LibGuides: Global Health Toolkit: For Duke Users at Duke

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Robust services in support of global health.

A team of librarians and a vast array of resources are available to you. If you need help, please contact one of the librarians for your area:

Beth Blackwood, Medical Center Library (elizabeth.blackwood@duke.edu)
Hannah Rozear, Perkins Library (hannah.rozear@duke.edu)

Other guides of interest

APA Style Guides

APA Style Reference Guide (N. Michigan)
APA Handouts and Guides
What's new in 7th edition, quick guides, and style templates for papers.
APA Style - Clinical Practice References

Essential Resources

PubMed (MEDLINE) This link opens in a new window
PubMed® is comprised of more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Provides bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references for peer-reviewed journals.
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Scopus This link opens in a new window
Abstract and citation database which includes peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and quality Web sources.
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Global Index Medicus This link opens in a new window
Produced by the World Health Organization, this resource offers the ability to search the literature in regional medical indices, including AIM (AFRO), LILACS (AMRO/PAHO), IMEMR (EMRO), IMSEAR (SEARO), and WPRIM (WPRO).
Global Health This link opens in a new window
Public health database of information from serials, books, conference proceedings, patents, theses, etc. on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, food safety and hygiene, maternal/child health, and more.

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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database of behavioral measurement instruments. Provides information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques, and more. Please note: Access is limited to 10 simultaneous users.
SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window
SAGE Research Methods is a tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. Users can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings.

SciELO
Search articles from Latin and South American countries.
Global Health Observatory
From the WHO. Key statistics for global health research.

Links to More Resources

The list of global health links from Perkins Library offers a thorough list of resources to help your academic and research work in global health and is linked as a tab from this guide. It is an excellent starting point for those beginning research in global health.

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