LibGuides: SoHP: Healthcare Administration: Finding Articles

Interlibrary Loan

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Electronically request and receive articles, book chapters, or other resources when unavailable in full-text from the NU Library.

Research Best Bets

A-All EBSCO Databases This link opens in a new window
Content: One central search that contains all of NU's subscribed EBSCO databases.
Purpose: Search for articles from multiple disciplines with this collection of databases from EBSCO.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Content: Scholarly journals, academic content, periodicals and videos covering a broad range of academic disciplines.
Purpose: A good starting point for research with coverage across many disciplines and fields.
Special Features: Text-to-speech listening feature. Tool to help discover citing articles.
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CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Content: EBSCO’s nursing database covering biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and allied health disciplines.
Purpose: Database for research in nursing, medicine, and consumer health.
Special Features: Strong qualitative studies. Filter studies by nurse as author, evidence-based practice, and type of study. Includes MESH indexing, PICO search functionality, text-to-speech feature for some articles, and a tool for discovering citing articles.
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Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Content: Database of intervention focused systematic reviews.
Purpose: Learn the effectiveness of interventions proven through evidence-based research.
Special Features: Includes MESH and PICO search functionality.
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- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
- Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
- Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR)
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
- Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA)
- NHS Economic Evaluation Database (EED)
MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window
Content: Biomedical and health journals. Provides MESH subject headings and offers the full text of many popular MEDLINE-indexed journals that are not available in other databases.
Purpose: Informs users about health and medicine topics
Special Features: Includes text-to-speech function for some articles
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
Content: Includes citations to millions of biomedical journal articles, as well as some books, book chapters, and reports.
Purpose: An essential database for biomedical and health topics
Special Features: Includes MeSH search functionality

Sample Searches

NavigatorSearch

Search for articles, books, dissertations, and more

Finding Full-Text

Finding full-text is easy if you know what you're looking for (refer to image below):

In most databases you can simply limit to ONLY articles that have full-text available.
In NavigatorSearch and other EBSCO databases, you can select the "Click to look for full text" option under an article to see if it is available in another library database.
Articles with PDF full text availability will show up with the "PDF Full Text" icon under the article record.

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Selected Journals

Learn how to find particular journals in the Library. See the FAQ: How do I locate a specific publication in the Library?

Administration and Policy in Mental Health
Peer-reviewed, original empirical research articles and administrative and policy notes, which are commentaries, observations, and/or opinions that are briefer and less research-oriented than articles.
American Journal of Managed Care
Addresses a broad range of issues relevant to clinical decision making in a cost-constrained environment and examines the impact of clinical, management, and policy interventions and programs on healthcare and economic outcomes.
American Journal of Public Health
Dedicated to the publication of original work in research, research methods, and program evaluation in the field of public health.
BMC Health Services Research
An open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of health services research.
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
Aimed at health economists, health services researchers, and policy-makers with an interest in enhancing the flow and transfer of knowledge relating to efficiency in the health sector.
Frontiers of Health Services Management
A trade publication of the American College of Healthcare Executives focuses on directions in health services management and policy.
Health Affairs
Peer-reviewed journal of health policy thought and research.
Health Care Analysis: An International Journal of Health Care Philosophy and Policy
Promotes debate about the fundamental rationale of all aspects of health systems and health care provision, including public policy and health; health-related education; health services organization and decision-making; health care professional practice.
Health Economics
Publishes articles on all aspects of health economics: theoretical contributions, empirical studies and analyses of health policy from the economic perspective.
Health Marketing Quarterly
Peer-reviewed journal directed at academics and practitioners who are concerned with the concepts, practice, and research of health care marketing in today’s complex environment.
Health Services & Outcomes Research Methodology
Strives to enhance the level of methodologic rigor in health services and outcomes research, and contributes to the development of methodologic standards in the field.
Health Services Research
Peer-reviewed scholarly journal that provides researchers and public and private policymakers with the latest research findings, methods, and concepts related to the financing, organization, delivery, evaluation, and outcomes of health services.
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
Peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association.
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
Published monthly, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to providing health professionals with the information they need to promote the quality and safety of health care.
Journal of Health and Human Services Administration
Blind-refereed journal dedicated to publishing articles, symposia and book reviews in all areas of health, hospital and welfare administration and management.
Journal of Health Care Finance
An online publication that covers both academic/theoretical content as well as timely, real-world developments and innovations, both within the U.S. and internationally.
Journal of Healthcare Management
A peer-reviewed publication of the American College of Healthcare Executives, features timely columns on careers and strategic marketing as well as interviews with top executives.
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Contributes to the educational mission of The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, covering public health, health disparities, patient safety and quality of care, and biomedical science and research.

Selected Health Care Management Trade & Popular News

Healthcare Executive
A professional publication that focuses on a single critical management issue, such as human resources, physician roles, governance, technology, information systems, and career planning.
Healthcare Finance News
An online news source for developments in the healthcare finance industry.
Healthcare Financial Management (HFM)
Covers management and finance of health care organizations and integrated delivery systems, application of new procedures and systems in accounting, managed care, information systems, patient accounts management groups, practice management, financing of alternative delivery systems, reimbursement issues and legislation.
Healthcare Purchasing News
Trade magazine dedicated to reporting the information, solutions and stories about medical products and systems that affect healthcare supply chain management.
Health Facilities Management
A trade publication of the American Hospital Association provides comprehensive coverage of the unique challenges facing the health facility design, construction and operations communities.