Resources from our holdings and elsewhere for Public Health.
Public Health Resources
Top Databases for Public Health
PubMed The public interface for the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database, containing millions of abstracts and links to full-text articles in the health sciences. PubMed is considered the go-to resource for the biosciences. Searching can be done with either free text or the controlled vocabulary of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
PubMed offers several tutorials and help guides ranging from 2 minute videos to hours-long deep dives at https://learn.nlm.nih.gov/documentation/training-packets/T0042010P/
Since not all of the articles in PubMed are available through Arcadia's holdings, be sure to look at our Can't Find Full-text? guide to help find what you need.
Biomedical Reference Collection* Compare to PubMed. Contains over 4,000 full-text journals covering a variety of disciplines ranging from and the health sciences to the health care system.
The Cochrane Library "Cochrane" is a well-regarded, regularly updated collection of review abstracts on many medical topics. Their resources include their database of Systematic Reviews, Clinical Trials, and Clinical Answers.
Next Databases for Public Health
ScienceDirect* Scholarly articles from scientific, technical, and medical journals. A product of the major academic publisher Elsevier.
Journals@Ovid* Scholarly articles from scientific, technical, and medical journals.
Academic Search Ultimate* A large, academically multidisciplinary article database that is another very good place to do Public Health scholarly literature searching.
Journals for Public Health
These are selected Public Health journal titles. Find others by keyword searching on public health topics in a database like one listed above.
American Journal of Public Health* (via EBSCOHost). The journal of the American Public Health Association.
American Journal of Health Promotion* (via EBSCOHost & SAGE).
Biostatistics* (via EBSCOHost - 1 year embargo on articles).
The Nation's Health The newspaper of the American Public Health Association. The current month of this publication is open access.
Open Access PH journals curated by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
Other Journals* Based on a search for the keywords "public health" in the library's Find a Journal* search engine.
Additional resources
(NOTE: this section is currently under development)
Retraction Watch A website that reports on and tracks retractions of scholarly articles.
Free health promotion ebooks from the Art & Science of Health Promotion Institute.
Public Health Resources from the US Health Resources & Services Administration.
Resources & Tools from the Public Health Foundation.
10 Essential Public Health Services from the CDC's Public Health Professionals Gateway.
If we don’t own or have access to it here, request it through Interlibrary Loan*.
*Arcadia University login credentials required.
