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Journal Databases

Journal databases allow you to search for published research articles. These databases index copious amounts of published literature so that you may search their contents and extract those articles that are of interest to you. This tutorial focuses on those databases whose material is available without cost, but additional databases that categorize much more information are also available for purchase. Contacting a local librarian in either the public or academic fields can be highly advantageous to your search as they may be able to direct you to additional resources through their institutional affiliations.

Effective methods of searching vary from database to database. Many databases use their own thesaurus terms. Some use natural language keywords to retrieve articles for you. In either case, investigating how these databases are retrieving the articles will likely make your search more effective and accurate. Additional information can be found in the Search for Answers section of the Searching the Public Health Literature tutorial.

PubMed
PubMed provides access to MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE and more. MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, the health care system, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences. More than 4,800 journals from 70 different countries are indexed.

AgeLine
AgeLine abstracts the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences. It covers aging-related issues for professionals in aging services, health, business, law, and mental health. AgeLine also includes selected consumer oriented content.

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence Literature Database (VioLit)
VioLit is a violence-related research literature database with abstracts and reference information. This database stores bibliographic information and abstracts of violence related research and literature. This literature primarily includes journal articles, books, reports and literature reviews on the topics related to juvenile violence.

ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.

Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
This database provides comprehensive, peer-reviewed toxicological data for over 4700 chemicals with excerpts from published literature on human health effects, emergency medical treatment, chemical/physical properties, metabolism/pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, and laboratory methods.

International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) Database
The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international, and scientific literature on dietary supplements. Users can choose to search the Full IBIDS Database, a subset of Consumer Citations Only or Peer Reviewed Citations Only.

POPLINE
POPLINE, the world's largest database on reproductive health, provides more than 300,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.

National Criminal Justice Reference Services Virtual Library
The National Criminal Justice Reference Services Abstracts Database contains summaries of the more than 185,000 criminal justice publications housed in the NCJRS Library collection.

Native Health Research Database
The Native Health Databases contain bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. The databases provide information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and individuals with an interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American indigenous peoples.

SafetyLit
The weekly SafetyLit update provides abstracts of English language reports from researchers in several disciplines relevant to preventing unintentional injuries, violence, and self-harm. SafetyLit summaries are drawn from anthropology, economics, education, engineering, ergonomics, law and law enforcement, medicine, physiology, psychology, public health, public safety, nursing, social work, traffic safety, and other fields.

TOXLINE
TOXicology Literature OnLINE provides an extensive array of references to literature on biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals. Over three million references from MEDLINE/PubMed (TOXLINE Core) and other toxicology literature, including research in progress and meeting abstracts (TOXLINE Special).