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Databases for Articles

Databases for Public Health
CABDirect Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Also Known as: CAB Abstracts; CABI
Comprehensive international coverage of agriculture and veterinary sciences. Includes all items listed in Index Veterinarius, Animal Breeding Abstracts, Dairy Science Abstracts, Global Health, and 23 other abstracts journals covering all aspects of agriculture and related fields. Links to fulltext are available for some recent articles. NOTE: to search older literature 1900-1972, mark both CAB ABSTRACTS and CAB ABSTRACTS ARCHIVE before beginning to search. [more]

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Abstracts and citations covering environmental sciences are drawn from over 6,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. [more]

ERIC Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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ERIC provides access to the educational and related literature available in periodicals published worldwide and in the ERIC documents microfiche collection. Coverage is 1966 to date. [more]

Grey Literature Report - New York Academy of Medicine Library
http://www.nyam.org/library/pages/grey_literature_report
  

Also Known as: nyam grey literature
Locate health policy documents from various health policy stakeholders, such as the Kaiser Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the RAND Corporation, the Guttmacher Institute, the World Health Organization, and many more. Compiled by the library of the New York Academy of Medicine. Bimonthly updates available. [more]

HaPI - Health and Psychosocial Instruments Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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A directory of psychological tests, with information on validity, reliability and readability. Source information is included to help in obtaining copies of the test. [more]

MEDLINE (Ovid) Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Citations and abstracts to worldwide biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services. MEDLINE references articles from about 4000 journals published in 70 countries. Evidence-based search filters are available to assist in narrowing results to methodologically rigorous articles. To run a cited reference search on an article found in MEDLINE,copy and paste the PMID article Identifier here. [more]

Native Health Research Database
http://hsc.unm.edu/library/nhd/
  
Indexes health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. Can search by tribe, state, region/province in addition to MeSH subject searches. Older literature (back to 1652) can be found in the Native Health History Database. [more]

PsycINFO with PsycARTICLES Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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PsycINFO contains references to articles in more than 1,300 periodicals as well as technical reports, dissertations, and other materials in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences. With the inclusion of PsycARTICLES, over 44,000 full-text articles from more than 50 journals published by the American Psychological Association and participating publishers are provided. [more]

PubMed Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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The National Library of Medicine's free article search engine, containing article references from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, plus some publisher-supplied and out of scope citations from certain general science and chemistry journals, such as Science and Nature. MU users have enhanced MEDLINE search capabilities available to them in Ovid MEDLINE. MeSH subject indexing is not available for very new citations or for citations older than 1966. To run a cited reference search on an article found in PubMed, copy and paste the PMID article Identifier here. [more]

Scopus Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources, including open access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, abstracts, and patent records. [more]

Sociological Abstracts Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Search and display cited references for key journals published since 2001, and all journals since 2004. Each individual cited reference may also link to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference. Formerly known as Sociofile. [more]

TOXMAP
http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/main/index.jsp
  
A companion to the TRI Toxic Release Inventory. A geographic information system which provides maps showing the release of toxic chemicals over a geographic area. Search by chemical name, chemical name fragment, and/or location (such as city, state, or zip code). [more]

ToxSeek
http://toxseek.nlm.nih.gov/
  
Search a variety of government toxicology and environmental health resources simultaneously, including the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) , the Household Products Database , TOXLINE, and many more. From the National Library of Medicine.

World Health Organization Library Database (WHOLIS)
http://dosei.who.int/uhtbin/cgisirsi/Fri+Jan+18+20:36:28+MET+2008/0/49
  
Indexes all World Health Organization publications from 1948 to date, plus articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents since 1985. [more]

Journals

Journals for Public Health
Browse Journals on Public Health Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Core Public Health Journals
http://publichealth.yale.edu/phlibrary/phjournals/v2/
  
Core list of public health journals developed by the PH/HA section of the Medical Library Association.

Tips for finding journals and journal articles
  • Looking for a specific article or journal? Try the Journal/Article Finder
  • Need to search for articles by keyword or topic? Try Databases in the Databases tab

Other Resources Online

Other Resources Online for Public Health
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/atsdrhome.html
  
An agency of the Public Health Service in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its mission is to prevent exposure and adverse human health effects and diminished quality of life associated with exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites, unplanned releases, and other sources of pollution present in the environment. The homepage provides access points for ATSDR Datasets/Resources such as the HazDat Database, toxicology information, health studies and registries, health education and communication, the Hazardous Substances & Public Health newsletter, a Primer on Health Risk Communication Principles and Practices, congressional testimony and reports to Congress, and access to other related organizations and internet resources.

American Indian Health
http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/
  
Provides links to Web sites, documents, databases, and other resources of interest to Native Americans. From the National Library of Medicine.

Healthy People
http://www.healthypeople.gov/
  
Healthy People offers national health objectives and health indicators to measure health. New health objectives and measures are developed and evaluated every 10 years (e.g. Healthy People 2010, Healthy People 2020).

One Health Initiative
http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/
  
The One Health Initiative seeks to enhance collaboration among physicians, veterinarians, and public-health professionals. Includes news, publications, and outbreak reports.

Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
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Search and display images & multimedia files on public health topics. Most are in the public domain and may be freely used. From the Center for Disease Control.

ScanGrants
http://www.scangrants.com
  

Also Known as: scan grants
Search for grants for health services research and programs. Emphasizes private foundations, corporations, businesses, not-for profit organizations, and other nontraditional funding sources not found in grants.gov. A free service of Samaritan Health Services Center for Health Research and Quality.

State Health Facts Online
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/
  

Also Known as: statehealthfacts;statehealthfacts.org
Contains latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy. Includes information on health coverage, access, financing and state legislation. Site allows comparison of data for all states. From the Kaiser Family Foundation.

eBooks / Books

eBooks / Books for Public Health
Basic and Clinical Biostatistics Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Bioterrorism Sourcebook Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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Tips for finding books
  • Looking for a specific book? Try the Book Finder
    • The Book Finder first searches in the MERLIN catalog.
    • If no resources are found in MERLIN, the search moves to the MOBIUS catalog (a catalog of many Missouri libraries).
  • Need to search for a book by keyword or topic? Search the MERLIN catalog