Public Health Resources

The Cochrane Library is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Published on a quarterly basis, The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care. The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases.

European database providing access to the biomedical literature.

Provides access to evidence-based public health resources. Created by the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Brings together the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS.

Access to the biomedical literature provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Focusing on low and middle-income countries, EVIPNet promotes partnerships at the country level between policy-makers, researchers, and civil society. The EVIPNet portal provides access to policy briefs, reports, and research syntheses to promote the systematic use of health research evidence in policy-making.

Nexis Uni provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical and reference information.

Chronicles global public policy and social issues. Provides access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, grey literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries.

Resources to support legislation and policy at the state and federal levels. Produced by Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health science libraries.

Searches a collection of primary and secondary legal research materials that includes federal and state case law, court rules, statutory and regulatory materials, reference publications, and full text legal periodicals.

Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook™ (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.

PsycINFO covers behavioral sciences and mental health literature for psychiatry, psychology, management, business, education, sociology, neuroscience, law, medicine and social work.

Contains abstracts of the literature of sociology and related social sciences from domestic and international journals.

Academic Search Ultimate is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of more than 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and more.

Scopus covers biomedical, social science, and arts and humanities literature. Complete coverage to 1966. Cited references only available to 1996.

Web of Science covers biomedical, social science, and arts & humanities literature. Supports citation searching and offers coverage back to the mid 1970s.

The largest worldwide union catalog covering all materials cataloged by more than 50,000 libraries in more than 90 countries.

An electronic information resource that is an aggregation of 40 bibliographic databases from around the world. Databases include the Index to South African Periodicals, IBISCUS, the database form the Africa Institute, African Journal Online, Media Africa, and NAMLIT (which is compiled from the National Library of Namibia).

The World Health Organization, in collaboration with the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA), has produced an international index to African health literature and information sources.

Search the Chinese literature on medicine, hygiene, health care, and the medicine of biology.

Browse more than 26,000 summarized documents from over 7,500 development organizations - all available free to download.

Brings together the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS.

Access to a variety of international sources including the WHO regional indexes (AIM, IMEMR, IMSEAR, LILACS, and WPRO).

A cumulative index, covering the period 1987-1990, to over 9000 articles in the health sciences published by journals within the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region. By documenting key bibliographic data for these articles, the index aims to increase awareness of research being conducted in this region and thus improve knowledge about the region's health problems as depicted in its local health literature.

Health science literature published by Latin American and Caribbean authors.

The web site of the South-East Asia Regional Office (SEARO) of the World Health Organization. Covers information related to that region of the world.

A tool developed by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, also known by its original name, the Regional Library of Medicine (BIREME, the acronym in Portuguese). BIREME is a specialized center of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO).

A resource for the communication and social change community. Includes a variety of documents (project evaluations, methodologies, planning models, etc.) relevant to specific countries and regions.

The Global Health Observatory theme pages provide data and analyses on global health priorities. Each theme page provides information on global situation and trends highlights, using core indicators, database views, major publications and links to relevant web pages on the theme. The WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) has been incorporated into the Global Health Observatory (GHO) to provide you with more data, more tools, more analysis and more reports.

The Grey Literature Report is a bimonthly publication of The New York Academy of Medicine Library alerting readers to new grey literature publications in health services research and selected public health topics.

OpenGrey (Formerly known as OpenSIGLE) is a free database of bibliographical references of reports and other grey literature produced in Europe. Topics include environmental pollution, social sciences, and biological & medical sciences.

Publications of the UK Department of International Development.

USAID's Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) is the largest online resource for USAID funded technical and program documentation, with over 150,000 documents available for electronic download. Search USAID's online database of agency-funded technical and program-related documents to download for free.