LibGuides: Health Care Administration and Policy : Finding Articles & Databases

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This page contains a list of Healthcare Administration journals, as well as a list of databases and links to recent publications from faculty in the Healthcare Administration program. If you're looking for a databases don't forget about the Recommended Resources box on the Getting Started page.

Healthcare Administration & Related Databases

This list of resources contains journal articles and other research materials about public health topics. For more Public Health & related databases, see Recommended Resources.

ABI/INFORM Collection
Good for: Analyzing business trends and company information.
Contains: Articles and reports on advertising, marketing, economics, and more.
Dates covered: 1923-present.
Business Source Elite
Good for: Researching business, management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.
Contains: Scholarly journals, business periodicals, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.
CINAHL
Good for: Researching nursing and allied health topics.
Contains: Index of nursing and allied health literature.
Dates covered: 1982-present.
Cochrane Library
Good for: Finding evidence-based medicine reviews and information.
Contains: Collection of evidence-based medicine databases.
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.
Dissertations and Theses: UNLV
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.
Embase
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.
Health and medical dictionaries in Credo Reference
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.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
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.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Good for: Researching consumer health information.
Contains: Articles.
Dates covered: 1985-present.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Good for: Researching nursing and allied health topics.
Contains: Index of journals.
Dates covered: 1985-present.
Journal Citation 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.
Journals@Ovid
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.
LWW Health Library Collections
Good for: Undergraduate and medical education.
Contains: Authoritative texts, cases, clinical skills, multimedia resources, and teaching and learning tools.
LWW Total Access Collection
Good for: Accessing all LWW journals on OvidSP.
Contains: All LWW journals, including core journals and specialized resources.
Medline via OCLC FirstSearch
Good for: Finding medical literature.
Contains: Index of medical literature.
Dates covered: 1965-present.
Medline via OVID
Good for: Finding articles on biomedicine and life sciences.
Contains: Article citations and abstracts.
Medline via Web of Science
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.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Good for: Finding reviews of English-language psychological tests.
Contains: Reviews of tests.
Dates covered: 1938-present.
Merck Index
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.
PTSDpubs
Good for: Finding information on PTSD and other mental health consequences of trauma.
Contains: Citations and abstract to scholarly literature.
APA PsycINFO 1887-Current
Good for: Researching psychological literature.
Contains: Journal articles, books, and dissertations.
Dates covered: 1800-present.
SAGE Research Methods
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.
Science Citation Index Expanded
Good for: Accessing bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references in scholarly science and technical journals.
Contains: Bibliographic information, abstracts, and cited references.
ScienceDirect Journals
Good for: Researching social science, medicine, science, and technology.
Contains: Journals.
Scopus
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.
Web of Science
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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