Workshop

Professional/Academic Literature

Global health (1973-  )  and  Global health archive (1912-1983) cover the global literature of public health

Health Policy Reference Center offers indexing with full text, for health care administration, health care financing and economics, health care reform, health services research, medical and health care ethics and social medicine. Worldwide coverage. Largely 21st century, but some back to 1920s

See also the Library Research Guide for Primary Sources in the History of Medicine and the recording of the Medical Literature workshop in this series.

US Federal Level

Public Health Service Publications

State and Local Sources

Health, Medicine & Safety Sources in State Agency Databases

Public Health and Social Care offers reports from think tanks, IGOs, NGOs, research centers, hospitals. government agencies.  Largely 21st century but with significant late 20th, a few earlier. Few state government sources.

Methods for finding state and local documents in the Library Research Guide for History: State and City Documents.

HathiTrust Digital Library includes a searchable database of digitized books and periodicals contributed by numerous libraries. Includes items contributed by these libraries to Google Books and to Internet Archive but with some unique material. Each full text item is linked to a standard library catalog record, thus providing good metadata. The catalog can be searched separately. Globally full text searchable.

Internet Archive offers full text for a variety of digitized books and periodicals.  Also includes archived web pages (Wayback Machine), as well as manuscripts (a few), digitized microfilm, films, audio files, TV News, and more.  Many recent books are full text viewable if you set up a free account. You can use a Google password.

Details on searching HathiTrust and Internet Archive

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a catalog of digitized historical sources from libraries and archives all move the US

Digital Libraries by State: These websites list hundreds of local, state, and regional resources.

WorldCat (Harvard subscription version) A collective catalog of thousands of libraries including Harvard.  Use Advanced search
At Options (top right) adjust Record list size to 100
There will often be multiple entries for the same book

WorldCat.org (Public version) Choose Open Content, or Format: Website. Very useful for finding open access material.

Global

Library Research Guide for HISTSCI 1461: Historical Perspectives on Global Health

Library Research Guide for History: Foreign Government & International Organization Documents