Research Guides: Health Information Management: Find Articles

Article Databases

Diseases and Conditions (clinical topics)

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the largest component of PubMed and consists primarily of journal citations; articles indexed with MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and curated with funding, genetic, chemical and other metadata.
CINAHL This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Provides indexing for nursing and health journals. The database contains records dating back to 1972. In addition, the database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, and selected conference proceedings.
CINAHL Abstracting and Indexing Database
Nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, nurse educators and students depend on the CINAHL Database to research their subject areas from this authoritative index of nursing and allied health journals. CINAHL indexes the top nursing and allied health literature available including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. CINAHL also includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 1,446 active global OA journals.  Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.
Subject Headings
CINAHL Subject Headings help users effectively search and retrieve information and follow the structure of the Medical Subject headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine. These Subject Headings help researchers find new concepts, including COVID-19, social distancing and vaping as well as local terminology.
Content Includes
3,814 active indexed and abstracted journals
3,461 active peer-reviewed indexed and abstracted journals
1,312 journals with searchable cited references
Public Health Database This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Public Health offers core literature for the study of public health, including biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, and behavioral sciences.

Technology, engineering (design and devices)

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
ACM Digital Library Contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full-text articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985. Full-text is not yet available for every proceeding article published before 1991.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: 50
IEEE Xplore provides Web access to full-text documents from publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics. The content in IEEE Xplore comprises journals, conference proceedings, eBooks and educational courses.
Inspec This link opens in a new window
Inspec provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts of the scientific and technical literature. Material covered includes journal articles, conference proceedings, reports, dissertations, patents and books published around the world.
HealthSTAR This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: 30
HealthSTAR contains bibliographic records from MEDLINE (1975 to present) and CATLINE (1985 to present), and records from three sources: the American Hospital Association, the National Health Planning Information Center and NLM's National Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR).
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: unlimited
Elsevier's Science Direct provides full-text ebook and journal content for scientific, technical, social science, and medical disciplines.

Health policies, administration (business angle)

ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window
via ProQuest. ABI/INFORM provides publications on business conditions, trends, and management techniques. Titles are available full-text, including the Wall Street Journal.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
via EBSCOhost. Business Source Complete contains full text journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business. Some of the titles included are Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, etc.

Health, Science and Management

Science.gov This link opens in a new window
Science.gov is a gateway to science information resources of the U.S. government. Users can search both government web sites and government databases. Full-text available.

National Technical Reports Library
access to a large collection of historical and current government technical reports that exists in many academic, public, government, and corporate libraries.

Ten Finding Tips

In addition to Library Search and talking with Subject Librarians, use the library research guides (or LibGuides), databases and resources listed on this page to search and identify journal articles, books, book chapters and other publications for health management information.

Use all relevant terms or keywords and, if available, the database controlled vocabulary ( thesaurus, subject headings, descriptors) in advanced search. Subject dictionaries, thesauri, and Credo Reference can help identify concepts and words for searching. These guides maybe useful:
- PubMed has Automatic Term Mapping, matching user terms to the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- Web of Science has subject categories and meso topics.
- Search for Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) to use in Library Search and identify synonyms and variant terms.
Search one concept at a time and then combine them using "AND" or "OR". Parentheses can be used to specify the search order for operators in a search string. If not, for example, in ProQuest, the order is PRE, NEAR, AND, OR, NOT.
Use database fields and filters, such as Date, Peer-Reviewed, Source Type, and Methodology to focus and narrow your search.
Use database guides, tutorials, search tips, tools, and help to efficiently search, filter, save/download, cite and more.
- Main database platform guides: ProQuest, EBSCOhost, PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Gale, ERIC, GovInfo
- JSTOR Text Analyzer uses the text of your document to suggest more articles.
- For Temple Libraries tutorials and upcoming workshops: Enter the database name or other search term in Library Search and look at results under Library Website.
- Use library research guides for courses and subjects to identify relevant databases and resources.
- Google search tips: List of operators
Follow linkages, such as subject, keyword, author, title or series, organization links and links to Similar Titles, Citations or Cited By, References, and More Like This.
- Use tools like Google Scholar and Web of Science Cited Reference Search
Register/Create account and login to save your search history and create alerts.
Select the Find Full Text links to get the entire source for non-full text indexing databases.
Link Google Scholar to Temple libraries so that the Find Full-Text @ Temple links will always appear. Go to our customized settings screen, check off Temple University Libraries link, and click Save.
To save time, search the entire ProQuest Central collection, which includes the Public Health database.
Some database specific advanced filtering capability and thesaurus terms may not be available.
Use Browzine to browse and read Public Health scholarly articles.
To create an account with the Browzine App, select Temple University and login with your AccesNet ID.
Target Core Journals and search all relevant databases.

Use Library Search and Ulrich's Periodical Directory to look up journal titles and the databases to access them.
Use Scimago Journal & Country Rank or Web of Science Journal Citation Reports to view rankings and journals impact factor.