LibGuides: Writing 720K 16S Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Global Health Key Databases

Article Databases for Global Health

PubMed This link opens in a new window
Premier search engine for biomedical literature. Also covers non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, and more. Excellent source for global health topics.

Scopus This link opens in a new window
A large interdisciplinary abstract and citation database. Searches MEDLINE (basis of Pubmed) and EMBASE, as well as key journals in sciences and social sciences. Similar to Web of Science, but more comprehensive international journal coverage.

Web of Science
Provides access to interdisciplinary research articles. Choose 'ALL DATABASES' to include search of MEDLINE. Allows you to trace the scholarship of an article using cited reference searching.
Google Scholar
A search engine for scholarly materials. Good for initial searching and grey literature. Lacks advanced features and quality control. Add DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES under SETTINGS > LIBRARY LINKS to get links to the full text in your GS results.

Global Health Database
Provides access to interdisciplinary research articles in global health. Includes unique materials (grey lit) not included in Pubmed, Web of Science, or Scopus.

AGRICOLA: Online Public Access Catalog This link opens in a new window
Search for article abstracts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. This is an open access database.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Search nursing and allied health literature dating back to the 1980s
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Search for systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy
Embase This link opens in a new window
Search abstracts from EMBASE (1974-present) and Medline (1966-present)
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Searches for journal articles and books in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, and energy
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
Search articles, government documents, and grey literature related to international politics and public policy
Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles in political science and public policy
PsycInfo (APA) This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology
Sociology Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Search for articles in the field of sociology

African Index Medicus
A joint initiative between the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) to store regionally-generated biomedical information.
Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Indexes the health and biomedical journals published in the Region since 1984.

LILACS This link opens in a new window
Search for Latin American and Caribbean literature in the health sciences from 1982 to the present.
SciELO Complete This link opens in a new window
Search for articles published in open access journals covering research in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa. This is an open access database.

Global Health Now Global Health News from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Global Health Policy Blog Research and policy analysis news.
Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report Real-time reporting of news and events related to global health and policy worldwide.
NPR Global Health Audio and news stories about Global Health.
Lancet Global Health Collection Articles, comments, seminars and Reviews focusing on health in low-income and middle-income countries.
Nature News
Science News

Top Cited Journals in Global Health

Find the full text of a specific article by using the library's Articles search. Paste in the article title.
Find specific journals by title (ex. Social Science & Medicine) using the Online Journal Titles page.
Find specific research databases (ex. Pubmed) using the Research Databases page.

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