SmartLinks is a tool, provided by KaiserEDU.org to provide quick, easy access to external sources of research, analysis, data, and news on some major topics in public health and health policy that are not covered in other parts of the website.
SmartLinks queries have been constructed by staff of the Kaiser Family Foundation. SmartLinks searches 6 online databases for relevant results, which are described below. KaiserEDU.org does not control or edit search results. Some results may not prove to be relevant due to the nature of this tool. All efforts have been made to construct queries with terms that produce relevant results, but it is likely that not all relevant resources will appear. SmartLinks is designed to give you a starting point for your research.
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Pub Med is a service provided by the U.S. National Library Medicine (NLM), which searches over 16 million citations from Medline and some other peer-reviewed biomedical journals. MEDLINE is the NLM's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains over 12 million citations dating back to the mid-1960s. Coverage is international, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Pub Med provides free abstracts, citations, and links to full-text articles. One strategy for searching PubMed is the use of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH Terms), a method for indexing articles that may use different terminology for the same concepts. Several of the KaiserEDU.org SmartLinks queries are constructed using MeSH Terms. More about PubMed.
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Kaiser Daily Reports is a free service of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation's Kaisernetwork.org website. This online resource provides daily coverage of health policy news, debates, events, research, and discussions that affect health policy. It provides links to full-text articles, papers, and event webcasts. Kaisernetwork.org publishes three daily online reports -- the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, the Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, and the Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report – that provide summaries of news stories with links to the original articles and a fully searchable archive. KaiserEDU.org SmartLinks search these 3 reports for relevant news stories on each topic. More about Kaiser Daily Reports.
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HighBeam Research is an online research engine which sorts free, paid, and proprietary online articles and databases published in the past 20 years. The HighBeam library contains documents from more than 3,000 publishers, including newspapers, news wires, magazines, journals, transcripts and more. Reference materials include the Columbia Encyclopedia, an online dictionary, thesaurus and almanac. KaiserEDU.org SmartLinks search newspapers, magazines, books, and transcripts within HighBeam Research for relevant documents on each topic. More about HighBeam Research.
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Google Uncle Sam, sponsored by Google, Inc. broadly searches for articles and publications from federal, state, and local governments or military sites (.gov and .mil) articles and publications. More about Google UncleSam.
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Google Scholar, sponsored by Google, Inc., broadly searches peer-reviewed literature, theses, books, abstracts, articles, and publications from professional societies, universities, or other scholarly sources. Google Scholar aims to sort articles the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature. More about Google Scholar.
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The Grey Literature Report, housed by the New York Academy of Medicine, includes materials are collected in health and science policy, public health, health of minorities and special populations (i.e. children, women, uninsured, elderly) and those areas of general medicine and disease in which the Academy has research interests. The focus is on research material, not consumer health material.
The Report encompasses unindexed materials that are not produced by commercial publishers and are unavailable through normal, commercial distribution channels. Materials in the grey literature collection are published by government agencies, non-profit non-governmental organizations, universities, independent research centers, and international organizations. The publication date of materials is 2000 to the present with an emphasis on prospective collecting. English language print materials are collected.
Document types include but are not limited to case studies, conference proceedings, discussion papers, fact sheets, government documents, issue briefs, research reports, statistical reports, and white papers. Numeric reports are not collected, although questionnaires, health statistics and data are collected when they form an integral part of a report. Currently no audiovisual material, videos or webcasts are collected.
An online report summarizing the latest publications in the Grey Literature collection is distributed published every two months. More about the Grey Literature Report.
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