Research Subject Guides: PHTH 2414: Environmental Health: Databases and more

In this section you'll find selected databases and other sources that will contain environmental health content.

Go to each subpage for information on specific types of publications.

News Sources
e-Books
Journals

PubMed

The go to resource for health science research is PubMed. As a resource from the National Library of Medicine, it is transparent and support is provided both through NLM staff and many tutorials. Here at Northeastern, you can reach out to me, Lauri Fennell, or another health sciences librarian with your questions.

PubMed (NU customized) This link opens in a new window
Primary content comes from Medline, life science and biomedicine. PubMed is a free web resource for connecting to bibliographic article information with direct connection to PubMed Central (repository of full text articles) This link connects to Northeastern-subscribed journals which will require an NU login.

Want to know more about how to use PubMed? This tutorial "Getting Started with PubMed" should help.

Selected Databases

Public health is an interdisciplinary field of study. It crosses many subject areas. Search several different databases for the most comprehensive search results.

A few that those researching environmental health might find useful are included below.

GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE is an informative resource containing nearly 300,000 records, with full text for selected titles, and searchable cited references with library links for more than 200 additional titles
A free version of this resource is also available.
Public Health Database (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Core public health literature with access to 500 full-text publications and 9,000 dissertations as well as research reports and newspaper articles.
Web of Science, All Databases This link opens in a new window
Use this link for access to citation tracking and subject searching of scholarly literature. Data visualizations, alerts, and journal impact factors. Includes the Web of Science Core Collection. One of the largest curated databases of scholarly research, with citations in some subjects from 1900 to the present.
Northeastern's subscription includes:Web of Science Core Collection (Arts and humanities, social sciences and Science Citation indexes)
Biosis Citation Index
Biosis Previews
Current Contents Connect
Data Citation Index
Derwent Innovations Index
KCI-Korean Journal Database
Medline
SciELO Citation Index

Environmental Health Topics

National Insitute of Environmental Health Sciences-TOPICS
This page contains a list of topics covering conditions such such as asthma, issues related to ozone, and populations affected such as Native Americans.