This guide will help you get started finding resources for your research in public health. In order to gain access to articles and databases, you need to know that Your Library Account is the same as your SJSU One Account (Student/Faculty ID # and your SJSUOne Password)
Set up an ILLiad account with Interlibrary Loan so you can request articles from journals not owned by SJSU Library.
This is a FREE service, if we are not able to get the article because of the cost, we will let you know.
For Department please select Health Science.
Citation managers, such as Zotero and PaperPile are programs that allow users to collect, organize, and cite sources. They also allow for collaboration and some provide the ability to store and annotate PDFs within the system.
Organize sources using folders, tags, and even group libraries for collaboration with people across the world.
Many integrate with Google Docs and/or Microsoft Word to make it easy to cite sources while writing.
To learn more about citation managers and to get started, please visit libguides.sjsu.edu/citationmanagers/home.
Searches MEDLINE, the leading database of journal articles in the health sciences, including medicine, nursing, the allied health sciences, public health, and the basic sciences. Ovid MEDLINE is optimized for advanced searching. Coverage is 1946 - present. Note: You have the option to create a personal account by navigating to "My workspace" and then, following the prompt to set up an account. This allows you to save results and more.
This abstract and citation database covers thousands of scholarly journals, books, and conference proceedings. Covering a broad range of disciplines, Scopus enables one to track, analyze, and visualize research. Output data at the institutional and author levels are available. Authors will find h-index, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), and citation counts helpful in demonstrating the impact of their work.
Web of Science is a citation database that covers three major tools: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. The complete database covers thousands of scholarly journals from 1975 to the present across a broad range of disciplines. Included in the subscription: Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators (ESI). Use the ESI Help Guide and JCR Help Guide to learn more. Also included is the Grants Index which is found under the Web of Science core collection drop down menu.
Emcare, produced by Elsevier, covers all nursing specialties and nursing healthcare professions. Emcare includes international coverage of allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency and critical-care medicine. Emcare includes unique content not found in other nursing and allied health databases and features more than 1000+ journals not covered by Elsevier’s Embase database. Limited to 1 simultaneous user.
Multidisciplinary full text, peer reviewed academic journals that support scholarly research in key areas of academic study.