MEDES y Dialnet, dos iniciativas de gran alcance para la literatura científica en habla hispana

Abstract

In this tenth article in the series “An Update in the Search for Scientific Information”, we present two databases of scientific literature in Spanish, both of them developed by foundations concerned with providing access to good-quality scientific information in Spanish. The first one is the MEDES database (MEDicina en ESpañol), an initiative by the Lilly Foundation with the primary objective to promote the visibility and use of biomedical publications in Spanish. The second one is Dialnet, considered one of the largest bibliographic websites of scientific literature in Spanish and which, with the access to bibliographic references for diverse topics, integrates different documentary services such as bibliographic alerts, a repository that allows access to the extent possible to full-text journal articles, book chapters, doctoral theses, proceedings of congresses, etc., as well as the generation of author profiles.