IBECS (Spanish Bibliographical Index in Health Sciences) is a bibliographical database that collects scientific journals covering multiple fields in health sciences. It is maintained by the Spanish National Health Sciences Library (BNCS), at the Carlos III Health Institute.

This corpus contains titles and abstracts from 168,198 records in English and Spanish. Users can find the metadata of each record written in Dublin Core format. The original XML file of the record provided by IBECS is provided as well.

Languages:
- English
- Spanish

This corpus contains the following files:

- IBECS-dublin_core-Sp-En.tar.bz2:
  This file contain the metadata files for each IBECS record in Dublin Core format.
  We can find the titles and abstracts in English and Spanish in these nodes:
  - '<dc:title xml:lang="es">': title in Spanish.
  - '<dc:title xml:lang="en">': title in English.
  - '<dc:description xml:lang="es">': abstract in Spanish.
  - '<dc:description xml:lang="en">': abstract in English.
  Other XML nodes include the following information:
  - '<identifier>': IBECS identifier.
  - '<setSpec>': ISSN code of the journal.
  - '<dc:creator>': authors of the article.
  - '<dc:language>': language the article was originally written in.
  - '<dc:source>': name of the journal the record was published in.
  - '<dc:identifier>': IBECS identifier.
  - '<dc:subject>': record's keywords in DeCS* code.
  - '<dc:type>': record type.
  - '<dc:date>': date of publication (year and month).

* DeCS (Health Sciences Descriptors) is a dynamic vocabulary with more than 33,000 descriptors organized in a tree structure, similar to MeSH.

- IBECS-original_xml.tar.bz2:
  This file contains the original metadata for each record found in the IBECS repository in XML format, encoded using the LILACS model.
  Here we list the nodes used to map their equivalences in Dublin Core standard metadata:
  - '<field name="ti_es">': title in Spanish.
  - '<field name="ti_en">': title in English.
  - '<field name="ab_es">': abstract in Spanish.
  - '<field name="ab_en">': abstract in English.
  - '<field name="id">': IBECS identifier.
  - '<field name="is">': ISSN code of the journal.
  - '<field name="au">': authors of the article.
  - '<field name="la">': language the article was originally written in.
  - '<field name="fo">': name of the journal the record was published in.
  - '<field name="mh">': record's keywords in DeCS* code.
  - '<field name="type">': record type.
  - '<field name="da">': date of publication (year and month).

* DeCS (Health Sciences Descriptors) is a dynamic vocabulary with more than 33,000 descriptors organized in a tree structure, similar to MeSH.

This corpus is available for free use.