Databases for Public Health Research

Find articles and reports on various public health topics.

• Cochrane Open AccessExternal
  Collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
• Digital Commons NetworkExternal
  Free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide, including peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)External
  Community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
• GRAFTExternal
  Search across 4,640 university repositories for full text articles.
• JURNExternal
  Search engine dedicated to finding free academic articles, chapters, and theses.
• News from JURN.orgExternal
  The ‘news’ page on the Jurn website (the search tool for open access content) has a Guide to Academic Search that lists various free search engines and tools focused on open access research articles.
• OpenDOARExternal
  Directory of open access repositories searchable by host country.
• PLOSExternal
  Non-profit Open Access publisher with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.
• PubMedExternal
  U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health maintain this database of biomedical and life science articles.
• Regional Medical Libraries via NNLMExternal
  Library that provides equal access to biomedical information. The Program is coordinated by the National Library of Medicine and carried out through a nationwide network of health science libraries and information centers. Users may need an institutional affiliation to access some of the resources.
• Wellcome CollectionExternal
  Free medical history library that is useful for archival research.
• World Health OrganizationExternal
  Online access to research published by WHO on a broad range of health topics.