The Acubriefs database is made up of citations from several
sources (More than 24,000 primarily English citations as of February
2007). In addition to standard database sources such as Medline,
a number of pertinent non-indexed journals are subscribed to and
indexed in Acubriefs's database. Numerous articles and text books
have also had their bibligraphies reviewed in order to help complete
Acubrief's database.
We intend the Acubriefs database to be not only the most complete
source of acupuncture citations in the English language but also
to play a vital role in helping both the researcher and the clinician
find and evaluate pertinent citations. This database work was
initiated well before the 1997
NIH Consensus Conference on Acupuncture and was utilized as
this conference's primary database. MARF board members Russell
Erickson, MD and James K. Rotchford MD, MPH were major contributors
to the NIH Consensus Conference database. Dr. Erickson enriched
the database significantly by creating thousands of annotated
abstracts. The work initiated by Dr. Erikson was enhanced and
furthered by the Acubriefs Newsletter project.
The online search engine is quite robust but if more detailed
or specialized searches are required please look into our Librarian
Services.
Journals subscribed to
and regularly reviewed: (For detailed information
on journals and indexed issues go to Full
Text Retrieval).
Databases and online sources
reviewed:
Chinese Journals hand-searched with English
Abstracts: new as of April 2003: (For detailed information
on these journals go to Full
Text Retrieval).
- World Journal of Acupuncture-Moxibustion: Chinese Name:
SHI JIE ZHEN JIU ZA ZHI
- Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion: Chinese Name:
ZHONG GUO ZHEN JIU
- Acupuncture Research: Chinese Name: ZHEN CI YAN JIU
- Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion: Chinese
Name: SHANG HAI ZHEN JIU ZA ZHI
- Chinese Journal of Basic Medicine in Traditional Chinese
Medicine: Chinese Name: ZHONG GUO ZHONG YI JI CHU YI XUE ZA
ZHI
- New Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Chinese
Name: XIN ZHONG YI
- Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Chinese Name:
ZHONG YI ZA ZHI
- Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine:
Chinese Name: ZHONG GUO ZHONG XI YI JIE HE ZA ZHI
Textbooks whose references
were reviewed for input:
- 1. Helms JM. Acupuncture energetics: a clinical approach for
physicians. Berkeley, CA: Medical Acupuncture Publishers: 1995.
- 2. Filshie J., White A. Medical Acupuncture. A Western Scientific
Approach. Churchill Livingstone, 1998
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