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Article Databases & Online Journals

Article and Ongoing Project Databases
Online Journals and Journal Finders

Article and Ongoing Project Databases

CUFTS Journal Search
CUFTS Journal Search allows you to quickly find journal titles in about 250 different electronic collections. Use it when you need to know if a journal is available in full-text in ANY online database. From the same university that produced JAKE, which is now replaced by CUFTS.

Database of promoting health effectiveness reviews (DoPHER)
DoPHER is unique in its focused coverage of systematic and non-systematic reviews of effectiveness in health promotion and public health worldwide. This register currently contains details of over 2,500 reviews of health promotion and public health effectiveness.

GrantSource Library Research Abstracts Database
From UNC-University of North Carolina
From the web site: "The GrantSource Library collects grant abstracts submitted to the Office of Research Services by current UNC-CH researchers. Researchers submit these abstracts when they prepare a proposal for external funding, so not all research projects on campus are represented here. The abstracts are scanned and placed into a database, which can be searched below. Search by subject keyword, department name, or researcher name."

HSRProj (Health Services Research Projects in Progress)
HSRProj contains descriptions of research in progress funded by federal and private grants and contracts for use by policy makers, managers, clinicians, and other decision makers. It provides access to information about health services research in progress before results are available in a published form. Records cover both grants and contracts awarded by major public and private funding agencies and foundations. Users can retrieve names of performing and sponsoring agencies, names and addresses of the principal investigator, beginning and ending years of the project, information about study design and methodology including demographic characteristics of the study group, number of subjects in the study population, population base of the study sample, and source of the project data. Records are indexed with NLM's (National Library of Medicine) Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and, when available, NIH's (National Institutes of Health) CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) keywords. Also, project descriptions are included whenever possible. HSRProj is a joint effort of AcademyHealth and the Cecil G. Sheps Center at the University of North Carolina with funding from the NLM.

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Databases
This web site provides access to information on the occurrence of cancer world-wide held and managed by the Cancer Information Section of IARC.

The Leapfrog Group Incentive and Reward Compendium
The Leapfrog Group has developed a free compendium of incentive and reward (also called 'pay for performance') programs aimed at improving the quality and efficiency of health care providers. The Compendium documents and categorizes financial programs, such as those that reward providers with quality bonuses, and non-financial programs, such as those that reward providers with public recognition. Most of these programs are initiated by health plans, purchasers and purchasing coalitions to target hospitals, physicians, health plans and consumers. You can search and sort programs by location and program target as well as by keyword.

Maine Rural Health Research Center Publications
From the Muskie School of Public Service
Includes research and policy briefs, rural health news, and working papers.

MedlinePlus
Consumer health information

National Rural Health Services Research Database
Lists rural health services research projects currently in progress in the United States and Canada.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Journal Browser
National Library of Medicine (NLM) site for finding basic journal title information. Enter either journal abbreviation, journal full title, ISSN, NLM ID, or ISO abbreviation to search all Entrez databases (e.g., PubMed, etc).

National Library of Medicine (NLM) Gateway
The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches Medline/PubMed, OldMedline, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MedlinePlus and DIRLINE." Of particular note is HSRProj (Health Services Research Projects in Progress), a database of current and recent HSR projects, maintained by library staff at the Sheps Center.

NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORTER)
A replacement resouce for CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects). NIH-funded research in progress. The information found in RePORTER is drawn from several extant databases--eRA databases, Medline, PubMed Central, the NIH Intramural Database, and iEdison--using newly-formed linkages among these disparate data sources. The comprehensiveness of these databases varies, as does the quality of the linkages formed among them.

OSTMED
Osteopathic literature database
This database contains journal and book citations from the 1800s through 2003. New citations are no longer being added to this database.

PubMed
PubMed provides access to bibliographic information, which is drawn primarily from Medline as well as additional life science journals." PubMed also searches Pre-Medline and HealthSTAR (a great HSR resource). There is a PubMed Tutorial available.

SRCMethodsLibrary
A systematic review methods library of more than 2000 citations courtesy of the AHRQ Effective Health Care Program. Citations may be downloaded to bibliographic management software.

THOMAS
Source of federal legislative information.

UNC "E-Research Tools" (Libraries Article Databases Finder)

Online Journals and Journal Finders

The Free Medical Journals Site (not UNC)

Maine Rural Health Research Center Publications
From the Muskie School of Public Service
Includes research and policy briefs, rural health news, and working papers.

Mental Health Related Journals at UNC
Compiled by Alan Ellis

NC LIVE: Search Full Text Publication Titles
Search for words that appear in the title of a particular magazine, newspaper, or academic journal to see if NC LIVE has full-text coverage of that title. If using off-campus, contact your local NC public library for a password.

PubMed
In addition to bibliographic information, PubMed also provides full-text access to many journal titles through PubMed Central, the NIH's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, or through links to UNC E-Journals.

UNC-CH E-Journal Finder