This guide gives you an overview of recommended sources for health policy and management: databases to find literature, reference works to orientate on a specific topic, relevant statistical sources and information about a special collection for ESHPM: a book collection with patient stories.
Please use the tabs at the left to find information for your research and interest. If you have any questions or comments about this guide, or need further help with using this guide or your area of research, please let me know!
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Below you will find a list of e-book packages relevant for the field of health care policy and management. Some are already available licenses, some packages are temporarily available because the publisher is now giving more access to its e-books and e-journals.
If you are looking for a specific title, it's better to use sEURch, because there all publishers are covered.
For teachers: if you are looking for online access to a specific book: please let me know, so that I can check the available options.
This database gives access to comprehensive review articles, covering the major literature on a specific topic, in the social sciences and economics.
The EUR subscribes to the journals in the collections Social Sciences and Economics, plus a number of journals in the field of medicine.
From 2023, Annual Reviews uses a 'Subscribe to Open' (S2O) model: subscription payments are used to convert gated access journals to Open Access.
Full-text access to academic journals and e-books published by Cambridge University Press.
Multidisciplinary archive of full-text articles of the most important academic journals. Also contains a large collection of ebooks (book chapters) and primary source materials.
Date range: In general journals have been indexed from the first issue. Please note that for most journals the last three to five years are not available via JSTOR (the moving wall embargo).
The EUR subscribes to the collections
- Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, VI, VII and IX
- Business I
- Health & General Sciences
Ebooks published by MIT Press. Key subject areas covered include art and architecture, biomedical sciences, business and finance, computer science, cognitive science, design, education, environment, game studies, humanities, information science, linguistics, neuroscience, new media, philosophy and social sciences.
Perpetual access to the books published in 2020 and 2021.
In 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 the Erasmus Library participates in MIT Direct to Open HSS (Humanities & Social Science) collection and receives term access to the HSS backfile collection until December 31, 2025.
The EUR has access to the following collections:
Besides these collections, the Library also has access to a small number of individual titles titles from other years or in other subjects.
Full-text access to high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals and books from over 400 scholarly publishers.
Date range: 1993 - present
Related database: JSTOR
Each handbook/companion offers a thorough introduction in the topic concerned and a critical overview of the scientific state of affairs, the chapters having been written by leading scholars in the field. Available titles are surrounded with meaningful metadata and abstracts at a chapter level, making them fully searchable and browsable.
Key Features:
• Expansive coverage of 44 subject areas.
• Purchased titles are DRM-free: you can download, print, and save without restrictions.
• Please note: The Routledge handbooks in Communication, Journalism, Media and Culture Studies from 2020 onwards can be found on Taylor & Francis eBooks (subjects Media & Film Studies and Cultural Studies).
Access to the journals, e-books and reference works published by Elsevier and its subsidiaries.
The EUR doesn't have access to all e-books published by Springer. Access is limited to certain disciplines and years:
Bibliographic and partly full-text database with journals, e-books and reference works published by Wiley on all kind of subjects and disciplines, like psychology, medicine, education and health care.