Community Health Subject Guide

Articles

 

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To locate articles in Community Health, the following indexes, electronic journals, full text resources and databases should prove helpful.



Medline (FirstSearch) restricted

The major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Produced by the US National Library of Medicine. Coverage: 1965 - present. Updated daily.

  • RefWorks Info: Medline will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)

PubMed open access

Is the National Library of Medicine's interface for searching MEDLINE, the major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Free citations and abstracts, limited full text. Coverage: 1949 - present. Updated weekly.
Tips for using PubMed effectively are found in the NLM PubMed tutorial and UFL PubMed tutorial.

Medline Plus restricted

Health information from the National Library of Medicine presented accessibly for professionals and non-professionals.

Medscape

One time registration required. Free access to Medline, and access to full-text medical articles.

List of Journals Indexed for Medline

The list is a PDF file that includes an alphabetic list of journals by abbreviated title. Click through the Terms and Conditions page to get to it.

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) restricted

Indexes journals in nursing and related fields with full text for 560 of them. Some go back as far as 1937. Updated weekly.

PsycINFO restricted

Psychological Abstracts BF 1 .P65 (General Stacks)
Covers world-wide literature in psychology and related disciplines. Journal articles, technical reports, books, book chapters, and dissertations are included. Coverage: 1887-present. Updated weekly.
Use the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms for subject words: BF1 .P65x 2007 (Education Lib. and Waldo Ref.)

ERIC restricted

The Educational Resources Information Center indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields. Some documents are available full text, the rest are on microfiche in the Education Library. Covers 1966-present. Updated monthly.
This is the FirstSearch version, Tutorial

This database is also available from ProQuest and from the US government.

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