Global Health: Home
About This Guide
The Global Health guide provides resources and services to support the global health research of UNC Chapel Hill faculty and students working on campus and in the field. The guide also addresses the research needs of non-UNC-CH users with links to free or low-cost resources.
Key Databases
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EmbaseHighly versatile, multipurpose and up-to-date biomedical database covering the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day. Supports drug discovery & development, pharmacovigilance, medical device development and post-market surveillance, and evidence-based medicine.
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Global HealthScholarly research on global public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition and many others.
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Google ScholarEnables 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.
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PubMedDatabase of biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine covering journal articles about medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, biology and public health from 1950 to the present; multiple mobile apps available, provides access to MEDLINE, etc. Includes links to full text of UNC-CH's electronic journal subscriptions.
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Web of Science (ISI)Opens to search the Core Collection which includes Science; Social Sciences; Arts & Humanities; Conference Proceedings; Book; and Emerging Sources Citation Indexes; Current Chemical Reactions; Index Chemicus. Provides access to BIOSIS, Current Contents Connect, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, KCI Korean Citations Index, Russian Citation Index, SciELO, and Zoological Record. An All Databases search option is available.
Web of Science Training Materials
Developing Country / Low-Middle Income Searches
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Developing / Low-Middle Income Countries Searches (2019 update, MS Word format)Searches formatted for PubMed, Embase, Web of Science or Scopus. MS Word document.
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Developing / Low-Middle Income Countries Searches (2019 update, Rich Text Format)Searches formatted for PubMed, Embase, Web of Science or Scopus. RTF document.
Global Health Offices at UNC Chapel Hill
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