Research Guides: Health Policy, Management & Evaluation (HPME): Databases

Health Sciences

MEDLINE (OVID)
Journal citations from over 4,000 medical journals from 1966 on.

HealthSTAR (Ovid)
Policy, management and public health. Some content duplicated in Medline.

EMBASE
Biomedicine, rehab and pharmacology from 3800 international high quality journals; 1200 journals not in MEDLINE/PubMed ; 75% English.
CINAHL Plus (Ebsco)
(Cumulative index to nursing and allied health) Over 500 journals, books, dissertations and some conference proceedings. Also good for rehab.

Cochrane Library
Include effectiveness review abstracts, health technology assessment, NHS economic evaluation, controlled trials and methodology registers. Also available as part of Ovid’s EBM reviews
APA PsycInfo (Ovid)
Contains citation information and abstracts from journals in psychology and mental health. The Ovid platform is appropriate for systematic and scoping reviews as well as other advanced searches.

Policy

Overton
The world's largest policy database, indexing over 12 million policy documents from around the world and making them full-text searchable.

PAIS Index
(aka Public Affairs Information Service)

International research in public affairs, public and social policies, and international relations. Provides access to journal articles, books, government documents, research and conference reports, and more.
PolicyFile (US)
US Public Policy research.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Citation information and abstracts for international research, including journals, books, book chapters, reviews, and dissertations.

Business and Current Events

ABI/INFORM Global
1000 worldwide business and economics periodicals, including many “health industry” journals; includes some full-text e-journals.
Business Source Premier
Scholarly business journals, many in full-text
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database
Canadian Business and Current Affairs: many newspaper articles; some full-text.
CPI.Q: Canadian Periodicals
Canadian periodical index: Simple keyword searching.

Sage Business Cases
Provides global peer-reviewed business case studies. Topics include healthcare management, as well as entrepreneurship, accounting, and leadership.
Cases describe fictitious or real-life scenarios faced by sectors and industries, managers and companies; includes supplementary instructional resources like discussion questions, learning outcomes, and teaching notes.

Social Sciences

Sociological Abstracts

Citations and abstracts of scholarly journals, dissertations, books, and conference papers in the social and behavioural sciences.
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)
Citation information including abstracts covering social science and health related subjects.

Computer Science

ACM Digital Library
Full text of all Assoc. for Computing Machinery articles

Computer and Information System Abstracts
International Computer theory, human-computer interaction, programming.
Proquest Computing
Wide range of computing journals in full text.

Electronics & Communications Abstracts
Telecommunications, photonics, circuits.
INSPEC
Covering the fields of physics, electronics, computing, control engineering and information technology.

Dissertation Indexes

Dissertations & Theses Global Closed Collection (1743-2023)
Comprehensive worldwide collection of dissertations and theses from 1743-2023
Theses Canada
Central access point for Canadian Theses.

Multi-Disciplinary

Scopus
A major multidisciplinary database for the social sciences, life sciences, health sciences, physical sciences, and arts and humanities.

Web of Science: Core Collection
Covers both the general and social sciences. Includes some health relevant information.
Scholars Portal Books
Almost 70,000 commercial and over 280,000 open access titles.

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AgeLine
Covers topics relating to the over-50 population and issues related to aging.
Canadian Research Index
Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT)

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