The databases below include resources that could be helpful for the topics shared on Tuesday, October 29, 2024. The journals tab provides a selection of peer-reviewed journals to help kick-start your research.
October 29
- APA PsycArticles (EBSCOhost)
APA PsycArticles includes full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology with articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint - the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
- CINAHL with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
A comprehensive source of nursing & allied health journals, providing full-text for more than 770 journals indexed.
- Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more on contemporary topics. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Opposing Viewpoints is cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Global Issues.
- Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals providing researchers, allied health professionals, nurses and medical educators with access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also provides indexing, abstracts and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer-reviewed. It also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
- JSTOR
A multidisciplinary digital library that includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR; spanning more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Access also includes more than two million primary source documents.
And, with the incorporation of Artstor's collections, JSTOR is now home to more than two million images.
- Legal Collection (EBSCOhost)
This database contains full-text for more than 250 of the world's scholarly law journals. It is a source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world.
- PubMedPubMed® 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.
- Springer Nature Link
This is an integrated collection of books, journals, and other materials from across the Springer Nature platform including Nature Portfolio, Springer, BMC, Palgrave, Discover, and Apress. Disciplines represented include the sciences, business, law, history, literature, philosophy, political science, social sciences, and statistics.
- International Journal for Equity in Health"International Journal for Equity in Health presents evidence relevant to the search for, and attainment of, equity in health across and within countries. International Journal for Equity in Health publishes research which improves the understanding of issues that influence the distribution of health and healthcare within populations. This includes the discussion of political, policy-related, economic, social and health systems- and services-related influences, particularly with regard to identifying and understanding the systematic differences or the lived experiences of one or more aspects of health in population groups defined demographically, geographically, or socially." - Provided by the Publisher
- JMIR Pediatrics and ParentingJMIR Pediatrics and Parenting (JPP, ISSN: ISSN 2561-6722, Impact Factor: 2.1) is an open access journal with a unique focus on technologies, medical devices, apps, engineering, informatics applications for patient/parent education in pediatrics, training/counselling and behavioral interventions, preventative interventions and clinical care for children and adolescent populations or child-parent dyads.
- Journal of Ageing and LongevityJournal of Ageing and Longevity (JAL ISSN 2673-9259) is a unique multidisciplinary, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal that seeks to unite research on ageing, longevity and gerontology. This journal aims to take a comprehensive and integrative approach to understanding the biological, psychological, clinical, social and environmental factors affecting successful and healthy ageing.
- Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health"The Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health is an international forum for the publication of peer-reviewed original research pertaining to immigrant health. The contributors are expert in diverse fields including public health, epidemiology, medicine and nursing, anthropology, sociology, population research, immigration law, and ethics. The journal also publishes review articles, short communications, letters to the editor, and notes from the field." - Provided by the Publisher
- Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities"Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities reports on the scholarly progress of work to understand, address, and ultimately eliminate health disparities based on race and ethnicity. Efforts to explore underlying causes of health disparities and to describe interventions that have been undertaken to address racial and ethnic health disparities are featured." - Provided by Publisher
- Mental Health ScienceMental Health Science aims to support the global multidisciplinary mental health research community and the establishment of mental health science as a superdiscipline. It will achieve this through the dissemination of evidence-based interdisciplinary research, and by providing a publishing outlet for a worldwide community of researchers, clinicians, medical scientists, social scientists, life scientists and policy-makers in addressing this growing, global issue.
- Women’s Health"Women’s Health delivers the highest quality peer-reviewed, open access, original research articles, reviews, and scholarly comment on pioneering efforts and innovative research from all disciplines related to women’s health globally." - Provided by the Publisher
Black Women and Public Health by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781438487335Publication Date: 2022"Black Women and Public Health creates an urgently needed interdisciplinary dialogue about issues of race, gender, and health. An enduring history of racism, sexism, and dehumanization of Black women's bodies has largely rendered the health needs of the Black community inaudible and invisible. Grounded in the lived experiences and expertise of Black women, this collection bridges gaps between researchers, practitioners, educators, and advocates. Black women's public health work is a regenerative practice--one that looks backward, inward, and forward to improve the quality of life for Black communities in the United States and beyond. The three dozen authors in this volume offer analysis, critique, and recommendations for overcoming longstanding and contemporary challenges to equity in public health practices." - Provided by the Publisher
The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781474450980Publication Date: 2022By emphasising the plurality of health experiences, and balancing national and transnational perspectives with the lived realities of diverse communities, this groundbreaking collection expands far beyond biomedical conceptions of health. Together, the contributors take a multi-layered view of the politics of US healthcare by examining it from historical, cultural, medical, sociological, legal, ethical and environmental perspectives.
Enforcing Freedom by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780231547093Publication Date: 2019Kerwin Kaye offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and mandatory treatment centers as a system of coercion, demonstrating how the state uses notions of rehabilitation as a means of social regulation. Enforcing Freedom presents a critical perspective on the punitive side of criminal-justice reform and points toward alternative paths forward.How organizations can take a lead in protecting reproductive rights : taking a proactive approach to offering reproductive health care benefits for employees allows companies to create inclusive environments for a diverse workforce by
Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2022The U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in late June is affecting some employees' decisions about where they want to live and work. As some states pass laws to ban or restrict access to abortion services, employers' responses may affect their ability to attract and retain top talent. The authors offer five actions organizational leaders can take to support and protect employees' reproductive freedom in light of some states' changing reproductive health care policies.
