LibGuides: KINS 4590: Public Health Research and Evaluation: Articles

Finding Articles through the Library

For journal articles in public health, access some of the databases linked below:

For a more precise search, use the online thesaurus for vocabulary to represent the concepts of your research topic.
Place each unique concept in a separate row. Use AND to connect concepts (for example, exercise AND lifestyle changes). Both concepts will be present in your results.
Limit your results to peer reviewed for abstracts from scholarly publications.

For journal articles on topics related to public health, use:

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
CINAHL® Plus is a robust collection of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for journals indexed in CINAHL®. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1937, CINAHL® Plus is a core research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
CINAHL® Plus also provides indexing for more than 5,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 4 million records dating back to 1937.
MEDLINE (Web of Knowledge) This link opens in a new window
Articles in medical journals/medical research compiled by the National Library of Medicine. Includes detailed and controlled medical terminology (MESH headings) for each entry, to identify and fully trace research on specific medical topics.
Subjects include biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
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PubMed comprises of citations for biomedical journal articles from MEDLINE (or queued to be included in MEDLINE in the future), other life science journals, and selected medical books.
The Stan State library link adds a code (?otool=cacsuslib) to tell PubMed to add a Find It! link to let you access Stan State library subscriptions or an Interlibrary Loan request form for an article.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary, full-text database offering full-text articles, including peer-reviewed titles; also includes indexing and abstracts. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.

To determine if a journal is available in full text in a database, search by journal title or ISSN using the Journals A-Z link in OneSearch.

Online Journals in Public Health

American Journal of Public Health
The American Journal of Public Health publishes current, in-depth public health information and is the publication health organizations depend on.
The Nation's Health: The official newspaper of the American Public Health Association
Official newspaper of the American Public Health Association

Public Health Periodicals
Browse periodicals on the topic of public health.
DOI Lookup
Stanislaus State DOI Lookup service to link to articles via the appropriate University Library Service (including EBSCO or Interlibrary Loan)

Getting the Text of Articles

Searching a database will provide citations to scholarly journal articles and other scientific research.

To access the full-article, look for links to:

If there are no full-text links, use Find It! to see if article is available in another library subscription.

Finding Articles on the Internet

Google Scholar is a good resource for scholarly articles available online.

To access articles from library databases, click settings, library links, then search CSU Stanislaus. Check all boxes for CSU Stanislaus and Open WorldCat library search. Articles available in full text in a library database or via open access will include a pdf link on the right side of the list of results.

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