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An intuitive, self-guided product that supports information literacy, writing, and research skills instruction occurring in today's libraries, classrooms, and online learning environments.

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RefWorks
A user-friendly reference manager and citation builder, free to Touro students.
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Cite It Rite
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Copyright Basics
The basics of copyright, public domain, and creative commons explained.
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OWL at Purdue

The Purdue University Online Writing Lab General Writing Resources page offers comprehensive information and examples to help students with all stages of the writing process.

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Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available learning resources. Because they are released under an open license, you have the right to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute them:

What is Creative Commons?

Academic Video Online

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Intra-Library Book Loan

Learn how to request materials from other Touro Library locations when searching the catalog under "Books & More".

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Databases are a great place to search for individual articles from newspapers, magazines, and academic journals.

While many news and magazine articles may also be found with an internet search engine, our subscription databases can provide you with access to older articles that are not available online and other pay-per-view materials, plus additional options to refine your search. As far as scholarly articles go, databases should be your first stop! Most scholarly literature is not freely available.

Get started quickly with the seach bar below, or check out some of our subject-specific recommendations. Be sure you've registered for off-campus access.

Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Designed primarily to support undergraduate-level research, Academic OneFile is a good general-purpose periodical index with journals and popular magazines that includes much full-text, many going back to the 1980s. Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELNY.
EBSCO multi-search This link opens in a new window
Search articles in many EBSCO databases at once. Encompasses ERIC, Professional Development Collection, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Newspaper Source, MasterFILE Premier, MEDLINE, Business Source Complete, Academic Search Complete.
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Provides Information from over 700 journals on agriculture, biology, geology, economics, engineering, energy, and policy related to the environment. Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELNY.
General Science Collection (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Covers all scientific endeavor, including particle physics, quantum theory, advanced mathematics, and biotechnology. Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELNY.
ProQuest One Academic This link opens in a new window
Provides access to journals, ebooks, dissertations, video, and news from ProQuest Central, Academic Video Online, and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Public Health Database (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Covers a wide variety of disciplines ranging from social sciences to business to biological sciences. Includes thousands of full-text dissertations provide in-depth scholarly insights into important topics such as biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, health services administration, international public health, maternal and child health, and occupational safety and health.
PubMed @ Touro This link opens in a new window
Allows you to not only access PubMed but also the full-text holding at Touro. PubMed comprises over 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.
Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Covers physics, engineering, astronomy, biology, earth science, chemistry, etc. Includes charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, & other graphical elements.
SciVerse ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences College Edition This link opens in a new window
Includes over 1000 journals. and over 20 reference works, and handbooks. Covers biological chemistry, forensic sciences, human nutrition, immunology, psychotherapy, neurological sciences, etc. Full-text content dates back to 1995.

Academic Journals This link opens in a new window
Open-access journals in numerous disciplines.
BASE This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 100 million documents, including journals, institutional repositories, and digital collections, in most subject areas.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering most subjects and languages.
Free Medical Journals This link opens in a new window
Open-access medical journals.
PubMed @ Touro This link opens in a new window
Allows you to not only access PubMed but also the full-text holding at Touro. PubMed comprises over 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.

Books & eBooks

All of Touro's print books can be found by searching the catalog (above, or under the "Catalog" tab on the library homepage). Use the advanced search to limit your results by year, campus location, under Location. If a print book you'd like is at a different campus, learn how to request it.

For eBooks use the eBooks link on library homepage.

The items below are just a sampling of the many titles available:

Environmental Health Disparities by I. Leslie Rubin; Joav Merrick (Editor)
ISBN: 9781634842129
Publication Date: 2016-02-12
This book represents a body of work performed by students from a diverse set of disciplines and a variety of universities. Each project was developed by the students to “break the cycle” of social, economic and environmental health disparities. This book contains the projects from the tenth annual'Break the Cycle'program. “Break the Cycle” projects are designed to raise awareness among students of the reality of environmental health disparities and its impact on the world around them.
Environmental Health Ethics by David B. Resnik
Call Number: WA 30.5 R47 2012
ISBN: 9781107023956
Publication Date: 2012-06-11
An overview of environmental health -- Ethical theory -- Toward an environmental health ethics -- Pest control -- Genetic engineering, food, and nutrition -- Pollution and waste -- The built environment -- Climate change, energy, and population -- Justice and environmental health -- Environmental research involving human participants
Environmental Health in Selected Asian Countries by WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Call Number: RA565 .W675 2018eb
ISBN: 9789290618386
Publication Date: 2019-02-11
The report presents the state of the environment and health in the 14 countries of the Regional Forum based on country profiles and United Nations and World Health Organization statistics. This updated version incorporates inputs from Member States at the Regional Forum.
Environmental Pollutant Exposures and Public Health by R. M. Harrison (Editor)
ISBN: 9781839160431
Publication Date: 2020-10-27
Both genes and environment have profound effects upon our health. While some environmental factors such as polluted air are high in the public consciousness, there are many other pathways for people’s exposure to toxic chemicals, such as through food, water and contaminated land. It is not only chemicals that can affect health; environmental radioactivity, pathogenic organisms and our changing climate also have implications for public health, and all contribute to the global burden of disease, leading to both disability and deaths of millions of people annually across the world. An understanding of the pathways of environmental exposure, and its effects upon health is key to developing regulations and behaviours that reduce or prevent exposure, and the consequent impacts upon health
Fire Safety in Residential Property by Richard Lord
ISBN: 9781000398342
Publication Date: 2021-03-30
This book: Provides wider access to fire safety knowledge previously generally used by regulators and specialists. Examines fire risk assessments in domestic premises and the competency of assessors. Explains the approaches to fire safety enforcement the impact of property licensing. Includes fire risk precautions for housing and general checklists to help landlords and tenants understand their responsibilities
Fresh Air, Clean Water: Our Right to a Healthy Environment by Megan Clendenan; Julie McLaughlin (Illustrator)
Call Number: ebook full-text
ISBN: 9781459826809
Publication Date: 2022-03-15
Fresh Air, Clean Water: Defending Our Right to a Healthy Environment explores the connections between our environment and our health, and why the right to live in a healthy environment should be protected as a human right.
Pediatric Environmental Health by Ruth A. Etzel (Editor); Sophie J. Balk (Associate Editor); American Academy American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health
ISBN: 9781610022187
Publication Date: 2018-12-21
This comprehensive guide puts critical children's health information and answers to parents'questions at your fingertips. From asbestos to radiation, ultraviolet rays, pesticides, asthma, lead, tobacco, and child care and school environments—current information on an exhaustive range of environmental health issues is included.
Tackling Health Inequalities by Surindar Kishen Dhesi
ISBN: 9781351601627
Publication Date: 2018-10-25
Although environmental health has received some recognition as a field which can positively impact on the social determinants of health, it remains little known outside its immediate sphere of influence. There is also limited literature available to support the potential impact of the profession in public health policy circles, and there has been an overreliance on anecdotal rather than firm evidence. This book presents the findings of an empirical research project focussed on public health policymaking (English Health and Wellbeing Boards),

Open Access Journals

Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology (EAHT) is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that receives manuscripts on the fields of research, policy, and teaching of environmental analysis health and toxicology.
The journal is published online and includes original articles, reviews, meeting reports, brief reports, case reports, investigation reports, special topics, editorials, and letters.
Environmental Health
Environmental Health publishes manuscripts on all aspects of environmental and occupational medicine and related studies in toxicology and epidemiology.
The journal is aimed at scientists and practitioners in all areas of environmental science where human health and well-being are involved, either directly or indirectly. Environmental Health is a public health journal serving the public health community and scientists working on matters of public health interest and importance pertaining to the environment.
Environmental Health operates an open peer-review system, where the reviewers' names are included on the peer review reports for authors. For more information, see our peer-review policy.
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine features definitive studies on human health sciences and provides comprehensive and unique information to a worldwide readership.
Environmental Health Insights
Environmental Health Insights is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access online journal which looks at how environmental factors affect the health of individuals and societies.
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a monthly journal of environmental health research and news published with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Journal of Environmental and Public Health
Journal of Environmental and Public Health is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, and clinical studies covering all population-wide health issues.

Recommended Websites

To find additional quality information online, try using Google Scholar, which searches an academically-oriented subset of online materials:

Streaming Videos

Academic Video Online (Proquest) This link opens in a new window Over 67,000 titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, counseling & therapy, education, health, and nursing.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Includes 100 streaming-media titles, primarily in education, psychology, and literature, with some titles in history and science.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window Includes almost 1,500 streaming media titles, including business, education, English literature, nursing, psychology, and social work.

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