Research Guides: Public Health: Databases / Journals

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Selected Public Health Journal Titles

Enter the following titles into Journal Finder to check availability and access to electronic versions.

American Journal of Public Health
Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health
Archives of Public Health
Army Public Health Weekly Update
BMC Public Health
Canadian Journal of Public Health
Critical Public Health
Frontiers in Public Health
International Journal of Collaborative Research on Internal Medicine & Public Health
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition, Public Health and Technology
International Journal of Public Health
Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine
Journal of Environmental and Public Health
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Journal of Public Health
Journal of Public Health Policy
Journal of Public Mental Health
Journal of Rural and Tropical Public Health
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
Open Public Health Journal
Public Health Law and Policy Journal
Public Health Research
Public Health Reviews

Nursing & Health Professions

Health and Medical

AHFS Consumer Medication Information This link opens in a new window
Offers patient medication information in English and Spanish, courtesy of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
CINAHL Plus This link opens in a new window
The CINAHL Plus collection provides full-text access to nursing and allied health journals. Use CINAHL to find evidence based literature, RCTs, clinical trials, systematic reviews, and more. To expand your resource pool within this platform, click on "Choose Databases" (above the top search field) and select "Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition" and "MEDLINE with Full Text".
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
A database of systematic reviews
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to biomedical journals, including the AHFS Consumer Medication Information
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full text access to journals in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences.
ProQuest Health Research Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Health Research Premium Collection serves a wide range of users with a broad collection of journals, evidence-based resources, and full-text dissertations, and includes the top ProQuest health and medical databases.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 28 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. If no full text links are provided, or if you are routed to a publisher site with a paywall, check an article's availability in the Rice Library's databases with the Journal Finder tool.
SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window
Access to full text sports and sports medicine journals. Limit of 8 simultaneous users.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource for health care professionals.

Psychology and Sociology

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Searches the following ProQuest databases: Health Research Premium Collection, ProQuest One Business, Literature Online, ProQuest Ebook Central, Periodicals Archive, Chicago Tribune Historical, New York Times Historical, Wall Street Journal (Recent)
ProQuest Health Research Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Health Research Premium Collection serves a wide range of users with a broad collection of journals, evidence-based resources, and full-text dissertations, and includes the top ProQuest health and medical databases.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO - an American Psychological Association (APA) resource - provides full text and abstracts of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in behavioral science and mental health. Expand your resource pool by selecting "Choose databases" above the top search field, checking the box next to the PsycARTICLES database, and selecting the OK button.
SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Access to full-text peer-reviewed journals in the field of sociology.

Business and Administration

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides bibliographic information and selected full text access to scholarly business publications and industry/market reports.
Health Business FullTEXT This link opens in a new window
This database provides full text coverage of administrative journals such as H&HN: Hospitals & Health Networks, Health Management Technology, Modern Healthcare and many more.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni provides access to news, business and legal sources — including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. This is a useful database for finding news, review and analysis, and original documentation of U.S. house resolutions, bills, and laws.