SafetyLit

SafetyLit is a bibliographic citation index and online update of recently published scholarly research of relevance to those interested in the broad field of injury prevention and safety promotion. Like the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed system, SafetyLit is a free service that is distributed without commercial messages. There are many online literature databases. Most are subscription-based and are available only through a library. Typically, these databases focus on a specific scientific discipline. For example, PubMed has a bio-medicine focus, PsycINFO focuses upon behavioral issues, Compendex on engineering, etc.

The issues relevant to safety research and policy development, however, arise from many specialties. Thus, SafetyLit draws its content from many disciplines but selects articles that are relevant to the issues of injury prevention and safety promotion from over over 2900 scholarly journals in the physical, biological and social sciences, as well as engineering, medicine, and the applied social sciences.

Information about the journals indexed in SafetyLit is found in the SafetyLit Journals Database that lists journal title and current publisher, title abbreviation, both the print and electronic International Standard Serial Number (pISSN and eISSN), the range of years the journal has been published, the journal's previous or subsequent titles, and a link to the journal's pages on the publisher's website.

SafetyLit, initiated in 1998, is a cooperative project of the San Diego State University College of Health & Human Services and the World Health Organization - Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention.

References

Citation
last =Pless
first =IB
author-link =
last2 =
first2 =
author2-link =
title =Unfinished business.
journal =Injury Prevention
volume =13
issue =3
pages =145-146
date =2007
year =2007
url =
doi =10.1136/ip.2007.016170
id =

Citation
last =Lawrence
first =DW
author-link =
last2 =Guard
first2 =A
author2-link =
last3 =Meier
first3 =A
author3-link =
last4 =Laflamme
first4 =L
author4-link =
title =Developing the injury prevention and safety promotion thesaurus, international English edition: An interdisciplinary tool for indexing and searching for research literature.
journal =Safety Science
volume =44
issue =4
pages =279-296
date =2006
year =2006
url =
doi =10.1016/j.ssci.2005.10.006
id =

Citation
last =Nilsen
first =P
author-link =
last2 =
first2 =
author2-link =
title =What makes community based injury prevention work? In search of evidence of effectiveness.
journal =Injury Prevention
volume =10
issue =5
pages =268-274
date =2004
year =2004
url =
doi =10.1136/ip.2004.005744
id =

Citation
last =Pless
first =IB
author-link =
last2 =
first2 =
author2-link =
title =Is this journal really needed?
journal =Injury Prevention
volume =9
issue =4
pages =289-291
date =2003
year =2003
url =
doi =
id =

External links

* [http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/en/ World Health Organization Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention]

* [http://publichealth.sdsu.edu/ San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health]

* [http://www.cippp.org/ SDSU Center for Injury Prevention Policy and Practice]

* [http://www.safetylit.org/ SafetyLit]