Research Guides: Public Health Administration: Find Journal Articles

Finding a Journal

To search for a specific journal, first go to libraries.usc.edu, click on Find, click on Journals, and search for journal by title.

Ask-A-Librarian
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Interlibrary Loan

Cochrane Library
Collection of databases aimed at gathering and summarizing health research.

Health Evidence
Free systematic reviews assessing the effectiveness of health interventions.

PolicyFile
Public policy research indexing and abstracting, as well as full text items.

PolicyFile includes information addressing virtually all aspects of public policy. Specific themes listed include: Arms Control, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Democratization, the Department of Defense, Economic Policy, Education Policy, the European Union, Global Economics and International Trade, Health Policy and Health Care Reform, Human Rights, Immigration, Intelligence, Latin America, Science and Technology Policy, State and Local Issues, Terrorism, and Urban Policy. The database can be browsed by primary contributor or thematically and all abstracts have been linked to Home Pages, electronic mail addresses and full text documents, where available.
ProQuest Family Health Database
This database includes journals and magazines covering an enormous range of health subjects, from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry.
PubMed@USC
PubMed provides access to millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. This version is customized for USC users to find the full-text of articles.
Social Work Abstracts
Abstract database of social work literature from 1977 to present. Topics include homelessness, child and family welfare, AIDs, aging, substance abuse, community organization, and more.

Scopus
Large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Includes bibliometrics tools to track, analyze and visualize research.