Research Guides: Women's Studies 402: Gender and Health Policy: Scholarly Research on Health Policy

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Gender Studies Database (EBSCO)
Broad coverage of academic literature on the study of sexuality and gender. Particularly useful for finding scholarship that incorporates gender-aware research methods.

Gender Studies Database™ combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Gender Studies Database covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Web are available. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources. This source may be searched together with the LGBT Life database.

Women's Studies International
Broad coverage of feminist and women's studies research in a range of academic disciplines. Particularly useful for finding scholarship that incorporates gender-aware research methods.

Sociological Abstracts
Provides access to scholarly materials in sociology and related disciplines.
PubMed @ U-M (with MGet It links)
Access to biomedical, health sciences, and life sciences research.

This version has links to full text available to U-M affiliates.
PsycINFO
Most important resource for finding scholarly work in psychology and related fields.
Web of Science
Broad coverage of academic literature in the sciences and social sciences.

Seven citation indexes include: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI); Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S); Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (CPCI-SSH); Book Citation Index - Science (BKCI-S); Book Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH)

Health Policy Reference Center
a comprehensive full-text database designed to support the creation, implementation, or study of health policy and the health care system. This collection offers full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas integral to health policy, including: access, administration, economics, planning, reform, insurance, law, research, ethics, public health, and social medicine. The database features coverage of more than 300 full-text titles and indexing for more than 375 publications. Searchable cited references are also provided. UM user only.
Global Health
Provides information on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, and much more. This database contains more than 1.2 million records dating back to 1973. Also included is the Global Health Archive, consisting of 800,000 records from 1910-1973.UM users only.

Political Science Complete
PSC provides indexing and abstracts for 2900 journals,and full-text articles for 500 top-ranked scholarly journals. Also includes reference works and professional conference papers. Its coverage consists of topics such as law and legislation, comparative politics, political theory, international relations, humanitarian issues, and non-governmental organizations.

Public Affairs Index
It is a bibliographic database covers all aspects of national and global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international commerce and conflict. PAI provides excellent coverage of the literature from 1970 to present. In addition, it includes selective indexing for articles published between 1934 and 1969.

PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service
Over 450,000 journal articles, books, and other documents covering public affairs worldwide. Coverage begins in 1972. Printed version collection is in the Graduate Library stacks as Z 7163 .P98. UM users only.
JSTOR
Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and science.
Project MUSE
Full-text access to over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses (Duke, Hawaii, Indiana, MIT, Penn State, etc.).