Health Sciences

Use this to build an efficient and effective strategy to find relevant literature:

Search strategy worksheet

Use this multi-disciplinary search tool to find books, articles, and more items from across the Library's collection of print and electronic resources.

• Good for getting started on a topic
• Few options for focused searching

Use these subject-specific databases to find scholarly literature specific to health topics

Health and biomedical databases

• Remember each health database contains unique content
• If you search just one database, you are missing relevant content
• Alternate open databases include Google Scholar, Dimensions, CORE, BASE, Paperity, SciELO, Scilit, Semantic Scholar, & Zenodo.

Interdisciplinary databases

Evidence syntheses databases

• Use these to find systematic reviews and meta-analyses on health topics

Other relevant subject databases

• Use these to find literature on topics important to Health Sciences e.g. mental health

Researchers increasingly share their scholarly manuscripts publicly before publishing in an academic journal. These articles are called preprints and are shared via preprint servers. They have not been peer-reviewed but may still be important sources of information.

Health-related preprint servers include: