Tufts Resources

Databases

• AARP AgeLine
  American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
  Materials related to aging and middle age, from an interdisciplinary perspective of psychology, economics, sociology, gerontology, public policy, business, health and health care services, and consumer issues.
• CAB Abstracts
  Literature in agriculture, nutrition, animal health & natural resources.
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)
  Covers a variety of databases, the earliest begining in 1975. Databases include: ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries; Biological Sciences; Biology Digest; Conference Papers Index; ERIC; PAIS; Plant Science; Sociological Abstracts; TOXLINE ; Zoological Record
• EcoSal
  Comprehensive archive of the entire corpus of knowledge on the enteric bacterial cell.
• Global Health
  International database providing comprehensive coverage of the core public health literature, particularly in the areas of tropical medicine, infectious diseases, vector control, food safety and epidemiology.
• Global TB database
  World Health Organization
  Contains data regarding world-wide TB incidence, prevalence, death and detection rate.
• Health and Safety Science Abstracts
  Comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety and industrial hygiene.
• HealthSTAR
  Literature in health administration, healthcare econcomics, and technology.
• MEDLINE
  Biomedical journal literature
• PAIS International
  Database of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Abstracts, including those in the Archive, are available from 1915 to the present.
  
• SCOPUS
  An index to the scientific technical and medical literature covering 14,000 scholarly titles including 2,700 titles in Social Science, Psychology, and Economics. Updated daily. Full-text linking is available wherever the technology and the access arrangements permit and continues to expand as such arrangements allow. Integrated web searching and patent searching by Scirus.
• TB (Tuberculosis) Database
  Stanford U. School of Medicine/Broad Institute
  Contains TB-related gene expression and genome sequences. TB Database is a multi-institutional collaboration makes available the tools and resources available at the Stanford Microarray Database and the Broad Institute.
  
• Haz-Map
  National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health
  Occupational health and toxicology database designed to link jobs and hazardous job-related tasks to exposure, chemicals, and occupational diseases and their syptoms.
• TOXMAP
  National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health
  A Geographic Information System (GIS) that uses maps of the U. S. to help users visually explore data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• TOXNET
  National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health
  Databases include hazardous chemicals (HSDB), genetic toxicology (GENE-TOX), reproductive toxicology (DART/ETIC), human risk values and cancer classifications (ITER).
• Tox Town
  National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health
  Information on everyday locations where you might find toxic chemicals; links to selected, authoritative chemical information and non-technical descriptions; how the environment can impact human health and links to resources on environmental health topics.
• Web of Knowledge
  Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
  Provides retrospective access with cited references from articles covered from 1974 in: Arts & Humanities Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Journals

Our subscriptions are linked from:

• Ovid
  • Limit to Local Holdings to retrieve articles available at Tufts in print or electronically.
• PubMed
  • Accessing PubMed from the HHSL web site provides information about Tufts owned subscriptions and provide access to full-text owned by Tufts.
• TDNet
• Enter title abbreviation, phrase in the title, or exact title.
• Select the relevant option under Partial Words, which works for abbreviations. Click Go.
• Tufts Catalog
  • Select Journal Title and enter the abbreviation or the first few words of the title (drop initial articles).
  • If several titles are displayed, click a likely one. A link that begins Connect to http appears at the top of records for Tufts' e-journals.
    

Electronic Journals:

• Recent issues of these journals are available @ Tufts or on the Web.
• Follow the link or search Tufts TDnet for coverage details.
• See the Directory of Open Access Journals for more e-journals in psychiatry.

Texts

• Communicating public health information effectively: a guide for practitioners
  5th floor WA 100 C735 2002

• Dartmouth atlas of health care

• Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries

• Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

• Healthy people 2010 : understanding and improving health
  Reserve WA 550 AA1 H377u 2000

• Informing the future : critical issues in health
  5th floor WA 525 I587i 2003

• International public health: diseases, programs, systems, and policies
  Reserve WA 530.1 I6105 2001

• Microbial threats to health: emergence, detection, and response
  5th floor WA 110 M626 2003

• The nation's health
  5th floor WA 100 N284 2003

• Oxford handbook of public health practice
  Reference WA 39 O98 2001

• Priorities in Health

• Public health management of disasters: the practice guide
  5th floor WA 525 L256p 2001

• Qualitative methods in public health: a field guide for applied research
  5th floor WA 20.5 U39q 2005

• Sickness and wealth : the corporate assault on global health
  5th floor WA 530.1 S566 2004

• Terrorism and public health: a balanced approach to strengthening systems and protecting people
  5th floor WA 295 T3277 2003

Our Guides

• Bioterrorism & Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Consumer Health
• Dentistry
• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Grants & Funding
• Healthcare Management
• Nutrition
• Statistics

Other Tufts Sites

• Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
• SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
  Health information in Chinese, Cambodian, Hmong, Korea, Thai, and Vietnamese. A joint initiative of the South Cove Community Health Center and Tufts University Health Sciences Library supported by a grant from the New England Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
• Tufts Graduate Programs Public Health

Government & International Agencies

Massachusetts

• Boston Public Health Commission
• Massachusetts Deptartment of Public Health

National

• Administration for Children & Families
• Administration on Aging
• Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
• Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
• National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
• National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)
• Office of the Surgeon General (DHHS)
• U.S. Agency for International Developmental (USAID)
  

International

• European Union - Public Health Activities (EU)
• Institut Pasteur - France
• Karolinska Institutet - Sweden
• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
• World Bank: Health, Nutrition and Population
• World Health Organization (WHO)

Academic & Society Sites

• American Public Health Association
• Association of Schools of Public Health
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTO)
• Massachusetts Association of Health Boards
• Massachusetts Public Health Association
• National Association of Community Health Centers
• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
• National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems

Web Guides

• MEASURE DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys)
  Funded by U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Global Health (BGH)
  Produces a wide variety of publications that provide country specific and comparative data on population, health, and nutrition in developing countries.
• MEDLINEPlus
  National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine
  Guide to health information including lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs, health news, and links to clinical trials.
• Minority Health
  Agency for Healthcare Reseach and Quality
  
• Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
  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. Topics include:
  • Health Promotion and Health Education
  • Literature and Guidelines
  • Health Data Tools and Statistics
  • Grants and Funding
  • Education and Training
  • Legislation and Policy
  • Conferences and Meetings
• PulseNet
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  PulseNet is a national network of public health and food regulatory agency laboratories coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• State Health Departments
  Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
  Allows users to search the health departments of each state.
• What are Health Disparities?
  National Institutes of Health
  Six focus areas in which racial and ethnic minorities experience serious disparities in health access and outcomes.