Public Health

Provided by the US National Library of Medicine, PubMed is a freely available database containing more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life sciences journals, and online books.

The National Agricultural Library provides informational resources to land-grant colleges and universities, and other state-supported colleges and universities with academic programs relating to agriculture. Thus, the agricultural disciplines covered in AGRICOLA are quite extensive. Disciplines covered include food and human nutrition, agricultural engineering and technology, earth and environmental sciences and more.

BIOSIS Previews, including Biological Abstracts, contains references to journal articles, reports, literature reviews, conference papers, patents, and book synopses in the life sciences. Coverage includes 5500 journals and 1500 international meetings in agriculture, biology, biotechnology, environment, wildlife, ecology, agriculture, forestry and the health sciences.

The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature contains information published from 1982 to present on nursing and allied health fields such as dietetics, physical and occupational therapy, medical records, etc. Includes journal articles, books, book chapters, pamphlets, dissertations, audiovisuals and educational software, and virtually all publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing.

Global Health (available as part of the CABI Database through Web of Science) is a bibliographic database which focuses on research literature in public health and medical health sciences. Derived from over 7,000 journals, reports, books and conferences, Global Health contains over 2.5* million scientific records from 1973 to the present. Publications from over 100 countries in 50 languages are abstracted, and all relevant non-English-language papers are translated to give access to research not available through any other database. Proceedings, patents, thesis papers, electronic publications and relevant but difficult-to-find literature sources are also part of this database.

Environment Complete contains all of the content available in Environment Index, as well as full text for 400 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Environment Complete also provides full text for 80 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc. Further, the database offers full text for the conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education.

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management is a multidisciplinary database that provides coverage of literature relating to environmental sciences that dates back to 1967.

This database provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety and industrial hygiene.

This database combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource and provides fast access to the environmental information necessary to resolve day-to-day problems, ensure ongoing compliance and handle emergency situations more effectively.

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources in the medical, scientific, technical, social sciences, and arts and humanities fields. Scopus covers nearly 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers, and more half of its content comes from outside the U.S. The database provides powerful citation analysis tools for articles, authors, institutions, and journal metrics.

Access the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and more through the Web of Science Core Collection. Covers multidisciplinary subjects, including the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, and more than 12,000 journals. Also includes citations to conference proceedings.

This multidisciplinary database provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 5690 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

The Health and Environmental Research Online database provides an way to access the scientific literature behind EPA science assessments and contains studies that the EPA uses to develop environmental assessments for the public.

Applied Science & Technology contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 scientific and technical publications. Full text of articles is available from more than 220 periodicals, including page images that provide access to original illustrations, charts and photographs. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties—acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more.