This list is based on the Public Health Databases list from the Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health (EBPPH) website.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Abstracts in Anthropology - UC subscription
Academic Search Complete - UC subscription
ADOLEC, Literature on Adolescence Health - free access
Bibliographic database that contains articles related to adolescence, produced by the Pan American Health Organization.
AEGIS (AIDS Education Global Information System) - free access
Gateway to information about AIDS and HIV - its prevention, treatment and management - that is updated hourly. It features links to daily news reports, fact sheets and personal stories.
African Index Medicus – free access
Produced by the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) with the technical support of the World Health Organization.
AGRICOLA - UC Subscription
AGRICOLA – free access
The National Agricultural Library's free online catalog. Provides citations to agricultural literature.
Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH) – free access
From the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), a collection of links to databases, journals, and Web sites focused on alcohol research and related topics.
Alcohol Studies Database – free access
Contains over 70,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials
Alt-HealthWatch - UC subscription
Peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters focused on contemporary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
America's Newspapers - UC subscription
America's Newspapers is a collection of full-text newspapers available online. The database includes 17 Ohio newspapers, plus other major newspapers from other states. Content includes local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
ASFA3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality - UC subscription
The only abstracts journal devoted exclusively to research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries. ASFA 3 contains information that will prove essential to specialists who deal in any capacity with aquatic environments and marine pollution problems, including biologists, oceanographers, limnologists, environmental engineers and scientists, industrial engineers, waste managers, corporate regulatory affairs managers, and government officials.
BCERF, Environmental Risk Factor Database – free access
Database for bibliographic information on breast cancer environmental risk factors topics.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Bibliography – free access
Citation information for scientific publications that use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bibliography of Asian Studies - UC subscription
The BAS Online contains close to 660,000 references to books, journal articles, individually-authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc., published from 1971 until the present day. It encompasses the full content of the annual printed volumes of the BAS from the 1971 to the 1991 editions (the 1991 edition was the last volume available in print form). In addition, there are many references to publications after 1991, including citations to all articles from the 100 most-used journals in Asian studies (up to the present in many cases), and a substantial number of additional citations from earlier years in South Asian studies.
BiblioMap: Health Promotion References – free access
The EPPI-Centre systematic reviews on several aspects of health promotion.
Biological Abstracts & Previews - UC subscription
The premier source of life science information, Biological Abstracts & Previews abstracts bibliographic references to worldwide biological and medical literature. It contains references to journal items focusing on vital biological and medical research findings, pharmacological studies, and discoveries of new organisms. Approximately 5,500 international journals are reviewed for inclusion, representing virtually every life science discipline.
Cancer Prevention and Control – free access
A portal to sources of information on cancer produced by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CancerLit – free access
Links from the National Cancer Institute to perform cancer-related searches in PubMed.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications – free access
A searchable database of federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.
CDC Wonder – free access
A portal of links to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data.
Chemical Abstracts /
SciFinder Scholar (First Time Users Register Here) - UC subscription
First time users must register here first. Once registered the user can then access SciFinder Scholar at the next entry. SciFinder Scholar provides access to CAplus, a database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, CASREACT, and the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service. It includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts as well as articles currently being indexed, book reviews and biographical information.
Chicano Database - UC subscription
Bibliographic materials on Mexican-American topics 1967 to the present. Scope expanded 1992 to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database.
Cochrane Library - UC subscription
A unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases.
Community Guide: Guide to Community Preventative Services - free access
The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a free, web-based resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community.
CPDB (Carcinogenic Potency Database) – free access
A searchable database of quantitative and qualitative analyses of published literature relating to chronic, long-term animal cancer tests. Contains materials published through 1997/98 by the National Cancer Institute and the National Toxicology Program.
Criminal Justice Abstracts – UC subscription
Selected highlights of crime and delinquency literature; Information review on crime and delinquency; Crime and deliquency literature; Criminal justice abstracts.
Current Index to Statistics – UC subscription
The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. References are drawn from 111 core journals that are fully indexed, non-core journals from which articles are selected that have statistical content, proceedings and edited books, and other sources.
DESASTRES, Disaster Documentation Center Collection – free access
Developmental & Reproductive Toxicology (DART/ETIC) – free access
Dissertations & Theses – UC subscription
Includes full-text to over 800,000 dissertations from 1997 forward. The database also includes full-text to all UC dissertations published in electronic format. In addition, the database includes citations to dissertations from 1861-Present and Abstracts from 1980 forward. 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.
Dissertations & Theses (UC Electronic) – UC subscription
Access to a body of well over 8,000 University of Cincinnati electronic dissertations and theses, this is the best link to the broadest collection of electronic UC dissertations. The time period covers mainly from 1955 to the present. To acquire the dissertations electronically, users request the full text from UMI (ProQuest) and are sent a link and a password to access the dissertation. Dissertations from 1997 forward are available in the OhioLINK ETD at ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations)
DOE Information Bridge – free access
DoPHER, Database of Promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews – free access
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Publications – free access
Publications from the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Econlit – UC subscription
The American Economic Association's electronic database is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. It is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
ECOTOX – free access
Database of the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection agency providing single chemical toxicity information for aquatic and terrestrial life.
Electronic Library of Construction Safety and Health (eLCOSH) – free access
Provides a wide range of materials on construction safety and health. The goal is to improve safety and health for construction workers by making such information easy to obtain. The development of eLCOSH is supported through a grant from NIOSH.
ERIC (EBSCOhost) – UC subscription
ERIC indexes education-related literature, beginning in 1966. The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The database covers descriptions and evaluations of programs, research reports and surveys, curriculum and teaching guides, instructional materials, position papers, and resource materials. In 1993, ERIC began indexing education-related books, including the output of major publishers. More recently it includes full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004). ERIC may be accessed directly at http://www.eric.ed.gov . To take advantage of many links to full-text documents through OhioLINK, use this one.
EthnoMed – free access
EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network Multilingual Library – free access
Expanded Academic ASAP – UC subscription
Provides access to more than 3500 indexed and full-text periodical titles in all disciplines, the majority of which are peer-reviewed.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide Database - UC subscription
The Family & Society Studies Worldwide Database (FSSWD) includes the discontinued Inventory of Marriage and Family (produced by the National Council on Family Relations), the Australian Family & Society Abstracts, the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Health Canada and the U.S. Military Family Resource Center Documents Database. FSSWD includes nearly 600,000 records representing professional journals, books, popular literature, conference papers, internet documents, government reports, videos, pamphlets and even unpublished material such as poster sessions and statistical documents. Subjects covered include: families and family therapy, marriage, gender roles, aging, divorce, minorities and demography. Records may be directly exported into ProCite, EndNote or Reference Manager. Many of the records are linked to full text.
Family Studies Abstracts - UC subscription
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 45,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Marriage & Family, Family Relations, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1979.
Geobase – UC subscription
GEOBASE is a multidisciplinary database of indexed research literature on the earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation. Covers thousands of peer-reviewed journals, trade publications, book series and conference proceedings.
GPO Access – free access
The database provides access to important information products produced by the Federal Government. It includes numerous Congressional resources, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, the U.S.Code, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and more.
Grey Literature - free access
In general, grey literature publications are non-conventional, fugitive, and sometimes ephemeral publications. They may include, but are not limited to the following types of materials: reports (pre-prints, preliminary progress and advanced reports, technical reports, statistical reports, memoranda, state-of-the art reports, market research reports, etc.), theses, conference proceedings, technical specifications and standards, non-commercial translations, bibliographies, technical and commercial documentation, and official documents not published commercially (primarily government reports and documents) (Alberani, 1990).
Guide to Community Preventative Services - free access
The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a free, web-based resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your community.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) – UC subscription Note: On the first screen, click on "Continue" in the upper left hand corner.
Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Health Communication Materials Database – free access
Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project – free access
History of Science,Technology and Medicine – UC subscription
HST describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations on the History of science and technology... Citations reflect the contents of over 600 journals, plus partial contents of several hundred more. Coverage includes all languages in which these materials are published.
HIV Prevention Program Evaluation Materials Database – free access
Information about a variety of HIV prevention program evaluation resources appropriate to community-based organizations, health departments, capacity-building assistance providers, CDC staff, and other HIV prevention providers.
HLAS, Handbook of Latin American Studies – free access
HRSA Information Center – free access
HSTAT (Health Services/Technology Assessment Text) – free access
Human Genome Epidemiology Network (HuGENet™) – free access
HuGE Navigator provides access to a continuously updated knowledge base in human genome epidemiology, including information on population prevalence of genetic variants, gene-disease associations, gene-gene and gene- environment interactions, and evaluation of genetic tests.
IBIDS (International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements) – free access
Access bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international, and scientific literature on dietary supplements. Users can choose to search the Full IBIDS Database, a subset of Consumer Citations Only or Peer Reviewed Citations Only.
IndMED – free access
Bibliographic database covering prominent peer-reviewed Indian biomedical journals.
Journals: Public Health Journals at UC - UC subscriptions
This link leads to a list of Health and Biological Sciences journals. Scroll down to see a list of Public Health journal subject areas. The number at the end of each subject indicates the number of journals in this subject area. If the journal you're seeking is not included in the list of Public Health journals, scroll to the top of the page and type the name of the journal in the search field or click on the appropriate letter of the alphabet to browse for it.
LexisNexis Academic – UC subscription
This service provides Internet access to some of the most popular files of LexisNexis with easy, forms-based searching. There are nearly 20 basic libraries including: General News, Company News Industry & Market News, Company Financial Information Country Profiles, State Profiles, Biographical Information, Reference & Directories Law Reviews, Federal Case Law, Accounting, Auditing & Tax -- Many of the sources available on the traditional plan with some limitations on searching capabilities.
LILACS, Latin American and Caribbean Health Science – free access
Published since 1982. Registers the health scientific-technical literature published by Latin American and Caribbean authors.
Maternal and Child Health Library – free access
The MCH Library maintains several databases to collect, manage, and disseminate knowledge about maternal and child health (MCH), with special emphasis on knowledge gained from initiatives and programs supported by the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The library also provides a thesaurus of terms that are used to index the databases.
MathSciNet – UC subscription
An electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.
MD Consult – UC subscription
Includes electronic information resources (reference books, journals, practice guidelines, etc.) that meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals.
MedlinePlus – free access
Consumer health information on more than 700 topics provided by the National Library of Medicine.
MIPT's Lawson Terrorism Information Center – free access
These resources include reports, articles, fact sheets, and links to websites with terrorism-related information.
Mental Measurements Yearbooks – UC subscription
Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. Each entry includes test name and classification; author(s); publisher, publication date; price; time requirements; existence of validity and reliability data; score descriptions; levels; and intended populations.
National Ag Safety Database (NASD) – free access
A national central repository of agricultural health, safety, and injury prevention materials for the agricultural community and especially for agricultural safety specialists. The database is maintained by the Southern Coastal Agromedicine Center.
National Center for Health Statistics – free access
NCHS collects data from birth and death records, medical records, interview surveys, and through direct physical exams and laboratory testing that provide important surveillance information that helps identify and address critical health problems.
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) Publications – free access
Searchable database of all publications that have been published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authors within the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Virtual Library – free access
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
National Guideline Clearinghouse – free access
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, the National Guideline Clearinghouse is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
National Library of Medicine - free access
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
National Library of Medicine Databases and Electronic Resources - free access
A list of all the database and electronic resources that NLM provides.
National Library of Medicine: Health Services Research & Public Health Information Programs - free access
A single Web site that lists resources from multiple NLM program areas
National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) Materials – free access
Access is freely available to all. Information about educational materials tailored to a variety of audiences and focusing on the prevention of HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB. Some of the items are available through NPIN and can be ordered online. From the National Prevention Information Network.
Native Health Research Database – free access
Bibliographic resources for health and health care of Native Americans. From the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center.
NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) - free access
NHS EED contains 24,000 abstracts of health economics papers including over 7,000 quality assessed economic evaluations.. The database aims to assist decision-makers by systematically identifying and describing economic evaluations, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses.
NIOSHTIC-2 – free access
Searchable bibliographic database of occupational safety and health publications, documents, grant reports, and other communication products supported in whole or in part by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), CDC.
NLM® Gateway - free access
Gateway is "One-stop shopping" for an increasing number of the information resources of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). It’s targeted to the Internet user who comes to NLM not knowing exactly what is here, or how best to search for it. A single interface that searches in multiple retrieval systems, Gateway provides a single address, look, and feel.
NTIS, National Technical Information Service - free access
The National Technical Information Service serves as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. For more than 60 years NTIS has assured businesses, universities, and the public timely access to approximately 3 million publications covering over 350 subject areas.
OncoLink - free access
Through OncoLink you can get comprehensive information about specific types of cancer, updates on cancer treatments and news about research advances.
PAIS - UC subscription
The PAIS International database covers the literature of public affairs -- current issues and actions which affect world communities, countries, people, and governments. This database provides access to articles, books, and documents addressing important political, economic and social issues. PAIS concentrates on topics that are or might become the subject of legislation.
PAIS Archive - UC subscription
PAIS Archive is a retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues. Providing selective subject and bibliographical access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, and other English-language materials published around the world, it contains approximately 1,000,000 records, originally published in the PAIS Bulletin, 1915-1976. PAIS Archive complements the contemporary coverage of the PAIS International database.
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce - free access
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries which provides timely, convenient access to selected public health resources on the Internet.
PILOTS Database – free access
Index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events.
Pollution Abstracts - UC subscription
This database provides fast access to the environmental information necessary to resolve day-to-day problems, ensure ongoing compliance, and handle emergency situations more effectively. Pollution Abstracts combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource. Topics of growing concern are extensively covered from the standpoints of atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents has been summarized along with information from primary journals in the field.
POPLINE®(POPulation information onLINE) - free access
POPLINE is the world's largest database on reproductive health, containing citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is maintained by the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development. (USAID).
Population Index - free access
This is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000.
ProQuest Newspapers - UC subscription
Abstracts of articles published from 1989 to the present in 27 U.S. newspapers.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - UC subscription
The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database with more than 510 full text titles covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
PsycINFO - UC subscription
Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycINFO is a collection of electronically stored bibliographic references--most with abstracts or content summaries. It contains citations that PsycINFO has created in electronic form. Although the references themselves are all written in English, the covered literature includes material published in over 45 countries and written in 30 languages.
Public Health Image Library (PHIL) – free access
Content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files. Many images are copyright protected.
Public Health Journals at UC - UC subscriptions
This link leads to a list of Health and Biological Sciences journals. Scroll down to see a list of Public Health journal subject areas. The number at the end of each subject indicates the number of journals in this subject area. If the journal you're seeking is not included in the list of Public Health journals, scroll to the top of the page and type the name of the journal in the search field or click on the appropriate letter of the alphabet to browse for it.
Public Health Reviews - some free access, some not
Websites and databases of other Systematic Reviews in Health Promotion and Public Health. This is a list of resources located on the Cochrane Library website. Some of the links still work and some do not. There are a number that are from foreign countries so may be of limited use for the US public health system.
PubMed – link provides access to UC full text journals
This PubMed link provides a UC button that leads to the online journals to which UC subscribes. Public access to the MEDLINE database of over 18 million citations. PubMed also provides access and links to other Entrez molecular biology resources.
RAND Books and Publications - free access
RAND conducts research and provides analysis to address challenges that face the United States and the world. Today, RAND emphasizes several areas of research that reflect the changing nature of a global society. Much of this research is carried out on behalf of public and private grantors and clients.
Reactions - UC subscription
A source for adverse drug information needs of the world's adverse drug reaction literature presented in summary format. Case reports contain data as specified by CIOMS II guidelines. Overdose, interaction, serious and first case reports are highlighted, and FDA MedWatch criteria for classifying serious reports are used.
REPIDISCA – free access
Citations, emphasizing documents produced in Latin America and the Caribbean, on the topics of environmental health, water supply and wastewater, solid and hazardous wastes, and healthy cities.
Reports of the Surgeon General - free access
In recent decades, the Surgeon General has become the most widely recognized and respected voice on public health issues, preventive medicine, and health promotion through public appearances, speeches, and, most influentially, the reports featured on this Web site. The Surgeon General has often been called upon to deal with difficult and controversial issues, such as smoking and sexual health. In some cases, the public health message has generated controversy, when it ran counter to the political beliefs of the time. But the Surgeon General's public statements often served to generate debate where there had been silence, to the benefit of the nation's health.
ReproLine®: Reproductive Health Online – free access
Resource Guide for Public Health Preparedness – free access
Risk Abstracts - UC subscription
Published in association with the Institute for Risk Research at the University of Waterloo, Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk. The journal includes occasional articles on topics of significant interest. The broad, multidisciplinary coverage of risk-related concerns ranges from public and environmental health to social issues and psychological aspects.
SafetyLit – free access
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/Web of Science - UC subscription
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® – UC subscription
A research tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases for literature from many scientific disciplines.
SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results - free access
A premier source for cancer statistics in the United States. SEER collects information on incidence, survival, and prevalence from specific geographic areas representing 26 percent of the US population and compiles reports on all of these plus cancer mortality for the entire US. This site is intended for anyone interested in US cancer statistics or cancer surveillance methods.
Smoking & Health Resource Library - free access
The database contains abstracts of 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; fact sheets and policy documents from U.S. and international nonprofit organizations; and other documents. New Citations added to the database in the last eight weeks are also available. New Citations include recently published tobacco-related articles from peer-reviewed journals of behavioral, scientific, and medical literature.
Social Sciences Citation Index - UC subscription
Publicly Available. The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
Social Sciences Index - UC subscription
Indexes articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Indexing coverage begins with Feb. 1983.
SocINDEX with Full Text - UC subscription
The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,910,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 397 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 150 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,743 conference papers.
State Publications Search – free access
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 – free access
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.
Toxicology Abstracts - UC subscription
Covers issues from social poisons and substance abuse to natural toxins, from legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues. Surveying the literature for toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, and myriad other substances, each issue publishes information concerning the in vivo effects of toxic substances.
Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) - free access
Annual environmental releases of over 600 toxic chemicals by U.S. facilities.
Toxicology Literature Online (TOXLINE) - free access
References from toxicology literature.
TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network) – free access
National Library of Medicine's portal to databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
TRIS (Transportation Research Information Service) – free access
Bibliographic database of published transportation-related research including technical reports, books, conference proceedings and journal articles. Many links go to full-text sources.
TRoPHI, Trials Register of Promoting Health Interventions – free access
A registry of randomized and non-randomized controlled trials of public health and health promotion interventions. TRoPHI is hosted by the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre).
Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) - free access
The TRIP Database, a resource for Evidence-Based Medicine allows users to identify clinical evidence for clinical practice.
Water Resources Abstracts - UC subscription
Provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.
Wilson Omni File - UC subscription
Full Text Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text.
WorldCat - UC subscription
Check other libraries nationally and internationally for books, journals, audiovisuals and electronic media.
*This list is based on the Public Health Databases list from the Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health (EBPPH) website. The website is an outcome of the Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Project, based at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.