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HLTH 404: Global Studies of Social Inclusion, Community Participation & Mental Health

Health Studies

Using Databases

For information on how to effectively use a database, please go to Health Sciences Research: Database Searching. Here you will learn the difference between a basic and advanced search; how to identify key concepts or terms; and database limits.

Journal Articles

Scholarly journal articles are very important sources for research as they contain current research in a given field and often focus on a particular aspect of a topic. 

To locate articles on your topic, use Omni or an index or database such as the ones recommended in this guide. If you are looking for information on a very specific topic, or a topic that is subject specific, it is recommended that you search databases that specialize in that subject area for more thorough results. 

Because topics in HLTH 404 can be multi-faceted, your research may draw upon a wide variety of disciplines and resources.

Recommended Indexes and Databases

Global Health: Brings together the Public Health and Tropical Medicine database. 

iPortal: Indigenous Studies Portal: The iPortal is a database created, maintained and updated by the University Library, University of Saskatchewan. It links to full-text online resources, including articles, theses, e-books, book reviews, film recordings, and archival documents. These resources include both open access and those provided by commercial vendors.

MEDLINE (Ovid): Is a database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, allied health, and preclinical sciences. It contains more than 26 million references from over 6.500 worldwide journals.

Native Health Database: The Native Health Database is comprised of articles, reports, and other resources discussing health information as it relates to North American Indigenous people.

Nursing and Allied Health Source on ProQuestThis database covers nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine and consumer health publications.

PubMed: MEDLINE (via PubMed) is a database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, allied health and preclinical sciences.

APA PsycInfo: Provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. 

Sociological Abstracts: Indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Multidisciplinary databases index a great number of publications and allow you to search across the disciplines. They are a good resource to use when you begin your research.

Academic Search Complete: Finds articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, monographs and reports covering a broad spectrum of topics.

Google Scholar: Use to locate articles from a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles published on the "open" web.

Omni: Please refer to the Using Omni tab on this guide under Finding Articles.

Web of Science: Includes both scientific and social aspects on various topics.

Evaluating Journal Articles

Indexes and databases contain a variety of types of articles including popular (magazine) and academic, scholarly or peer-reviewed (journals). 

For more information, please refer to: Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals.