LibGuides: EAB 700: Research Methods : Articles

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Use this to access the recommended databases for your EAB 700 assignments. If you want to view other journals take a look at this list of Public Health journals listed below.

Public Health & Related Databases

This list of resources contains links to recommended databases and search engines to complete your assignments.

CINAHL
Good for: Researching nursing and allied health topics.
Contains: Index of nursing and allied health literature.
Dates covered: 1982-present.
Dissertations and Theses
Good for: Dissertations and theses.
Contains: Citations, abstracts, and full text of dissertations and theses.
Dates covered: Citations from 1861, abstracts from 1980 for dissertations and 1988 for theses, full text from 1996 for UNLV items and 1997 for most others.
ERIC
1966-
Scholarly and popular journal articles, book chapters, and reports from the field of education.
Update frequency: monthly
Use ERIC to search abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, and reports from the field of education. Subject indexing allows you to zero in on all the articles relevant to your topic. ERIC digests offer overviews of significant scholarship on a topic.
Google Scholar
Searches scholarly journal articles. Set preferences to UNLV for full text access!
Google Scholar searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and reports from many academic and technical fields. It is freely available to anyone searching the Internet; however, many of the links that lead to full text resources are not. On your first visit, go to Google Scholar Preferences and use the Library Links box to set UNLV as your source for no-fee access to many full text articles. For answers to questions about Google Scholar, check out the FAQ.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, this comprehensive bibliographic database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.
It also provides information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from industrial organizational behavior and education. HaPI includes citations to freestanding instruments as well as instruments that have only appeared in journal or technical reports, published and unpublished.
Medline via OCLC FirstSearch
1965-
Index of medical literature, including over 15,800,000 records from medical, dental, and nursing journals.
Medline via OVID
Over 23 million article citations and author abstracts from more than 5,600 biomedicine and life sciences journals.
Medline via Web of Science
1950-
Over 15 million records from medical and life sciences journals.
Searching Medline on the Web of Knowledge platform allows you to also search several other databases at the same time.
PubMed
PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine that provides free access to MEDLINE, the NLM database of indexed citations and abstracts to medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and preclinical sciences journal articles. It also includes additional selected life sciences journals not found in MEDLINE.

Public Health Journals

The following is a list of core public health journals. You can search these journals from the library website using the A-Z list of journal titles.

The American Journal of Public Health
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Annual Review of Public Health
BMC Public Health
BMJ
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Environmental Health Perspectives
Epidemiology
Health Affairs: the Policy Journal of the Health Sphere
Health Care Financing Review
Health Services Research
Health Policy and Planning
International Journal of Epidemiology
JAMA
Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
Journal of Health Policy
Lancet
Medical Care
Milbank Quarterly
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
NEJM
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
Public Health Reports
Social Science and Medicine

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