Literature Databases:

These databases should be accessed through the UNCG library webpage and linking to Subject Guides, then Public Health Education.

1. CINAHL - You can use limits to narrow search but be careful to run a broad search rather than searching something specific. "Indexes about 1,200 nursing and allied health journals; full text available for about 300 titles. Covers all aspects of nursing and nursing education, allied health, biomedical, consumer health, and patient education. Also indexes books and book chapters, dissertations, standards of practice, and reviews of educational software packages."

2. ERIC -"The most complete indexing database for education and related topics. Indexes more than 750 journals, as well as research and technical reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations, and books. How to find the full text of items listed in the ERIC database. Covers adult, career, and vocational education information, technology assessment and evaluation, language and linguistics, counseling, special education, reading and communication, educational management, teacher and teacher education, elementary and early childhood education, urban education, higher education, and more. Includes web links to the full text of selected ERIC Documents (ED numbers)."

3. Pubmed - "The leading source for articles from medical and health-related journals. Search Medline and OLDMEDLINE citations on the Entrez platform. Subject coverage includes biology, microbiology, environmental health, nutrition, public health, anatomy, physiology, genetics, sports medicine, and hospital administration, plus much more. Citations are compiled by the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library. Medline Journal Browser (covers abbreviations). Other Medline databases to which the Library has access: Medline on the Science Direct platform, Medline Plus (Consumer Health Information)."

4. Sociological Abstracts - "Guide to journal articles, books, and more in sociology, social psychology, social work, community development. Provides abstracts of journal articles from over 2500 journals, conference papers, dissertations, book reviews, and books. Covers all aspects of sociology, including community development, culture and social structure, demography, human biology, environmental interactions, family and social welfare, health and medicine, law, religion, science, social psychology, group interactions, welfare services, and women's studies. Also indexes Social Planning/Policy and Development Abstracts, which focuses on solutions to social problems."

5. Social Work Abstracts - "Guide to social work and related literature (child and family welfare, sociology, crime and delinquency, and community health). Provides citations to more than 450 social work, human services, and related journals. Covers theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, legislation, community organization, and social problems such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, and substance abuse. Also useful for gerontology, public health, criminology, psychology, and education."

6. PsychInfo - "Provides citations and abstracts for psychology and the psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, communication, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Covers journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, and dissertations. Covers more than 1,300 periodicals, almost all of them peer-reviewed, written in over 25 languages, as well as worldwide English-language books published from 1987 to the present."

7. AIDsearch - This site provides citations to published research, a dictionary, and data on clinical trials. "AIDSearch is a combination of three databases (Medline AIDS/HIV, AIDSDrugs, and AIDSTrials) from the National Library of Medicine that provide information about AIDS and related topics. Medline AIDS/HIV is a subset of Medline providing citations from journal articles, government reports, letters, technical reports, meeting abstracts/papers, monographs, special publications, theses, books and audiovisuals covering research, clinical aspects and health policy issues related to AIDS. AIDSDrugs is a dictionary of chemical and biological agents currently being evaluated in the AIDS clinical trials covered in AIDSTrials. AIDSTrials includes information about the clinical trials of substances being tested for use against AIDS, HIV infection, and AIDS-related opportunistic diseases."

8. National Center for Cultural Competence database - This site has great search options, but it doesn't always have the content to match. "The National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) maintains a database of a wide range of resources on cultural and linguistic competence (e.g. demographic information, policies, practices, articles, books, research initiatives and findings, curricula, multimedia materials and Web sites, etc.). The NCCC uses specific review criteria for the inclusion of these resources. As part of the NCCC's web-based technical assistance, a selected searchable bibliography of these resources is made available online. The database is not an exhaustive listing. It is updated on a regular basis. Each database entry includes information on the type of resource, category, population(s) addressed, title, author and description. Descriptions are written by NCCC faculty and staff. When available, source and contact information are provided. Most of the resources are copyrighted; it is the responsibility of each user to acknowledge and gain permission for use."

9. The Combined Health Information Database (CHID) - good guide to health promotion materials if you keep your search broad. "CHID is a bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources. CHID lists a wealth of health promotion and education materials and program descriptions that are not indexed elsewhere. New records are added quarterly and current listings are checked regularly to help ensure that entries are up to date and still available from their original sources. Some older records are retained for archival purposes. CHID is updated four times a year. The updated database is available at the end of these months: January, April, July, and October."

10. Graylit - This database is hard to get a document on a specific topic under male health. The information is very technically based. "The GrayLIT Network makes the gray literature of U.S. Federal Agencies easily accessible over the Internet. It taps into the search engines of distributed gray literature collections, enabling the user to find information without first having to know the sponsoring agency. The GrayLIT Network is the world's most comprehensive portal to Federal gray literature. By offering a mode of communication for this hard-to-find class of literature, the GrayLIT Network enables convenient access by the American public to government information."