Journals & Databases
Literature Review Databases for Community Health Education
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowCovers over 4,600 nursing and allied health journals, with full-text articles from more than 350 active, non-open access journals. Coverage includes nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and other allied health disciplines. Also covers health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals and book chapters. Contains continuing education modules, research instruments records, evidence-based care sheets, and quick lessons as well.
- MEDLINE with Full Text (U.S. National Library of Medicine) @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE is the largest component of PubMed from the National Library of Medicine, covering more than 5,200 scholarly biomedical and life sciences journals published around the world. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). PubMed "Ahead of Print" citations that precede the article's final publication in a MEDLINE indexed journal are also included in this version.
- Education Databases via EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowThis cluster of EBSCOhost databases allows you to search 5 education databases at one time:
Education Source | Educational Administration Abstracts | ERIC | Professional Development Collection | Teacher Reference Center.
Please Note: This cluster includes only EBSCOhost databases. Please visit the Education page for links to other essential education resources. By searching multiple databases at one time, unique features of individual databases are disabled. - APA PsycInfo (American Psychological Association) @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowCovers 2,400 journals as well as book chapters and dissertations in psychology and from related behavioral and social sciences including: artificial intelligence, business, education, law, linguistics, medicine, neuroscience, pharmacology, political science, social work, sociology, sports
More Health Databases
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO) @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowIncludes 140 active journals, 120 peer-reviewed active journals, and 930 indexed and abstracted journals covering nursing and allied health topics including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.
- Alt HealthWatch (EBSCO) @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowIncludes about 50 active journals and magazines focused on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness, including the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies.
- Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO) @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowHealth and wellness information from: 480+ journals and magazines, 2,600+ evidence-based reports (Great Neck Health), nearly 500 images and diagrams (Nucleus Medical), 470+ encyclopedias and other reference sources, 240+ animations (Blausen Medical), government pamphlets (CDC, FDA, NIH and more), ASHP Patient Medication Information, Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary
- ClinicalKey (Elsevier) This link opens in a new windowA point-of-care resource for health care professionals designed to provide clinicians with answers quickly. Includes a wide range of content types to satisfy clinical information needs: books (1,000+), journals (500+), videos (13,000+), practice guidelines (2,000+), images, patient education handouts, and drug monographs. Images can be exported directly to PowerPoint slides.
Note: User must register and login to download PDFs
General Databases
- Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate) @ Web of Science This link opens in a new windowFully covers over 22,000 scholarly journals across 254 academic disciplines. Comprised of Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), and more. Specializes in cited reference searching for comprehensive identification of later works that have cited an article published in one of the covered journals. Coverage: 1900-present.
- Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive database containing full-text academic journals, magazines and periodicals plus reports, books and videos covering virtually every discipline. Includes thousands of English-language and native-language full-text journals from Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America.
- ScienceDirect (Elsevier) This link opens in a new windowIncludes 2,500 journals and 11,000 books published by Elsevier in the areas of health & life Sciences, physical sciences, and social & behavioral Sciences. Thanks to funding by academic initiatives, we now have the "complete" collection, which includes pre-1995 Journal Content with deep coverage available back to Volume 1, Issue 1 and practically all Elsevier online books, including Major Reference Works, Books Series, Handbooks, eBooks Front lists and Back lists back to 1995.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAn archive of more than 4,600 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences from nearly 1,200 publishers. Thanks to both the Murphy Library Endowment Fund and UWL Student Differential Tuition for providing access to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV collection.
- Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowThis database indexes and provides selected full text for thousands of scholarly journals and other authoritative sources across many academic disciplines. Subjects covered include the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, and literature.
Example Journal Subscriptions from UWL
BrowZine can be a great place for getting to know journals within a discipline. Other than Public Health and the subjects listed within, you might be interested in the Health and Social Welfare Policy category.
Other categories in BrowZine:
A few popular journals in BrowZine: