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This list of resources contains journal articles and other research materials about public health topics:
Good for: Conducting academic research on all subjects.
Contains: Journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
Good for: Researching agricultural and environmental science.
Contains: Index to literature from journals, conference proceedings, reports, books, and government publications.
Dates covered: 1967-present.
Good for: Researching complementary, integrative health and alternative medicine.
Contains: Articles.
Alt Health Watch offers abstracts or full text from 50 full-text journals and magazines. Covers such areas of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers the latest information about the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies.
Good for: Researching psychological literature.
Contains: Journal articles, books, and dissertations.
Dates covered: 1800-present.
Good for: Researching medicine and biology.
Contains: Peer-reviewed journals.
Good for: Researching nursing and allied health topics.
Contains: Index of nursing and allied health literature.
Dates covered: 1982-present.
Good for: Finding evidence-based medicine reviews and information.
Contains: Collection of evidence-based medicine databases.
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.
Good for: Finding UNLV dissertations and theses.
Contains: Citations, abstracts, and full text of UNLV dissertations and theses.
Dates covered: Full text for most items begins in 1996.
Good for: Researching medicine, biomedical sciences, and allied health subjects.
Contains: Index of scholarly articles.
Embase content is indexed using a specialized thesaurus, Emtree, that includes biomedical, chemical, and drug terms. There is a special focus on drugs and devices.
Good for: Researching health-related issues.
Contains: Information on diseases, disorders, and alternative medical practices.
Good for: Students, researchers, and health care professionals.
Contains: Up-to-date information on health care topics.
Good for: Researching the impact of humans on the environment.
Contains: Coverage from government, general, and scholarly publications.
It contains over 300,000 records and over 200 cited references from the agriculture, education, law, health and technology fields.
Good for: Defining health and medical terms.
Contains: Health and medical dictionaries.
Includes Collins Dictionary of Medicine, Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Mosby's Dental Dictionary, Mosby's Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary, Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary, Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary and more.
Good for: Finding health and psychosocial assessment tools.
Contains: Abstracts from leading journals.
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.
Good for: Researching consumer health information.
Contains: Articles.
Dates covered: 1985-present.
Good for: Accessing evidence-based information for healthcare professionals.
Contains: Literature reviews, recommended practices and procedures, information guidelines, systematic reviews, protocols, consumer information sheets, and technical reports.
Good for: Analyzing the influence of scholarly periodicals.
Contains: Citation data (including impact factors) drawn from scholarly and technical journals worldwide
JCR gives information year-by-year on the impact factors of journals as well as the half-life (for how many years an article is cited after publication) of journals.
Good for: Accessing Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins (LWW) nursing journals.
Contains: Nursing journals.
Journals@Ovid consists of two sets of nursing titles. One set has about 40 titles on nursing and health professions with content from 1997 to present. The Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins Legacy Archive Collection has 240 nursing titles with coverage ending after 1999.
Good for: Undergraduate and medical education.
Contains: Authoritative texts, cases, clinical skills, multimedia resources, and teaching and learning tools.
Good for: Accessing all LWW journals on OvidSP.
Contains: All LWW journals, including core journals and specialized resources.
Good for: Finding medical literature.
Contains: Index of medical literature.
Dates covered: 1965-present.
Good for: Finding articles on biomedicine and life sciences.
Contains: Article citations and abstracts.
Good for: Finding medical and life sciences articles.
Contains: Citations to journal articles.
Dates covered: 1950-present.
Searching Medline on the Web of Knowledge platform allows you to also search several other databases at the same time.
Good for: Finding reviews of English-language psychological tests.
Contains: Reviews of tests.
Dates covered: 1938-present.
Good for: Finding information about chemicals and their properties.
Contains: Information on chemicals, biologicals, and drugs.
Search by keyword, chemical formula, physical property and chemical structure. The Merck Index Online contains information from over 11,500 monographs and reference data.
Good for: Finding information on PTSD and other mental health consequences of trauma.
Contains: Citations and abstract to scholarly literature.
Good for: Designing research projects, planning studies, learning methodological approaches, gathering data, and understanding findings.
Contains: Tools and content for research methods.
A collection of real social research case studies is incorporated to help understand abstract methodological concepts in practice. Datasets from both international and national sources accompanied by how-to guides covering numerous quantitative and qualitative research methods are included. SRM contains more than 600 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, journal articles, videos, and handbooks as well as the entire Little Green Book (quantitative) and Little Blue Book (qualitative) series. A taxonomy of over 1400 methods terms is featured along with a Methods Map which visualizes relationships among methods terms, concepts, people, and literature. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.
Good for: Accessing bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references in scholarly science and technical journals.
Contains: Bibliographic information, abstracts, and cited references.
Good for: Researching social science, medicine, science, and technology.
Contains: Journals.
Good for: Researching peer-reviewed scientific, medical, technical, and social science literature.
Contains: Index to literature.
Dates covered: 1960-present.
Scopus also features a citation index, allowing you to find the papers that cite a specific piece of research.
Good for: Researching a wide range of topics in science, social science, arts, and humanities.
Contains: Citations to scholarly journal articles and conference papers.
Dates covered: 1900-present.
Web of Science is a platform for Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Index, Journal Citation Reports, Biological Abstracts, MEDLINE, and Inspec.
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The following is a list of core public health journals: