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Emerging Themes in Epidemiology BioMedCentral Editorial Open Access Seek, and ye shall find: Accessing the global epidemiological literature in different languages Isaac CH Fung Address: Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK Email: Isaac CH Fung - i.fung@imperial.ac.uk Published: 30 September 2008 Received: 4 March 2008 Accepted: 30 September 2008 Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:21 doi:10.1186/1742-7622-5-21 This article is available from: /content/5/1/21 ? 2008 Fung; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The thematic series Beyond English: Accessing the global epidemiological literature in Emerging Themes in Epidemiology highlights the wealth of epidemiological and public health literature in the major languages of the world, and the bibliographic databases through which they can be searched and accessed. This editorial suggests that all systematic reviews in epidemiology and public health should include literature published in the major languages of the world and that the use of regional and non-English bibliographic databases should become routine. Background fessionals are still unable or unwilling to read English in their daily routine [10]. In 1976, Eugene Garfield, the founder-president of the Institute for Scientific Information (now Thomson Scien- tific [1]) sparked controversy in France with his article Is French Science too Provincial? published in the leading French journal La Recherche [2]. By suggesting that French scientists must recognize that French is no longer the inter- national language, and the adoption of English as the world language of science should be encouraged (italic