Research Guides: Health Sciences: Articles / Statistics

Using Databases to Find Articles

You can search for articles in one of the library's databases. See our list of Health Sciences databases, or the recommended databases below on this page, for a list of recommended databases to search for articles on this topic.

The research and search help page of this guide has information on using Google Scholar or EBSCO databases for your search, as well as how to use the library's journal search tool to look for an article by citation or see if the library provides access to a specific journal.

Recommended Databases

APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
APA PsycNet This link opens in a new window
Provides access to content from the American Psychological Association. Includes full-text journal articles and book chapters in all areas of psychology.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO) 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 (OhioLINK) 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.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Public Affairs Index (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles, conference papers, trade publications, and government documents in areas including banking & public finance, criminal justice, economic policy & taxation, education & education policy, emigration & immigration, energy & energy policy, ethics, government, humanitarian issues, industry & labor, law & legislation, natural disasters & poverty, politics & elections, social policy, and transportation.
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.
R2 Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Electronic books in health care and nursing fields.

Journals

You can find hundreds of journals and magazines on health sciences for free in the library databases listed in the "databases" box, above. You can also search for specific journals using our journal finder. See our Research & Search Help page for information on how to use the journal finder to search for journals related to health sciences.

Government Sources

Federal and state government sites can be great places to find information on demographics and social issues.

U.S. Federal Government

Search USA.gov to look for information from the federal government.

USA.gov
A website which makes it easy for the public to get U.S. government information and services on the web. This is an interagency initiative administered by the Federal Citizen Information Center, a division of the U.S. General Services Administration's Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies.

State Government

For a state government, try searching Google with your topic, state and "site:.gov". This limits just to government sites.

Google government search
Google search, limited to government sites. Put your state and search term after the "site: *.gov" in the search box.

Statistics

Data Planet
Now Available through Sage Data. 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.

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.

Health Sciences

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Recommended Databases

Journals

Government Sources

Statistics