Research Guides by Subject: Tufts University Health Sciences Library

Article Databases

ABI/INFORM Global
Contains content from more than 1,600 business and management publications worldwide, covering advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also provides access to reports on market conditions, and in-depth case studies of global business trends.

CAB Abstracts
Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI)
Literature in agriculture, nutrition, animal health & natural resources.

Global Health
Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI)
International database providing comprehensive coverage of the core public health literature, particularly in the areas of tropical medicine, human nutrition, infectious diseases, vector control, food safety and epidemiology.

Health Reference Center
Contains articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.

LILACS (Latin American & Caribbean Health Sciences Literature)
LILACS is a cooperative database compiled and edited by BIREME and Pan American Health Organization PAHO) that indexes more than 670 medical journals in Latin America and Caribbean.

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National Library of Medicine
International 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.

PolicyFile
U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature

POPLINE
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related health issues.

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.

Web of Science
Multidisciplinary coverage of high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings

Web Resources

Kaiser Family Foundation
Non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., as well as the U.S. role in global health policy.

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.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
U.S. federal agency responsible for health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new health threats.

State Health Departments
U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Allows users to search the health departments of each state.

World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system.