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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Global Health Portal at Ebling Library

The Global Health Portal at Ebling Library is now up and running. Thanks to Erika Sevetson for all of her hard work.

The portal can be found at http://ebling.library.wisc.edu/portals/globalhealth/index.cfm (just add globalhealth to the end of the normal Ebling url), or can also be accessed through the Ebling Library Home page by clicking on More Portals (found on the right hand side of the screen) and click on Global Health under Subject-Based Portals.

This is a great resource for students! You will have access to many different on-line databases as well as tools to help manage citations. Take advantage of this exceptional new resource.

Attached is a guide that details all of the useful tools and links in the Global Health Portal.

Please direct any questions, comments, and suggestions concerning the Global Health Portal to Erika Sevetson (esevetson@library.wisc.edu).

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Basic Background Databases

• Country Watch
 Access via E-Resources Gateway
 A combination of textual and statistical sources on more than 190 countries. Includes country reviews, which provides historical, political, economic, investment, social, and environmental overview of each country. Also included is a DataWatch portion, which allows you to display, cross-tabulate and download numeric data about the countries.
• World Factbook
 Access via E-Resources Gateway
 Contains overviews of each country in the world, including brief data on geography, people, government, economy, membership in international organizations, communications, and defense forces. Maps and flags may be viewed in various formats.
• Britannica Online
 Access via E-Resources Gateway
• Wikipedia
 http://en.wikipedia.org

News Sources

• Global NewsBank
 Access via E-Resources Gateway
 Covers Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Pacific Rim, Central and South America and the Middle East, it is ideal for researching a wide variety of international developments related to politics, economics, science & technology, culture and business. The full-text news articles are from more than 1,500 international sources, including translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, periodicals and government documents.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
 Access via E-Resources Gateway or Ebling Library
 Includes international and U.S. newspapers, ethnic and regional news sources, magazines, wire services, newsletters, trade journals, company and industry analyst reports, and broadcast transcripts. Advertisements, obituaries, graphics, and non-local (syndicated) features are typically not included.

Literature Databases

• PubMed
 Access via E-Resources Gateway or Ebling Library
 Covers 4,500 journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, health care systems, and pre-clinical sciences.
• Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)
 Access via E-Resources Gateway
 Indexes more than 900 journals; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations; and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world. Its subject matter covers public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.




• Global Health Library (WHO)
 http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/php/index.php
 Includes searches in Regional Indexes:
• AFRO – from the Regional Office for Africa. AFRO indexes WHO/AFRO technical documents, monographs and some African medical articles.
• EMRO – from the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
• LILACS – from the Regional Office for Latin American and Caribbean
• PAHO – from the Pan American Health Organization
• WPRO – from the Regional Office for the Western Pacific
• WHOLIS (described below)
• Google Scholar
 http://scholar.google.com/
 Enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
• Web of Knowledge
 Access via E-Resources Gateway or Ebling Library
 A combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It indexes more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data and author abstracts. Every item of significance is listed: articles, reviews, letters, notes, corrections, and editorials. In addition to access by author, title, and institution, it is also possible to search by cited authors and to find articles sharing one or more cited reference. It is possible to search the three databases independently or in any combination.

Statistics and Other

• WHOLIS Library Database
 http://dosei.who.int/
 Full text of WHO publications and documents is available free from WHOLIS, the WHO Library web database. WHOLIS indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985.
• WHOIS
 http://www.who.int/whosis/en/
 WHO’s Statistical Information System
• STATSnetBASE: Statistical Sciences Online
 Access via E-Resources Gateway
 A collection of more than 120 online reference books on statistics and probability published by CRC Press.
Citation Management – see Ebling Research Help: Citation Management

• RefWorks
• EndNote
• Zotero

February 27, 2008 at 4:18 PM

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