Research Guides: Cross-Disciplinary: Home

Best Sites

This guide is for resources that are good for many disciplines in health care. Most are free, open access or government resources. Feel free to suggest additions. (angela.spencer@slu.edu)

Databases

APA PsycINFO (1967 - present) - formerly PsycINFO
Search the index and abstracts in this database for the professional and academic literature of psychology and related disciplines. Content includes journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations in English. Find full text for search results using the Find It @ SLU button.... more.
Cochrane Library: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
2005-present. Search systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy...more.
HaPI: Health & Psychosocial Instruments
1916-present/Mainly 1985-present. Major database for locating information on many types of measurement instruments such as questionnaires, ratting scales, interview forms, tests, and more.
This database has 5 simultaneous users....more.
HealthStar/Ovid HealthStar (1999 - present)
Search for information about the business of health care for topics such as hospitals, patient outcomes evaluation, health policy, health insurance, licensure, accreditation, health services, health technology, health administration, and health research....more.
HTA Database
The international HTA database provides free access to bibliographic information about ongoing and published health technology assessments commissioned or undertaken by HTA organisations from around the world.
JoVE - Journal of Visual Experiments - Methods and Protocols
JoVE is the world's first and only peer-reviewed scientific video journal. Articles include text description and video demonstration of experiments. JoVE also publishes educational and instructional videos for use in the classroom and lab. Our subscription includes the following Research Titles: Biology, Genetics, Developmental Biology, Biochemistry, Neuroscience, and Immunology & Infection. In addition we subscribe to the following Education Titles: Advanced Biology Series, Basic Biology Series, Core Biology, and Lab Manual Biology.
JoVE - Journal of Visual Experiments - Methods and Protocols
JoVE is the world's first and only peer-reviewed scientific video journal. Articles include text description and video demonstration of experiments. JoVE also publishes educational and instructional videos for use in the classroom and lab. Our subscription includes the following Research Titles: Biology, Genetics, Developmental Biology, Biochemistry, Neuroscience, and Immunology & Infection. In addition we subscribe to the following Education Titles: Advanced Biology Series, Basic Biology Series, Core Biology, and Lab Manual Biology.
PubMed - New site
1809-present. PubMed is the National Center for Biotechnology Information's search service that provides access to references drawn primarily from MEDLINE and PreMEDLINE, as well as Publisher-Supplied citations, and books...more.
Scopus
Some 1788-present. Search one of the largest abstract and citation databases for scholarly materials on science, engineering, technology, and medicine along with some social sciences and humanities. Similar to Web of Science…..more.
Web of Science
1990-present. WOS consists of three databases: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Science Citation Index Expanded, all of which are citation indexes. Together these index thousands of scholarly research journals from hundreds of disciplines. Do a Cited Reference search or a Topic search....more.