Research Guides: PHLH 201: Dimensions of Public Health: Getting Started

Databases

Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Publication Dates: 1995-Present
Searches articles in general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
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Publication Dates: 1966-Present
Searches biomedical literature, life sciences, health, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. Links to other NCBI molecular biology resources.
SciELO Citation Index This link opens in a new window
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Publication Dates: 1997-Present
Contains open access journals from Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa, focusing on science, medical research, and social sciences.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Publication Dates: 1900-Present
Searches the scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Includes a cited reference search to find articles that have cited a work.

World Health Organization
WHO works worldwide to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable. Their goal is to ensure that a billion more people have universal health coverage, to protect a billion more people from health emergencies, and provide a further billion people with better health and well-being. On their website, find information about global health issues, specific epidemic diseases, and the intersections between disease and society.

Environment Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Publication Dates: 1975-Present
Provides brief summaries of scientific and scholarly material published worldwide, encompassing all aspects of the impact of people and technology on the environment.
PAIS International This link opens in a new window
Publication Dates: 1915-Present
Includes brief information about articles, books, websites, and government documents that cover global public policy, social issues, and the social sciences.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
Publication Dates: 1951-Present
Includes references to scholarly articles, books, book chapters, and reviews for the social sciences. Good international coverage.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Searches across a wide variety of types of sources including scholarly journals, magazines, historical and current newspapers, dissertations, and more. Coverage is multidisciplinary. Great place to start a research project.
PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
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Publication Dates: 1840-Present
Searches scholarly literature in psychology, the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Also includes cited references searching.

Nexis Uni - News This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full-text articles from U.S. national and regional news sources as well as English-language news sources from around the world.
ProQuest Current Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Searches US and international news. Includes US ethnic, minority, and native presses.
ProQuest International Newsstand This link opens in a new window
Publication Dates: late 1990s-Present
Searches across the full text of international newspapers and newswires. Includes English and non-English titles. Does not include images and graphics.
Oral History Online This link opens in a new window
Includes oral history transcripts, audio, and video of free and subscription-based oral history projects. Can search by characteristics of the speaker and events mentioned.

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