface:
Alternative title
BELIT - Bioethik-Literaturdatenbank
Database codes
Publication types
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
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
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 ETHICSWEB search interface currently provides access to bibliographic records contributed by the following BELIT co-operation partners:
Keywords
Bioethics; Medical ethics; Ethics of genetics; Ethics of biotechnology; Agricultural ethics; Environmental ethics; Ethics of science; Bibliographic databases
Alternative title
Bioetikos bibliografija
Database code
LI-VIUB
Publication types
Languages
Lithuanian (mainly), English
Links to full text
Yes
Number of records
488 (2011-11-14)
Update frequency
Annualy
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
Thesaurus Ethics in the Life Sciences
Producer
Regional Bioethics Information Centre (RBIC)
Department of Medical History and Ethics (MIES)
Vilnius University
M. K. Čiurlionio str. 21/27
LT-03101 Vilnius
Lithuania
Phone: +370 (0)5 239 8743
Email: mies@mf.vu.lt
http://www.rbic.mf.vu.lt/en
Notes
The Bibliography of Bioethics in Lithuania database is a collection of various monographs and scientific articles on bioethics published by Lithuanian authors. The database provides bibliographic information about books, articles published in Lithuanian and international journals as well as legislation of the Republic of Lithuania concerning bioethical issues. The database comprises publications from 1971 to 2011.
Keywords
Bioethics; Medical ethics; Ethics of science; Ethics of genetics; Bibliographic databases
Database code
BIOS: IBMI
Publication types
Languages
Slovenian, English
Links to full text
Yes (partly)
Number of records
218 (2011-11-14)
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Producer
Institute for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics (IBMI)
Faculty of Medicine
University of Ljubljana
Vrazov trg 2
SI-1104 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Phone: +386 (0)1 543 77 70
Email: ibmi@mf.uni-lj.si
http://ibmi.mf.uni-lj.si
Notes
Biomedicina Slovenica is the Slovenian national bibliographic database for the field of biomedical sciences. It covers the works published in Slovenia and the works of Slovenian authors published abroad which meet the quality standards and bibliographic criteria.
In ETHICSWEB, Biomedicina Slovenica provides references to literature on bioethical issues.
Keywords
Medical ethics; Nursing ethics; Bibliographic databases
Database code
BELIT: CDE
Publication types
Languages
French (mainly)
Links to full text
Yes
Number of records
11,192 (2011-11-14)
Update frequency
Irregularly
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
Thesaurus d'éthique des sciences de la vie et de la santé
Producer
Comité consultatif national d'éthique (CCNE)
Centre de documentation en éthique
35, rue Saint-Dominique
75007 Paris
France
Phone: +33 (0)1 42 75 66 43
Email: bongiorni@comite-ethique.fr
http://www.ccne-ethique.fr
Notes
The database of the Centre de documentation en éthique is integrated into the ETHICSWEB portal via BELIT.
Keywords
Bioethics; Medical ethics; Ethics of genetics; Ethics of biotechnology; Bibliographic databases
Database code
EEL: CSEP
Publication types
Languages
English
Links to full text
Yes
Number of records
4,407 (2011-11-14))
Producer
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP)
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Hermann Hall, Rm. 204
3241 S Federal Street
Chicago, IL 60616
USA
Phone: +1 312 567 6913
Email: laas@iit.edu
http://ethics.iit.edu
Notes
The Ethics Education Library (EEL) seeks to help connect people interested in developing new and interesting ethics training methods and programs, to disseminate best practices and tools that have already been developed, and to ultimately foster the creation of new methods and programs for teaching students about ethical issues inherent in research and practice.
EEL collects materials focusing on the teaching of practical and professional ethics. It features scholarly articles, books, reports from government and academic institutions, case studies, syllabi, and examples of what others have done to integrate ethics into their grant proposals, courses, or university program.
Keywords
Professional ethics; Ethics of science; Bioethics; Ethics education; Teaching methods; Bibliographic databases
Database codes
Publication types
Languages
Polish, Italian, Dutch, French, English
Links to full text
Yes
Number of records
1,110 (2005-12)
Update frequency
No updates
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
Thesaurus Ethics in the Life Sciences
(2nd ed., August 2005 used for indexing)
Producer
International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)
University of Tübingen
Wilhelmstraße 19
72074 Tübingen
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)7071 29 77985
Email: bibliothek@izew.uni-tuebingen.de
http://www.izew.uni-tuebingen.de
Notes
In the framework of the Eureth.net project, the European Network of Documentation for Ethics of Biotechnology (ENDEBIT) has created a European bibliographic database on ethics of biotechnology.
The ETHICSWEB search interface currently provides access to bibliographic records contributed by the following ENDEBIT co-operation partners:
Keywords
Ethics of biotechnology; Ethics of genetics; Agricultural ethics; Environmental ethics; Bibliographic databases; European Union
Alternative title
ETHMED - Ethik in der Medizin
Database code
BELIT: ETHMED © IDEM
Publication types
Languages
German (mainly), English
Links to full text
Yes
Number of records
14,834 (2011-11-14)
Update frequency
Quarterly
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
ETHMED Thesaurus
Contains the Bioethics Thesaurus, additional terms reflecting European contexts and terms mainly from MeSH and Thesaurus Ethics in the Life Sciences.
Producer
Information and Documentation Centre on Ethics in Medicine (IDEM)
Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
University Medical Center Göttingen
Humboldtallee 36
37073 Göttingen
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)551 39 9577
Email: susanne.raphael@medizin.uni-goettingen.de
http://www.idem.uni-goettingen.de
Notes
IDEM provides the literature database ETHMED since 1993. It contains references to publications from German-speaking but also from English-speaking countries. For this purpose IDEM analyses over 160 journals from different academic disciplines (medicine, nursing science, health care economics, natural sciences, philosophy and theology as well as law, economics and social sciences) in search for publications on medical ethics.
ETHMED is integrated into the ETHICSWEB portal via BELIT.
Keywords
Medical ethics; Nursing ethics; Clinical ethics; Bibliographic databases
Publication types
Links to full text
Yes
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
Producer
Karolinska Institutet University Library (KIB)
Fe 200
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)8 524 84 000
Email: ub@ki.se
http://kib.ki.se
Notes
In the framework of the Eureth.net project, the EUROETHICS network has created a European bibliographic database on ethics in medicine.
The ETHICSWEB search interface currently provides access to bibliographic records contributed by the following EUROETHICS co-operation partners:
Keywords
Medical ethics; Nursing ethics; Clinical ethics; Bioethics; Bibliographic databases; European Union
Alternative title
LEWI - Literatur zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften
Database code
BELIT: LEWI (IZEW)
Publication types
Languages
English, German (mainly)
Links to full text
Yes
Number of records
42,383 (2011-11-14)
Update frequency
Irregularly
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
Producer
International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)
University of Tübingen
Wilhelmstraße 19
72074 Tübingen
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)7071 29 77985
Email: bibliothek@izew.uni-tuebingen.de
http://www.izew.uni-tuebingen.de
Notes
The bibliographic database LEWI provides references to literature on ethics in the sciences and humanities and has a particular focus on ethics of biotechnology. It contains the catalogues of the IZEW library and the library of the Chair for Ethics in the Life Sciences at the University of Tübingen.
LEWI is integrated into the ETHICSWEB portal via BELIT.
Keywords
Ethics of science; Ethics of biotechnology; Ethics of genetics; Agricultural ethics; Environmental ethics; Bioethics; Bibliographic databases
Database code
NANO: CSEP
Publication types
Languages
English (mainly)
Links to full text
Yes
Number of records
1,644 (2011-11-14)
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
Producer
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP)
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Hermann Hall, Rm. 204
3241 S Federal Street
Chicago, IL 60616
USA
Phone: +1 312 567 3017
Email: csep@iit.edu
http://ethics.iit.edu
Notes
The NanoEthicsBank is a database conceived as a resource for researchers, scholars, students and the general public who are interested in the social and ethical implications of nanotechnology. Items in the database include normative documents, such as guidelines for safety in the workplace, and descriptive materials, such as analysis of the U.S. government's capacity for oversight and studies of the media coverage of nanotechnology.
Keywords
Nanoethics; Bibliographic databases
Database code
PUBMED: NLM
Publication types
List of all publication types found in PubMed
Languages
English (mainly), German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Japanese, Russian
Links to full text
Yes
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Producer
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
U.S. National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda MD, 20894
USA
Phone: +1 301 496 2475
Email: info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Notes
The PubMed Bioethics Subset is based on a search strategy that was created by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE) at Georgetown University to facilitate searching PubMed for citations to articles in the area of bioethics.
Keywords
Medical ethics; Nursing ethics; Clinical ethics; Ethics of genetics; Bioethics; Ethics of science; Bibliographic databases
Database code
SIBIL: ISS
Publication types
Languages
Italian (mainly), English
Links to full text
Yes
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
Italian Bioethics Thesaurus (TIB)
Producer
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Settore Documentazione
Viale Regina Elena, 299
00161 Roma
Italy
Phone: +39 (0)6 4990 3276
Email: documentazione@iss.it
http://www.iss.it
Notes
The SIBIL database provides bibliographic references to literature on bioethical issues published in Italy since 1995. It includes references, keywords and some abstracts of monographs, journal articles, opinions of ethics committees (especially those from the National Bioethics Committee), statutes, ethical guidelines, grey literature, all Italian laws (most of them in full-text) and some international legislation in this field. It also contains relevant electronic resources.
Keywords
Medical ethics; Nursing ethics; Clinical ethics; Ethics of genetics; Bioethics; Bibliographic databases
Alternative title
GEObs1 - Observatoire mondial d'éthique, Base de données 1 : Experts en éthique
GEObs1 - Observatorio mundial de ética, Base de datos 1: Quién es quién en el ámbito de la ética
Database code
GEOBS1: UNESCO
Resource types
Experts in ethics
Languages
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese
Links to full text
No
Number of records
1,499 (2011-11-14)
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
GEObs1 terms for
Producer
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Sector for Social and Human Sciences
Division of Ethics of Science and Technology
1, rue Miollis
75732 Paris
France
Phone: +33 (0)1 45 68 39 45
Email: geobs@unesco.org
http://www.unesco.org/shs/ethics
Notes
GEObs is a system of databases with worldwide coverage in bioethics and other areas of applied ethics in science and technology such as environmental ethics, science ethics and technology ethics.
The GEObs1 database is a compilation of information on ethics experts around the world. Experts are determined via a peer review process based on the quality and focus of recent publications in ethics of science and technology, involvement in ethics of science and technology research projects as well as the level and extent of ethics components in the individual’s educational and professional background.
Keywords
Professional competence; Bioethics; Medical ethics; Environmental ethics; Food ethics; Technology ethics; Ethics of science; Ethics education
Alternative title
GEObs2 - Observatoire mondial d'éthique, Base de données 2 : Institutions d'éthique
GEObs2 - Observatorio mundial de ética, Base de datos 2: Instituciones de ética
Database code
GEOBS2: UNESCO
Resource types
Languages
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese
Links to full text
No
Number of records
492 (2011-11-14)
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
GEObs2 terms for
Producer
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Sector for Social and Human Sciences
Division of Ethics of Science and Technology
1, rue Miollis
75732 Paris
France
Phone: +33 (0)1 45 68 39 45
Email: geobs@unesco.org
http://www.unesco.org/shs/ethics
Notes
GEObs is a system of databases with worldwide coverage in bioethics and other areas of applied ethics in science and technology such as environmental ethics, science ethics and technology ethics.
The GEObs2 database provides information on departments, institutes, centres, commissions, councils, committees, review boards, societies, associations and other relevant entities in the area of ethics of science and technology. Institutions within the database have been validated against their mission, activities, and publications as a confirmation of their active involvement in the field of ethics of science and technology.
Keywords
Organisations; Committees; Research institutes; Bioethics; Medical ethics; Nursing ethics; Animal ethics; Environmental ethics; Food ethics; Technology ethics; Ethics of science; Philosophical ethics; Religious ethics; Law
Alternative title
GEObs3 - Observatoire mondial d'éthique, Base de données 3 : Programmes d'enseignement de l'éthique
GEObs3 - Observatorio mundial de ética, Base de datos 3: Programas de enseñanza de la ética
Database code
GEOBS3: UNESCO
Resource types
Teaching programmes in ethics
Course languages
English, French, Russian, Turkish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Arabic (mainly)
Links to full text
No
Number of records
233 (2011-11-14)
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
GEObs3 terms for
Producer
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Sector for Social and Human Sciences
Division of Ethics of Science and Technology
1, rue Miollis
75732 Paris
France
Phone: +33 (0)1 45 68 39 45
Email: geobs@unesco.org
http://www.unesco.org/shs/ethics
Notes
GEObs is a system of databases with worldwide coverage in bioethics and other areas of applied ethics in science and technology such as environmental ethics, science ethics and technology ethics.
The GEObs2 database database contains descriptions of existing teaching programmes within the field of ethics of science and technology.
Keywords
Ethics education; Teaching methods; Bioethics; Medical ethics; Nursing ethics; Environmental ethics; Ethics of science; Philosophical ethics; Law
Database codes
Type: Web Resource
Resource types
Languages
English (mainly)
Links to full text
Yes
Number of records
170 (2011-11-14)
Update frequency
Irregularly
Controlled vocabulary used for indexing
Thesaurus Ethics in the Life Sciences
Producer/co-ordinator
German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE)
Bonner Talweg 57
53113 Bonn
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)228 3364 1930
Email: info@drze.de
http://www.drze.de
Notes
Resources on the Web providing information on