LibGuides: Public Health: Subject databases

Useful Resources

EBSCO databases

You need to use a maximum of 2-3 databases for your dissertation - CINAHL is best for public health students. Your choice of other databases will depend on the subject of your project e.g. if looking at mental health you will need to use at least PsycInfo.

Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary database covering broad spectrum of subjects.
AMED Allied and complementary medicine databases
Alternative medicine database for physicians, therapists, medical researchers and clinicians looking to learn more about alternative treatments. AMED contains bibliographic records for relevant articles from over 500 journals, with the scope of coverage being mainly European. Many of the journals included in AMED are not indexed by other biomedical sources. AMED is produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library.
CINAHL Ultimate
Covers nursing, biomedicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
Medline
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) premier medical research database that contains more than 29 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) making for a more thorough search.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO is the world's largest psychology databases covering nearly 2,500 journals. Includes materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organisational behaviour.
PsycArticles
Coverage of approx 120 journals in psychology and related fields

SCOPUS

Scopus is a comprehensive science and social science database which also retrieves articles from Science Direct. It searches in a different way from EBSCO. Put two or more words together in brackets and separate synonms with a capitalised OR - see screenshot below for example search.

SCOPUS

Example Scopus search

Useful Websites

Statistics websites

Public Health Associations

Some key reference resources which will help you with topic definitions are:

Karger Fast Facts
Fact cards on medical topics

SAGE Research Methods
SAGE Research Methods supports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process.
Springer Protocols
Springer protocols is a database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the life and biomedical sciences. It offers researchers access to reproducible, step-by-step protocols for use in a lab.

There are a number of resources you can use to find dissertations and theses from Coventry University and other national and international universities. Please note that the library does not hold copies of undergraduate or taught Masters dissertations.

EThOS (British Library Theses)
THIS WEBSITE IS CURRENTLY DOWN AFTER A CYBER ATTACK. Based at the British Library, EThOS allows you to view records for all theses (PhD & Masters level) produced at UK HE institutions and many of these are now available to download online. You need to register first to do this and it is free of charge.

NDLTD - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
NDLTD is a free service which allows you to see across thousands of theses produced at institutions around the world.
Coventry University Theses
You can find theses produced at Coventry through our online institutional repository - PURE.

MedPix
A freely accessible image database of medical images provided by the National Library of Medicine and National Institute of Health in the US.
Public Health Image Library
A wide selection of modern and historical images relating to public health from the CDC (Center for Disease Control) in the US.

Public Health: Subject databases

Useful Resources

EBSCO databases

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