OOMPH Library Resources: PHW 272A, 277, 272C Geographic Information Systems: Handbooks, Articles, Help & Tutorials

Please be mindful when using copyrighted materials in course projects such as StoryMaps. Generally, embedding links or code is a best practice to avoid copyright issues. The UC Berkeley Library's Office of Scholarly Communication has provided this information guide to assist you. 

Use this PubMed GIS search to find articles on GIS and Health. 

Then, use the PubMed Advanced Search Builder (click "Advanced" under the search box) to add terms relevant to your topic to this search: disease terms (diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, etc.); geography terms (ie, China, developing countries, etc.); types of people (ie, rural population, health personnel, African Americans, etc.), and so forth.

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You can also try a similar search in Embase: 

Copy/paste the search string below into the Embase search box, then add AND [(your_terms)], using disease, geography, people, etc. terms.

('geographic information system'/exp OR 'geographic information system' OR 'map'/exp OR 'spatial analysis'/exp OR 'spatial analysis' OR gis:ti OR gis:ab OR 'health mapping')

♦ Check out the GIS & Mapping Community of Practice campus meetup! ♦

There are many ways to hear about GIS and mapping related news on and around campus:

• Join Oski GIS and the UC GIS community on Slack!
• General campus GIS & mapping listserv - Information about trainings and events on campus, job postings, and funding opportunities.
• GIF (Geospatial Innovation Facility) community listserv - News from the GIF about their Geolunch seminar series, workshops, classes, and events.

The following lists are not GIS/mapping focused, but often have relevant items:

• Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) listserv - Information related to archaeological research with a focus on public events occurring at UC Berkeley and the larger San Francisco Bay Area. 
• D-Lab weekly newsletter - Announcements about training opportunities at the D-Lab, the social science data lab.