Resources

Custom Search Engines

• Custom Search Engine for Canadian Public Health Information
• Custom Search Engine for US State Government Information
• Custom Search Engine for Ontario Public Health Units
• Custom Search Engine for Canadian Public Health Associations

Recently Updated Resources (2023)

• Public Health Grey Literature Sources (updated 2023) (PDF, 198k)
• Funding Opportunities - List of Canadian and International Agencies (updated 2023) (PDF, 252k)

Additional Resources

• Ebola Outbreak 2014: Public Health Information Resources (PDF, 26k)
• Looking for the latest research on Ebola? Click here to run a MEDLINE search for articles on Ebola that have been published since March 2014. (To run this search without a date limit, click here.)
• Critical Appraisal of Research Evidence: A Guide from the Ontario Public Health Libraries Association (PDF, 214k)
• Ontario Public Health Unit Reports: A Grey Literature Repository Compiled by OPHLA
• CINAHL Tutorial (PDF, 448k)
• Evidence Based Public Health Information Sources (PDF, 76k)
• EBSCO Medline - A Self Learning Guide (DOC, 640k)
• Guide to Database Searching via Ovid (PDF, 708k)
• Literature Searching for Evidence Reading List (PDF, 116k)
• Open Access Public Health Journals (PDF, 336k)
• Population Health Indicators (PDF, 40k)
• Public Health Databases (PDF, 587k)
• Public Health Alerts and Discussion Lists (Listservs) (PDF, 201k)
• PubMed Tutorial (PDF, 980k)
• Web Search Tools (PDF, 149k)
• Guide to Using OPHLA's "Live" Literature Searches for the Ontario Public Health Standards (PDF, 1,920k)