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Public Health

Library Guide for Public Health

Library Guide to Public Health Resources

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Finding Books and E-Books on Public Health

You can search for books at the Montgomery Library using the CU Search box, located further down on this page and on the library homepage. To find only print books, click the "Print Books" tab above the CU Search box, and type in your search. To include additional print books from the InterLibrary Loan system, first type in your search keywords and click "Search." After that, you will see a search filter menu appear to the left of your search results. Click "At My Library," and then click the check box for "Other Libraries" to include books available through InterLibrary Loan. (See video tutorial here.)

To find only e-books, click the "E-Books" tab above the CU Search box, and type in your search. To search for additional e-books, go directly to a database called eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).

Try using multiple keywords, quotation marks around multiword phrases, and the capitalized Boolean operators AND and OR to get better search results. Here are some example search phrases:

"public health" AND behavior
"public health" AND vaccine AND intervention
vaccine OR immunization
"public health" AND (Medicare OR Medicaid)

For more details about how Boolean searches work, check out our page on generating search terms.

CU Search

  • CU Search provides a quick, powerful search of most of Montgomery Library's online and physical resources.
  • After you click search, always click Sign in at the top right before you try to access online search results.
  • Click the tabs below to search for only one kind of source at a time (articles, e-books, print books, or DVDs).
  • To search an individual database, find a complete list of databases here: Databases A-Z

eBook Collection by EBSCOhost

Additional e-books not available through CU Search can be found at EBSCOhost's ebook collection, which contains over 180,000 books.

Browse the Collection

Use these call numbers to browse the reference and circulating collections on Montgomery Library's first floor.

Library of Congress Classification Guide for Public Health 

QH 301-705.5   Biology (General)
QH 359-425   Evolution
QH 426-470   Genetics
QH 471-489   Reproduction
QH 501-531   Life
QH 540-549.5   Ecology
QH 573-671   Cytology
QH 705-705.5   Economic biology
     
QR 1-502             Microbiology
QR 1-74.5   General Microbiology
QR 75-99.5   Bacteria
QR 99.6-99.8   Cyanobacteria
QR 100-130   Microbial ecology
QR 171   Microorganisms in the animal body
QR 180-189.5   Immunology
QR 355-502   Virology
     
R                   Medicine                                                                                            
RA   Public aspects of medicine, regulations, disease, immunity
RB   Pathology
RC   Internal and popular medicine, neurology, psychiatry, sports medicine 
RD   Surgery, emergency surgery, surgical nursing
RE   Ophthalmology, ophthalmic nursing
RG         Gynecology and obstetrics
RJ   Pediatrics, pediatric nursing
RK   Dentistry
RL   Dermatology
RM   Therapeutics, pharmacology
RS   Pharmacy and materia medica
RT   Nursing, specialties in nursing
RX   Homeopathy
RZ   Other systems of medicine, chiropractic, osteopathy and mental healing


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