Public Health Databases
Free Public Health DatabasesBrowse by title: ALL TITLES A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X
SafetyLit – Access is freely available to all. Abstracts from scholarly peer reviewed journals, selected reports from government agencies, university-based research centers, and professional organizations on injury prevention research. Maintained at San Diego State University.
Science Citation Index Expanded – Access is restricted to UMMS/UMMHC workstations or by proxy service. Covers 150 scientific areas. Includes 5,900 journals from medical research and clinical fields as well as from the "hard" sciences. Investigate particular subjects and see who is citing specific articles and authors.
SciFinder® – Access is restricted to UMMS workstations or by proxy service. A research tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases for literature from many scientific disciplines. SciFinder is now on the web; the client will not be available after 3-15-09. Contact Sally.Gore@umassmed.edu for a personal login and password.
Smoking & Health Resource Library – Access is freely available to all. Contains abstracts of tobacco-related articles from medical and professional journals; books and book chapters; dissertations; reports; conference proceedings and conference papers; government documents from federal, state, local, and foreign entities.
State Publications Search – Access is freely available to all. Contains citations for official state publications that include Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data and links to full-text state reports and newsletters. From the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
STD Communications Database – Access is freely available to all. A tool to help public health practitioners create specialized sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention programs. From the Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
