Recommended Databases
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Anthropology PlusIndexes journal articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries in many fields including social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, folklore and interdisciplinary studies. Covers the late 19th century-present. A compilation of the Anthropological Index Online and Anthropological Literature databases.
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ProQuest Research LibraryProvides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
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ProQuest Social Science DatabaseThis database, formerly known as "ProQuest Social Science Journals" provides citations and abstracts to articles from about 450 social sciences periodicals. Full-text/images are available for over 200 of the periodicals indexed. Coverage from 1994 to present.
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PubMedIncludes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
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Web of ScienceProvides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, and MEDLINE. Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work. Coverage varies.
Core Public Health Journals
These journals have the highest Impact Factors as reported in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) under the category of Public, Environmental, and Occupational Health. An Impact Factor is a measure of the frequency with which the articles in a journal have been cited in a particular year and is a proxy for the relative importance of a journal in its particular field.
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Annual Review of Public HealthThe Annual Review of Public Health, in publication since 1980, covers significant developments in the field of Public Health, including key developments in epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental and occupational health, issues related to social environment and behavior, health services, and public health practice.