- Provide essential information for new and current MPH students.
- Teach and show MPH students how to access essential resources through the Calder Library.
This guide is intended for MPH students at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. It has information about both on-campus and online resources available to MPH students.
Layal Hneiny
- Clinical Research Librarian
- layal.hneiny@miami.edu
- (305) 243-8755
John Usseglio
- Education and Outreach Librarian
- jgu11@med.miami.edu
- (305) 243-5530
- Email: reference@miami.edu
- Phone: 305-243-6648
- Ask a Librarian
Once on the Ebooks page, you can browse by searching via keyword (1), sorting alphabetically by title (2), or sorting by subject (3).
You can also browse Journals from the Start Your Research section on the Calder Library website.
Once on the Journals page, you can browse by searching for a specific title or International Standard Serial Number (1) or sort by category (2).
Not able to find an Ebook or Journal using the browsing methods explained above? Or are you interested in searching for a specific research article? Try using the uSearch discovery system on the top right of the Calder Library website.
When using the uSearch discovery system, you can choose where you would like to search from the dropdown menu. You can search Everything, which includes articles, books, films, e-resources, and all types of materials. Alternatively, you could search Electronic Resources, which includes e-resource items only. Lastly, you could search the Library Catalog, which includes materials in the Calder Library's physical collections (i.e., books located on one of the shelves here at the Calder Library).
Once you run a search in the uSearch discovery system, there are multiple ways to sort your results. There are options underneath the search bar (1) as well as on the left side of the screen (2). You can access each item via the links at the bottom of the record (3). Make sure to sign in using your Cane ID to ensure full access to electronic and physical materials through the University of Miami Libraries (4).
For more information on how to conduct searches using uSearch, please see our uSearch Guide.
To access Databases from the Calder Library website, scroll down on the home page until you see the Popular Resources section.
Alternatively, or to see the complete list of databases available through the Calder Library, you can look for the Start Your Research section at the top of the home page. Click on the Databases link.
If you clicked on the Databases link from the Start Your Research section, you will be brought to the following page. You can search for databases by name (1), browse alphabetically (2), sort by format or subject (3), or look only for those that are freely available (4). Where you are a UM affiliate, all of the databases will be available to you through the Calder Library.
Database List By Public Health Sciences as a Subject
Browse through Calder Library- All Databases
A-Z Calder Library Databases
- Email: reference@miami.edu
- Phone: 305-243-6648
- Ask a Librarian
CINAHL Ultimate is the definitive full-text database for nursing and allied health research. It offers full-text access to a substantial portion of the most frequently cited journals in the CINAHL index, surpassing other databases. Providing 1,837 active full-text journals valued at $478,475.88, this database covers over 50 nursing specialties. Additionally, it features full-text quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, nursing instructional videos, and more.
Includes: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment Database and NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
Embase, from Elsevier Life Sciences Solutions, provides extensive coverage of international biomedical journals and conferences and is a key resource for generating systematic reviews, making informed decisions in evidence-based medicine, and for post-market surveillance of drugs and medical devices.
The APA's database of more than 1 million citations to the psychology literature, published since 1967. Access available within UM I.P. domain.
Access to MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE, sets of related articles for each cited article, DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data, and links to publisher sites.
The largest database of scientific, technical, medical and social science literature back to 1966, including cited references.
Access to Web of Science, 1945 to the present, Conference Proceedings, MEDLINE, ISI Journal Citation Reports, Essential Science Indicators, and Zoological Record, 1978 to the present by all UM users.
The Environmental Science Collection provides the most complete collection of resources available to support this multi-disciplinary field. The collection combines specialist topic resources from engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology, and biology.
Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas including social welfare, social policy and community development.
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Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts research literature published worldwide in journals and other serial publications. Social Planning/Policy Development (SOPODA) is included as a subfile, providing additional literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, housing, the environment and other social issues.
Wilson Social Sciences Full Text indexes a wide range of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994; full-text coverage begins in January 1995.
SHELDUS is a county-level hazard data set for the U.S. and covers natural hazards such thunderstorms, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornados as well as perils such as flash floods, heavy rainfall, etc. The database contains information on the date of an event, affected location (county and state) and the direct losses caused by the event (property and crop losses, injuries, and fatalities) from 1960 to present.
Note: Account must be created using a UM email address for individual login access.
Social Explorer provides quick and easy access to current and historical census data and demographic information. The easy-to-use web interface lets users create maps and reports to illustrate, analyze, and understand demography and social change. In addition to its comprehensive data resources, Social Explorer offers features and tools to meet the needs of demography experts and novices alike.
SSRN is an interdisciplinary Open Access database offering abstracts and full articles at various stages of publication, including Preprint, In Review, and completed Peer Review. Create a free account to share your own work, or just browse and download material.
Keywords are automatically included with citations in a database. They are provided by authors immediately upon article submission, help you find the latest literature, and can be matched to all parts of a citation, such as the article title and abstract. However, you must know the keywords the authors used to match them in your search strategy.
Boolean operators (AND, OR, and NOT) are used to combine your search terms.
- AND: Use between different terms. Combining search terms with AND will make the search more targeted.
- OR: Use between similar terms. Combining search terms with OR will expand the search.
- NOT: Use NOT to exclude a term in a search strategy.
Phrase searching (with " ") encloses a fixed series of words within quotation marks to search for those words together and in that order.
Truncation is the use of an asterisk (*) to search for different word endings.
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Subject headings have different names depending on the database. You can think of "subject heading" as the generic name and the database's name for its own subject headings as the brand name.
In the databases we will be using, subject headings are referred to as:
- PubMed: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Terms
- Embase: Emtree Terms
- CINAHL: CINAHL (Subject) Headings
Topic Searching in PubMed: Using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) Training Course
National Library of Medicine
PubMed PICO Tool
National Library of Medicine (NIH)
Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice
Training Course
National Library of Medicine (NIH)
What are the differences between Emtree and MeSH?
Elsevier
Embase Quick User Guide (PDF)
Elsevier
Where can I find video tutorials on Embase?
Elsevier
About Emtree
Elsevier
CINAHL: Basic Searching Tutorial (3:20)
EBSCOhost
CINAHL Databases - Advanced Searching Tutorial (3:53)
EBSCOhost
Keywords are automatically included with citations in a database. They are provided by authors immediately upon article submission, help you find the latest literature, and can be matched to all parts of a citation, such as the article title and abstract. However, you must know the keywords the authors used to match them in your search strategy.
Boolean operators (AND, OR, and NOT) are used to combine your search terms.
- AND: Use between different terms. Combining search terms with AND will make the search more targeted.
- OR: Use between similar terms. Combining search terms with OR will expand the search.
- NOT: Use NOT to exclude a term in a search strategy.
Phrase searching (with " ") encloses a fixed series of words within quotation marks to search for those words together and in that order.
Truncation is the use of an asterisk (*) to search for different word endings.
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