Sources
Where PetCaseFinder's veterinary cases come from.
Every case page on PetCaseFinder traces back to a real, peer-reviewed paper indexed in one of the public scientific databases below. We do not write original research, we do not publish anonymous content, and we do not generate fictional cases. Each page surfaces the original authors and a working link to the source database alongside the plain-English translation.
We currently index 52,501 peer-reviewed papers across 5 of these databases, and add new ones every week.
PubMed
46,865 indexedOperated by U.S. National Library of Medicine (NIH)
PubMed is the largest biomedical literature database in the world, covering more than 35 million citations including the entire MEDLINE corpus of veterinary journals. It is the canonical index of peer-reviewed health and life sciences research and the primary source PetCaseFinder draws from.
Europe PMC
800 indexedOperated by EMBL-EBI in partnership with a consortium of European research funders
Europe PMC mirrors and extends PubMed Central with additional open-access full-text content. It is especially valuable for veterinary papers from European journals that arrive faster on Europe PMC than on the U.S. mirrors.
Crossref
1,806 indexedOperated by The Crossref membership organisation
Crossref is the official DOI registration agency for scholarly publishers. PetCaseFinder uses Crossref to fill metadata gaps (DOIs, journal names, author lists) for papers that come in incomplete from upstream sources.
Semantic Scholar
975 indexedOperated by Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Semantic Scholar is an academic search engine built on top of a freely available citation graph. We use it to surface veterinary papers that might be missed by purely keyword-based queries on PubMed, including older case reports and conference proceedings.
DOAJ
2,096 indexedOperated by Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), an independent NGO
DOAJ indexes peer-reviewed open-access journals across every academic discipline, including a substantial number of veterinary journals from outside the major Anglophone publishers. PetCaseFinder uses it to broaden geographic coverage of the case library.
What our relationship with these sources is — and is not
PetCaseFinder is an independent index. We are not affiliated with PubMed, Europe PMC, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, or DOAJ. We use their public APIs and metadata in compliance with each source's terms of use, and we credit the original publication on every case page. The plain-English translation layer that PetCaseFinder adds is our editorial work and does not represent the views of any source database or original author.