Research Guides: HLSA 3340:Public Health & Epidemiology: Home

Utilize this guide to search databases listed below for articles and other information for your topic and course assignments. If you have questions please use the chat box.

MedLine with Full Text

Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences; full-text from 1990.

CINAHL Complete

The most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL

Journals @ OVID Nursing Collection (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins)

Full-text access to a group of approximately 70 highly respected medical and nursing journals.

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making (assessment, reviews, controlled trials register, etc.).

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

Indexes journals in nursing and allied health. Most titles full text, beginning 1986.

PubMed Central

PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)

ABI/INFORM Collection

Full-text titles covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information.

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Healthcare Administration Database (ProQuest)

This high-demand healthcare management content provides the most reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics.

https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/pq_health_med_comp/

Health & Medical Collection ( ProQuest)

ProQuest Health and Medical Complete offers users vital clinical, biomedical, and health journals, including many indexed in MEDLINE.

Find Books

Online Catalog (GIL-Find)
Check the online catalog for books and more at Middle Georgia State.
Reserves
Check in GIL-Find for items (print or electronic) that your professor has put on reserve.
Ask for books and other print materials at the desk in the Library.
Log in to online reserves with the password your professor provides you.

Medical Databases

CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete is the most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals.
The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
Films on Demand Nursing Video Collection
The most comprehensive range of any nursing streaming video service available.
Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition
Over 500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on nursing, allied health fields, and many medical disciplines.
Journals @ Ovid Nursing Collection (Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins)
Journals @ Ovid Nursing Collection (Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins) provides full-text access to a select group of highly respected medical and nursing journals.
MEDLINE with Full Text (at EBSCOhost)
MEDLINE with Full Text combines the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database with links to the complete text of articles from leading medical journals.
Nursing & Allied Health Database (ProQuest)
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable health care information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more.
R2 Digital Library (Electronic Nursing Books)
The R2 Digital Library is a web based database that offers fully integrated and searchable medical, nursing and allied health source book content from key health science publishers.

General Databases

GALILEO
Over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. Over 10,000 journal titles are provided in full-text.
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals.
JSTOR
Full text articles from the back issues of selected core journals.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central brings together 30 highly used ProQuest databases to create the largest single academic research resource.
Films on Demand
Films on Demand consists of 15,500 video titles (77,000 segments) in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Health, and Science.

Useful Websites

Open Academic Databases & Web Tools

Carrot2
Carrot2 organizes your search results into topics.
Dimensions
Dimensions covers millions of research publications connected by more than 1.7 billion citations, supporting grants, datasets, clinical trials, patents and policy documents.
Prospero
PROSPERO is an international database of prospectively registered systematic reviews in health and social care, welfare, public health, education, crime, justice, and international development, where there is a health related outcome.
SMMRY
SMMRY (pronounced suh·muh·ree) was created to summarize text. SMMRY's mission is to provide an efficient manner of understanding text, which is done primarily by reducing the text to only the most important sentences.
Trip: Medical Database
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.
PeDro Physiotherapy Evidence Database
PEDro is a free database of over 57,000 trials, reviews and guidelines evaluating physiotherapy interventions.

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HLSA 3340:Public Health & Epidemiology