Research Guides: Health Sciences: Journals and Journal Articles

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.

Recommended Databases

APA PsycINFO
Abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
APA PsycNet
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)
Index, abstracts, and full text covering scholarly business journals on management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Index, abstracts, and full text of the literature of nursing and allied health.
Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK)
Full text of over 7,000 research journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Index, abstracts, and full text focusing on many medical disciplines.
MEDLINE with Full Text
Comprehensive index for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,370 journals.
Nursing & Allied Health
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
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)
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
Comprises more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
R2 Digital Library
The R2 platform includes eBooks in on a variety of topics in healthcare, including nursing, mental health topics, physical therapy, and more.

Journals

Below is a list of recommended journals available through the Franklin University Library on the topic of health sciences. More journals on the topic of "health sciences" can be found via the Library's journal finder.

Health Sciences Review
Health Sciences Review aims to give insight into the most urgent and important questions facing clinicians globally across the many different fields of health sciences. It welcomes articles from all disciplines and articles that look at important interdisciplinary clinical issues.
Journal of Health Sciences & Surveillance System
The quarterly Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System is a non profitable periodical, common to the School of Health and Nutrition and the vice-chancellor for Health at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. The journal publishes original research papers, short communications, scientific notes, case reports, letter to editors, and review articles in English. The scope of papers comprises all aspects of Health Sciences and Surveillance System.
Journal of Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences
Provides information about the relationship between practice and research in the social, behavioral and health sciences.
Nursing & Health Sciences
Nursing & Health Sciences (NHS) is a high impact peer reviewed Wiley journal publishing high quality primary and secondary research to inform healthcare policy and practice.
Research Methods in Medicine & Health Sciences
Research Methods in Medicine & Health Sciences is a peer reviewed journal, publishing rigorous research on established “gold standard” methods and new cutting edge research methods in the health sciences and clinical medicine.

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

IBISWorld
US and global industry reports, including overviews, industry performance, and outlook, key companies and statistics, operating conditions, and useful infographics.
Business environment profiles, including consumer behavior, demographics, economics, commodities, and financial markets.
Search by NAICS code or keywords.
Mergent Market Atlas
Formerly known as Mergent.

Mergent Market Atlas contains the corporate information of over 50,000 US and foreign public companies, current and historical (past 15 years). Also included are firm descriptions, statistics, financial information and ratios, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, capital stock, and insider trading.

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.

Statista
Provides statistics, forecasts, and reports for 170 industries, and over 150 countries around the globe.

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