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History of Medicine and Public Health
A guide to information sources about the history of medicine and public health.
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How to Use Google Scholar Off CampusDue to recent changes made by Google, you'll need to do a one-time set-up for your account to access full-text articles available through UTSA Libraries. Step by step instructions provided.
Key Databases
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Gale eBooks This link opens in a new windowContains the full text of over 2000 volumes of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources in a variety of disciplines. Fully cross-searchable across different resources. Formerly known as Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowContains the full text of over 230 dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources in a variety of disciplines, including the natural sciences, social sciences, and arts.
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Health Reference Center - Academic (Gale) This link opens in a new windowProvides selected abstracts and full-text access to a variety of health information sources including 40 nursing and allied health journals, consumer health magazines, reference books, newsletters, health pamphlets, newspaper articles, and general interest titles.
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MEDLINE (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowProvides article citations from over 4,800 journals published in the United States and seventy other countries. Encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources in allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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PubMed This link opens in a new windowProduced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), PubMed provides free access to MEDLINE, NLM's database of more than 11 million bibliographic citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. See also MEDLINE.
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Quarantine and Infectious Disease Control Series This link opens in a new windowQuarantine and Infectious Disease Control in America Series, from Accessible Archives, contains first-hand accounts of the American experience with infectious diseases from historical perspectives. Part I - Newspapers from 1736-1922; Part II - Books from 1823-1928.
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ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new windowComprehensive full image coverage of U.S. Congressional publications 1789-present, Updated daily.
Includes Hearings (1824-present); Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) (1916-present); House and Senate Documents/Reports (1817-present); Legislative Histories (1969-current); Bills & Laws (1776-present); Vote Reports (1987-present); Historical Maps & Images (1789-2007); Congressional Record (daily and bound versions) (1789-present); Regulations; Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations; Presidential Executive Orders.
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Early American Imprints, Series 1: Evans, 1639-1800 (NewsBank) This link opens in a new windowBased on Evans' American Bibliography, this database contains the full text of all known existing books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the American Colonies or United States from 1639 through 1800. Includes an additional 1,100 titles from Bristol's Supplement to Evans.
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Early American Imprints Series 2: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1800-1819 (NewsBank) This link opens in a new windowProvides access to over 36,000 American books, pamphlets, and broadsides published from the years 1800 through 1819. Also contains state papers and government materials; presidential letters and messages; and congressional, state and territorial resolutions.
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Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowProvides citations to nearly 14 million articles in the humanities and social sciences. Full-text articles are available from approximately 740 historically significant periodicals in disciplines such as anthropology, area studies, economics, education, history, linguistics and philology, literature, music and the performing arts, and sociology, among others. Includes full-text articles in languages other than English, with significant offerings in Spanish, French, and German.
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America: History and Life (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSelectively indexes and abstracts the scholarly literature on U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Includes citations to journal articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations. Also includes useful features such as the ability to search by historical time period. For world history, see Historical Abstracts.
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Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSelectively indexes and abstracts the scholarly literature of world history from 1450 to the present. Includes citations to journal articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations. Also includes useful features such as the ability to search by historical time period. For U.S. and Canadian history see America: History and Life.
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Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowProvides citations and abstracts, as well as full text PDFs, to millions of doctoral dissertations and master's theses from graduate schools and universities around the world. Full text coverage is primarily from 1997 forward, with a significant number of full text titles previous to 1997. Coverage is from 1637 to the present.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowProvides full image access to a comprehensive archive of over 2,000 scholarly journals over 200 of which have complete backfiles. Nearly 40 subject areas are represented in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. New subjects and titles are added regularly. Links to the most recent issues of some journals are available through Project MUSE.
National Library of Medicine
Please note: See box about How to Get Resources from the National Library of Medicine.
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The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of MedicineThe National Library of Medicine houses one of the world's largest history of medicine collections. It collects, preserves, and makes available materials documenting the history of medicine, health, and disease in all time periods and cultures. Includes digitized books and nearly 70,000 images.
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Search LocatorPlus for History of Medicine BooksHistoric medical book citations can be found by using the History of Medicine Quick Limit option.
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IndexCat - 15th-20th centuryThe online version of the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army is a comprehensive subject catalog of books, pamphlets, dissertations, etc. NOTE: Link may only work in some browsers.
How to Get Resources from the National Library of Medicine
National Library of Medicine catalogs may lead you to a citation for print material with no full text online.
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WorldCat (OCLC) This link opens in a new windowContains more than 44 million bibliographic records describing materials (books, journals, films, manuscripts, scores, computer files, etc.) held by libraries around the world. More than 400 languages are represented. Provides links to library holdings.
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TexShare InformationFind out how to get a Texshare card to use at other academic and public libraries in Texas.