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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Host database retrieval system)

  • Covers a wide range of academic areas including arts, business, communication, education, humanities, language and linguistics, literature, sciences, social sciences, technology and women's studies
  • Full text for more than 2,330 journals dating back to 1990
  • Can limit search results to refereed or peer-reviewed journals

Alt-HealthWatch

  • Request a free trial of this resource.
  • Includes alternative medicine articles from international, peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, and newsletters.

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) (EBSCO Host database retrieval system)

  • Can limit search results to refereed or peer-reviewed journals

Cochrane Library

  • High-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare policy makers from seven databases
  • Includes Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Database and NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED) on Cochrane.

Dissertations & Theses Express

  • Comprehensive collection of more than 2.3 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses, covering graduate research from 1861 to the present.
  • There is a fee for ordering dissertations and theses.

Medline (OvidSP database retrieval system)

National Library of Medicine (NLM) Gateway

  •  Includes meeting abstracts on health policy

POPLINE  

  • Includes policies on reproductive health
  • $15 charge per document ordered for those in non-developing countries.

Proquest Social Science Journals

  •  Access to more than 160 key journals for the study of social sciences
  •  Subjects include anthropology, community health and medical care, family studies, gender studies, international relations, minority studies, psychiatry, and social work
  • Can limit search results to refereed and peer–reviewed articles
  • Can narrow within search result sets by adding keywords

PubMed 

  • This PubMed link includes access to UMDNJ Libraries E-Journal articles where available for those in the UMDNJ Community.
  • PubMed versus MEDLINE--What is the difference?

SCIRUS  

  • Free, scientific search engine assists in locating grey literature--articles and web pages on health policy topics
  • Can click on provided key terms to narrow within a result set

Web of Science

  • Contains Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index
  • Covers over 6,000 U.S. and international, multidisciplinary journals
  • Features include tools for tracking citations in the published literature, Cited Reference Search, and a related product Journal Citation Reports
  • Related Records locates articles that have cited references in common; and Times Cited provides a list of articles that cite a source article.
  • Also, try Journal Citation Reports (Additional Resources tab in Web of Science) to determine top social science health policy journals.