Research Guides: DHA: Doctor of Healthcare Administration: Healthcare Research

Recommended Databases and Statistics

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text covering scholarly business journals on management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text of the literature of nursing and allied health.
Electronic Journal Center This link opens in a new window
Full text of over 7,000 research journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text focusing on many medical disciplines.
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,370 journals.
Nursing & Allied Health This link opens in a new window
Mix of scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews which takes a holistic and interdisciplinary approach.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Comprises more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Doctoral dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.
Electronic Theses and Dissertation Center (OhioLINK) This link opens in a new window
Online theses and dissertations from Ohio graduate students.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window
Information about and links to freely-available full-text to almost almost 3.5 million graduate theses and dissertations from over 1,100 colleges, universities, and research institutions.
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
Catalog of dissertations, theses and published material based on theses, worldwide.
Open Dissertations This link opens in a new window
Open access database providing both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Includes content of the American Doctoral Dissertations database, which provides more than 153,000 theses and dissertations from 1902 to the present, as well as additional dissertation information provided by colleges and universities from around the world. Includes links to full-text from free platforms where available.

Data Planet This link opens in a new window
Provides an all-in-one resource for social science researchers and students to access statistics relevant to their areas of study. Includes access to more than 13.5 billion U.S. and international datasets from over 90 sources. Platform includes data downloads and visualization tools. Replaces the Sage Stats and U.S. Political Stats databases. Access to data from 2017-2021, no new data sets added after 2021.

GigaScience (BioMed Central)
GigaScience is an open access, open data, open peer-review journal focusing on ‘big data’ research from the life and biomedical sciences.
Google Dataset Search
Search tool from Google which provides access to datasets in a variety of formats. Includes the ability to filter search results by date updated, format, rights, and whether usage is free.
Journal of Open Health Data
Open Health Data features peer-reviewed data papers describing health datasets with high reuse potential. We are working with a number of specialist and institutional data repositories to ensure that the associated data are professionally archived, preserved, and openly available. Equally importantly, the data and the papers are citable, and reuse will be tracked.
National Center for Health Statistics
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is a rich source of data for researchers, teachers, and students who want to perform data analysis. This page compiles key sources of information found on the NCHS website for those who are interested in analysis of NCHS data as well as documentation and methodology of NCHS data systems.