Health Administration  

Discover! is a good first step in the research process.  Use it to locate articles and books on your topic.

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CQ Researcher - info
Provides in-depth explorations of current topics from a well-known Washington publisher, "Congressional Quarterly". For a given topic, look for:

• good articles
• a Chronology of relevant events for the topic
• lists of stakeholders and their web sites
• a pro and con feature
• bibliographies of further reading.

ProQuest Research Library: Health & Medicine  - info
Search journal articles, trade publications and consumer publications for topics in:

• Medical Science
• Nursing
• Allied Health
• Public Health
• Pharmacology

LexisNexis: Health & Medical Care - info
Povides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information from nearly 5,000 sources, most of them available in full text.  News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.
      Click the checkboxes to access:

• Medline Abstracts
• Medical Journals
• Law Review Healthcare Articles
• Healthcare Law Newsletters
• Healthcare in the News
• Medical & Health Blogs
  

BioMed Central - info   
Open-access, online, peer-reviewed BMC journals that encompasses all the major biological and medical disciplines. In addition, the medical journals publish Case Reports, Debates and Study Protocols, and the biology journals publish Methodology articles. Title list by subject.

Safetylit
Source for current and past scholarly research about all aspects of injury prevention and safety promotion. The database contains current and backfile articles from 8357 active scholarly journals and from the backfiles of 2936 "inactive" journals, including articles from over 5,000 journals that are not included in PubMed/Medline.

The following include articles and content on healthcare:

Academic Search Premier - info
Thousands of scholarly journals in all disciplines, many of them full text.

Annual Reviews - info
Comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 30 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.

Highwire Press
Over 1000 leading journals available from the journals' own sites. Includes articles published online ahead of print; plus all of Medline -- with links. Title list by subject.  

ProQuest Research Library - info
4,000 titles—nearly 2,800 in full text—from 1971 forward. A diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers. This multi-subject resource covers a core list of periodicals; plus 15 supplemental subject-specific modules.

Web of Science® -   info   

Web of Science is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the "hard" sciences and social sciences.

Includes:

• Science Citation Index™ Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) - info
  Find information from more than 6,650 journals across 150 disciplines in areas such as agricultural, biological, and environmental sciences, engineering, technology, applied science, medical and life sciences, and physical and chemical sciences.
  
  
• Social Sciences Citation Index ® (SSCI) - info  
  Find information from 2,474 of the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines in areas such as anthropology, sociology, urban studies, business and communication, criminology, penology, law, nursing, rehabilitation, and information and library sciences.
  

Specialized  topics relating to Healthcare:

Firearms Research Digest
A database of social science, criminology, law reviews, medical and public health research concerning firearms. With the new availability of gun violence data and research, one of the primary goals of the website is to help those in law enforcement, public health and government develop best practices and smarter approaches to curbing gun crime and violence.The site will eventually be expanded to include research from 1988 to the present.   It currently covers 2002-2009.

Health Systems Evidence

"Launched by McMaster University Health Forum on December 12, 2011, as "the world's most comprehensive, free access point for high-quality evidence" on health systems, this redeveloped version of the site created 2 years ago is relevant to policymakers, researchers, and healthcare providers. Continually updated syntheses of research studies that address health system governance and financial, economic, and care delivery strategies are accessible. Value-added summaries that indicate a quality rating and currency of the syntheses and the countries in which studies were conducted are also available.  Advanced search functionality and search tips, including video tutorial, are useful."
(page 3 of CyberSkeptics Guide to Internet Research, April 2012)

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