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MPH 798ː Capstone Seminar (Spring 2018): Find Articles

Access to Databases

Off-campus access to the article databases requires you to enter your MyLIU Username and Password when prompted.

Note: Access to article databases is a privilege available only for currently registered students and currently employed faculty and staff.

Interlibrary Loan

If you come across a book, video or journal article you need for your research, and the Brooklyn Library does not provide it in print or electronic format, request it through our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service.

ILL is available both intra-LIU (that is, all LIU campus libraries) and beyond via ILLIAD, a network of academic and public libraries outside of LIU the Brooklyn Library is part of.

Choosing a Database

Article databases provide you with 24-7 access to magazine, journal and newspaper articles via the Internet. Recommended databases for Public Health include:

  • Points of View Reference Center includes guides to controversial topics to help you develop your topic and research plan. 
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library includes full text encyclopedias on almost every subject--it's like wikipedia for college students!
  • Academic Search Premiere  includes scholarly and popular articles about almost every subject.
  • Lexis Nexis Academic Universe includes full text access to newspapers, magazines, and television and radio transcripts.
  • MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
  • Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews Their mission is to promote evidence-informed health decision-making by producing high-quality, relevant, accessible systematic reviews and other synthesised research evidence.
  • PsycArticles from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology as well as specialized, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 122,000 articles from 60 journals - 49 published by the APA and its imprint, the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF) - and 11 from allied organizations.
  • Ask a librarian for the best database on your topic!

Article Formats

Depending on the database you are using, articles may be displayed in different formats:

  • Index: Includes only the article’s citation information (e.g. author, title, date, volume, etc.). Neither a summary, nor the full-text of the article are available.
  • Abstract: Includes the article’s citation information and a brief summary of the article's content. Abstracts do not include the full-text article.
  • Full-text: Includes an electronic copy of the actual article. Depending on the database, the article may be available in HTML format, PDF format (displays the article as it originally appeared in the magazine with graphics and pictures), or both.

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