Maternity & Infant Care Database (MIDIRS)

Maternity & Infant Care is an essential resource for academics and healthcare professionals involved in the care of women and infants. Journals indexed in the database are international from the USA and Canada, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, UK, Africa and the Middle East. This unique database contains over 300,000 bibliographic references with abstracts to articles from over 400 international English language journals, books, guidelines and grey literature relating to the midwifery profession, pregnancy, labor, birth, postnatal care and care of the infant up to six weeks, infant feeding, and the transition to parenthood. Database coverage is from the mid-1980s and approximately 1000 records are added to the database per month. Many of the records are assigned to one or more of over 900 standard searches on key topics in order to provide fast retrieval, using either a code or a browsable index of topics. URLs are available for linking to electronic documents in addition to the journal articles full texts linking facilities of the Ovid Technologies platform.