WHO Library and Literature Services (HLT) provides access to WHOLIS database, partially abstracted, of:
- WHO headquarters and regional office publications
- periodical articles
- technical and policy documents
- joint publications or WHO with other publishers and international organisations
- publications from Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), International Agency for research on Cancer (IARC), Council for International Organisations on Medical Sciences (CIOMS)
WHOLIS can be searched by word. Bi-monthly issues of WHODOC (their bulletin of new publications) can be downloaded is ascii or CDS-ISIS formats (it cannot be searched online). WHOLIS is also available as part of the LILACS CDRom produced by Bireme (see separate entry)