Academic Resources: Research Tools
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Methods, Journals, Databases, and Organizations
Research Methods
- general resources and methods (qualitative, quantitative, epidemiological & demographic)
- grant writing tips
IRB (Instituationl Review Board)
Academic Resouces: Journals
- anthropology & medical anthropology
- medical humanities
- health & social science
- public health/international health
- medicine & health newsletters
- other journals and print media of interest
- BioMed Central
The research articles in all journals published by BioMed Central are 'Open Access'. They are immediately and permanently available online without charge. A number of journals require an institutional or a personal subscription to view other content, such as reviews or paper reports. Free trial subscriptions to these journals are available. - LinkOut:
Journals in PubMed
Journals in PubMed for which links to the full text have been provided are listed, sorted by title (journal abbreviation), provider name (provider abbreviation) and years of full text availability. A list sorted by journal provider is also available. - List of Epidemiology Journals from Hongyu Zhao, Departments of Epidemiology and Public Health & Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine
- INCLEN/INDIACLEN: free database of medical journals
visit lists of social science journals at:
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University of California, San Diego
- World Wide Web Virtual Library
- visit MarriottMD.com for a list of medical literature on the internet
free access to journals by those in developing countries
Academic Resouces: Databases
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social sciences
- SMA film database
- ADAM
a database for Anthropology (en français)
- data
sources from the Data Library Service, University
of Toronto -- includes US and international data
- Data Service Resources - RGSS (from Resource Guide to Social Sciences)
- Oxford
Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD)
OxLAD is a free, downloadable, on-line resource for reliable, consistent, and comparable economic and social data series from 1900-2000 for 20 countries in Latin America. - Recent Dissertations in the Medical Humanities, compiled by Jonathon Erlen, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh
- Social
Science Data Archives
- Social
Science Data Collection, University of California,
San Diego
- SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway
- Statistical
Resources on the Web, University of Michigan
Documents Center
(check out the experimental statistics database) - UC
Data -- InterUniversity Consortium for Political
and Social Research: Social Science Data and Resources
for Researchers
- other resources -- from UC Data
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national health
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international health
- AiDA: Accessible Information on Development Activities from the Development Gateway
- The Communication Initiative: Baseline -- summaries of international development trend data
- data sources -- from the Global Reproductive Health Forum
- Development Gateway -- A directory of over 500,000 activities of major bilateral organizations, multilateral development banks and UN agencies. Over 100,000 are ongoing and planned, residing in the live database.
- Global Health & Global Health Archive from CABI Publishing
- Global Health Atlas, an Interactive World Map
- Individual data archives, data libraries and related institutions -- sorted by country, University of Toronto
- KU-UC database - knowledge utilization, innovation & smart practices, and policy & management of health services
- Leeds Health Education Database
- National
Population Policies 2003 -- United Nations
Population Division
Department of Economic and Social Affairs - PAHO
Health Situation in the Americas Basic Indicators
PAHO Core Health Data Initiative - Basic Country Health Profiles for the Americas
Academic Resources: In other Languages
Academic Resouces: Organizations
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professional
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government
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non-government