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Introduction: Purchasing scientific journals take a large amount of university library budget. So choosing journals with a scientific validity that response to universities needs is so important. This Article aims to have a survey on usage rate of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences users on public, environmental and occupational health journals to confirm core journals via Bradford Scattering law and compare them with the ISI Journals list.Methods: This is a padding descriptive research that had a bibliometric survey on Isfahan University of Medical Sciences Electronic journals that presented in Iranian National Medical Digital Library (www.inlm.org). Research society was consisting of 191 electronic journals. A checklist was used for data collection and research findings presented by descriptive statistics in Microsoft excel.Results: The findings showed that the core journals of this university in public & environmental health course were Social Science and Medicine, Patient Education and Consulting and Preventive Medicine journals. The most widely used journal by users of the university in this field, in 2008 was not in ISI journal citation reports and most prestigious journal in the ISI in this category was in 32nd place rank of using.Conclusion: The results indicated the little familiarity of the university users with electronic resources in the health field. But we can expect that establishment of training course and electronic collections presentation can help electronic resource cognition in users and increase using them.Keywords: Periodicals; Schools, Public Health; Occupational Health; Public Health; Universities; Resources.
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