LibGuides: School of Public Health: Databases

Primary Public Health Databases

Agricola
Covers all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines.
Description:
- Contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library
- Coverage dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.1 million citations
- Comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture
Agricola allows you to:
- directly export search results to EndNote
- save searches in a personalized folder
- create email alerts for a specific topic
Producer
National Agricultural Library, Ebsco
CINAHL Complete
Definitive source for nursing and allied health literature with broad coverage of population health, preventive medicine, and related administrative and policy topics.
Description:
- Provides full text for more than 750 journals
- Definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature
CINAHL Plus allows you to:
- directly export search results to EndNote
- save searches in a personalized folder
- create email alerts for a specific topic
Producer
Ebsco
Global Health
Covers all aspects of public health at the international and community level including critical information on environmental and occupational health and broader biomedical life sciences.
Description:
- Public health database that provides information on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene
- Contains more than 1.2 million records dating back to 1973
Global Health allows you to:
- directly export search results to EndNote
- save searches in a personalized folder
- create email alerts for a specific topic
Producer
Ebsco
GreenFILE
Environmental health and sustainability.
Description:
- Collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling
- Abstracts for more than 384,000 records
- Full text for more than 4,700 records
GreenFile allows you to:
- directly export search results to EndNote
- save searches in a personalized folder
- create email alerts for a specific topic
Producer
Ebsco
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Consumer (patient) health literature.
Description:
- Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health
- Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines
- Coverage from 1985-present
Health Source: Consumer Edition allows you to:
- directly export search results to EndNote
- save searches in a personalized folder
- create email alerts for a specific topic
Producer
Ebsco
Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition
Full-text nursing journals including allied health topics
Description:
- Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines
- Features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names
- Coverage from 1975-present
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition allows you to:
- directly export search results to EndNote
- save searches in a personalized folder
- create email alerts for a specific topic
Producer
Ebsco
Nutrition Abstracts
Covers a wide array of topics including public health nutrition, environmental health, food safety and hygiene, and non-communicable.
Description:
- Public health database that provides information on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene
- Contains more than 1.2 million records dating back to 1973
Global Health allows you to:
- directly export search results to EndNote
- save searches in a personalized folder
- create email alerts for a specific topic
Producer
Ebsco
Public Health and Epidemiology (Oxford Scholarship Online book collection)
Key e-book collection.

A collection of over 100 electronic books focusing on various aspects of Public Health and Epidemiology.
PubMed@LLU
Premier database for biomedical literature, customized for local access.
Description:
- Contains references and abstracts from over 4,600 biomedical and health science journals from 1966 to the present
- Link directly to LLU-licensed journals or find print: PubMed Find Article Button
- Click to access PubMed tutorials
Producer:
National Library of Medicine
SocIndex with Full Text
Covers behavioral and social sciences relevant to healthcare administration.
Description:
- Features more than 1,986,000 records with subject headings from a 19,600 term sociological thesaurus
- Contains full text for 708 journals dating back to 1908
- Includes full text for more than 780 books and monographs, and full text for 9,333 conference papers
SocIndex with Full Text allows you to:
- directly export search results to EndNote
- save searches in a personalized folder
- create email alerts for a specific topic
Producer
Ebsco

Pub Med

PubMed Includes 14 million citations for biomedical articles dating back to the 1950s.
Use the PubMed@LLU link on the Library home page to access PubMed. To see if LLU has a specific article, go to the “abstract” display and click on the link to our Journal Portal to see if the article is available from LLU:

The Ebscohost databases

Academic Search Premier: A multidisciplinary database for social sciences, humanities, education, general science and multi-cultural journals. Provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals
Global Health: Covers all aspects of public health at the international and community level; also includes Nutrition Abstracts
Consider EBSCOhost specialty databases for a specific angle to a topic:

HAPI : Health and Psychosocial Instruments: Provides records for finding questionnaires, checklists, interview forms, scenarios/vignettes, index measures, projective techniques, rating scales, and tests
PsycInfo, PsycEXTRA, , PsycArticles, PsycBooks (psychological aspects, counseling topics)
Agricola, GreenFILE, or GeoRef (for public health topics relating to food, agriculture, ecology, environment)
Ageline : Social gerontology and aging-related articles, books, and reports
ATLA Religion Database (for religious or spiritual aspects to a topic)
CINAHL (CINAHL has a Nursing & Allied Health focus, but is also excellent for public health topics because it is strong in areas such as health promotion & education, community health topics, nutrition, etc. )
SocIndex (for sociological or social work-related aspects of public health)

Other Useful databases

Web of Science: Search Science Citation Index & Social Science Citation Index from 1956-Present; Cited Reference Searching to find articles that cite a previously published work

eHRAF: (Collection of Ethnography): Primary source materials on cultures of societies worldwide.

Population Index: Demography, population size and growth, projections and predictions

GoogleScholar: Set your Scholar Preferences to "Find FullText @ LLU&MC"