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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 This link opens in a new window
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1982-
The main index for nursing literature and allied health.
Update frequency: weekly
The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature is an index to literature in nursing and allied health. This database provides indexing, abstracting, and full text for over 1,600 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 700,000 records.
Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
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citations 1861-; abstracts 1980-; full text 1997-
Full text of most dissertations produced after 1997; citations and abstracts for others.
Update frequency: Updated quarterly
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses contains over 1.5 million entries, providing citations to North American and European dissertations from 1861 forward, with abstracts from 1980 forward. It also provides citations and abstracts for theses from 1988 forward. Full text of UNLV theses and dissertations available from 1996 to the present. Full text from all other institutions available from 1997 to the present.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
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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 This link opens in a new window
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) This link opens in a new window
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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 This link opens in a new window
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1965-
Index of medical literature, including over 15,800,000 records from medical, dental, and nursing journals.
Medline via OVID This link opens in a new window
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Over 23 million article citations and author abstracts from more than 5,600 biomedicine and life sciences journals.
Medline via Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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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 This link opens in a new window
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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