Databases allow you to search for peer reviewed articles from a large number of journal titles at the same time. The Library subscribes to a number of databases which you can access with your City email address. There are also databases available online which are free to use.
If you are performing a literature review for an assignment searching 3 or 4 databases will suffice. For a dissertation or doctoral research, searching between 5-8 databases is the norm.
See our Literature searching guide for help with searching databases.
Masters and Doctoral students who are writing a dissertation or research paper should use our Advanced literature searching and systematic reviews guide which covers more advanced search techniques.
EBSCOhost is a platform which gives you access to a number of databases, covering various subjects. You can create an account and save and edit any searches you perform within these databases.
To help you select databases most relevant to your research, here are details of those which cover information that may be relevant to Health Management.
Multidisciplinary database providing access to full text articles, reports, conference proceedings and books.
Journal articles, case studies, company profiles, industry reports, SWOT analyses. Covers business and economics, with full text access to the Harvard Business Review.
Database covering nursing and allied health research, including more than 50 nursing specialties.
Covers all fields of economics, including: capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, and labour economic.
Covers all issues in the discipline of health policy such as health care access, health care quality, health care financing, etc.
The Health Policy Reference Center is a comprehensive full-text database designed to support the informational needs of corporations, medical institutions, government agencies, and other entities relative to health policy.
Database of information and peer reviewed research related to biomedicine, life sciences, behavioural sciences and biomedical engineering. Recommended for systematic reviews.
The full text articles to some journals may have embargo period up to 12 months.
Coverage includes law and legislation, comparative politics, political theory, international relations, humanitarian issues, and non-governmental organizations.
Ovid Online is a platform which gives you access to a number of health databases. You can create an account and save and edit any searches you perform within these databases.
To help you select databases most relevant to your research, here are details of those which cover information that may be relevant to Health Management.
Search for information on a range of specialities across allied health professions including alternative and complementary therapies.
Produced by the British Library's Health Care Information Service.
High quality database for research across medicine and health sciences which is updated daily and recommended for systematic reviews.
Covers the following aspects of human health and disease: communicable diseases, tropical diseases, parasitic diseases, human nutrition, community and public health, medicinal and poisonous plants.
Covers health service policy, management and administration, with an emphasis on the British National Health Service.
Nursing and allied health database including international journals.
The largest abstract and citation database of international peer-reviewed literature: journals, books and conference proceedings. It also has smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research.
Multidisciplinary resource which enables simultaneous cross-searching of a range of citation indexes and databases. It provides access to research tools like cited reference searching and the Journal Citation Reports.