Databases for Graduate School of Medicine

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AccessMedicine   

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Standard medical reference books in electronic form regularly updated

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McGraw-Hill

Standard pharmacy reference books in electronic form, regularly updated

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Mc-Graw-Hill

Australian Medicines Handbook (AMH)

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Covers most drugs marketed in Australia. The AMH is for information purposes only and is designed as a general drug and therapeutic information reference for healthcare professionals and students in Australia.

Current

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AMH Pty. Ltd.

BMJ Clinical Evidence  

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Evidence based medicine. Point of care

Current

Cinahl

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Nursing and allied health. International.

1982 - present

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Ovid.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews  

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Clinical medicine, systematic reviews. International. 1991 - present

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Ovid

Cochrane - All  

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Evidence- based medicine.

Clinical medicine, trials

Clinical medicine, systematic reviews.

Inernational

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Ovid.

Cochrane Library

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Clinical medicine, systematic reviews. International. Current

Alternative access for anybody based in Australia.

This service is on the Wiley Interscience site. The link provided here will allow you to access Cochrane using EZproxy. If you use the link to the Wiley Interscience home page and then go to Cochrane you will lose the EZproxy connection and use will affect quota.

Dictionary of Drugs  

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Drugs and pharmacological agents. International.

Dates vary

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Chapman and Hall/CRC

Drug Database (DRUG)

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Substance abuse. Australian.

1974 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

EBM Reviews - ACP Journal Club  

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Evidence- based medicine. International.

1991 - present

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Ovid

EBM Reviews - All  

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Evidence- based medicine.

Clinical medicine, trials

Clinical medicine, systematic reviews.

Inernational

Conditions of use

Ovid.

EBM Reviews - Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials  

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Clinical medicine, trials. International.

Not date limited

Conditions of use

Ovid

EBM Reviews - Dare  

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Clinical medicine, systematic reviews. International.

Date is latest update for whole database

Conditions of use

Ovid

Medicine - Therapeutic Guidelines

Chapters reviewed and revised every 2-3 years

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Therapeutic Guidelines Limited

FirstConsult  

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Medical, evidence based for point of care.

Premium on current information

FirstConsult website

Common medical topics for information at the point of care.

Frequently updated

McGraw-Hill

Health and Medical Complete  

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Healthcare specialties, including nursing. International.

1986 - present

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Proquest

Health Reference Center - Academic  

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Health information for nursing, public health, nutrition, psychology. International.

Current year plus previous four years

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Gale InfoTrac

Electronic Journals in Lifesciences, Medicine, Law, Psychology, Engineering, biotechnology,Informatics

Dates vary but most commence in 2000, with a few earlier

Mary Ann Liebert Inc.

MDConsult

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Medical developments and clinical information

Premium on current information

MDConsult website

Meditext  

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Health and medicine, with an emphasis on clinical medicine and paraprofessional fields. Australian.

Fulltext 1996- Indexing 1968-

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Informit

Medline 1966-

Medline 1996-

Medline Daily update

Premedline - In-process records

Old medline 1950-1965

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Medicine. Anatomy, diseases, chemicals and drugs, techniques and equipment, psychiatry and psychology and health care. International.

1950 - present, in several files

Conditions of use

Ovid

MIMS Online  

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Pharmaceutical database with information about prescription and non-prescription drugs. Australian

Current

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Health Communication Network (HCN)

Pubmed Central

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Medicine. International. Free version of Medline, Premedline plus other content

1966 - present

National Center for Biotechnology Information - U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Please refer to the help before using this database

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Bibliography (ATSIhealth)

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. Australian.

1988 - present

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Informit

APAIS-Health

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Legal, social, economic and ethical aspects of health. Subset of APAIS. Australian.

1978 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

AusportMed

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Medical and health issues in Australian sport. A subset of Ausport. Australian.

1989 - present

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Informit

Biological Abstracts

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Biological and medical research. Clinical studies, new organisms. agriculture biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, genetics, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. International.

1969- 2003

Access to later material is available through Biosis Previews

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Ovid

Biomed Central  

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Over 100 Open Access journals covering all areas of Biology and Medicine

Conditions of use (word file)

Biomed Central website

Biosis Previews

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Biological and medical research. Clinical studies, new organisms. agriculture biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, genetics, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. International.

2002 -

Access to earlier material is through Biological Abstracts

Conditions of use

Ovid

CINCH-Health

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Criminal law and justice relating to health. Australian.

1968 - present

Conditions of use

Informit

Dictionary of Natural Products  

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Naturally occuring chemicals. International.

Dates vary

Conditions of use

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences  

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Biochemistry, biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology, history of life sciences. International.

Published 2001 with continual updates

Wiley

Family and Society Plus  

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Issues about, or of relevance to families. Australia.

Fulltext 2000 - present. Index 1980 - present

This is Family database with selected fulltext added

Conditions of use

Informit

Health & Society Database (H&S)

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Health policy services and issues. Australian. Subset of Family.

1980 - present

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Informit

Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  

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Nursing and nursing related health issues. International

Dates vary

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CSA

HIV/AIDS Database (HIVA)

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Clinical, nutritional, medical and psychological aspects of HIV/AIDS. Australian focus

1980 - present

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Informit

Over 1000 journals in many disciplines. Strengths in Social Sciences and Humanities. International.

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Nature Journals Online  

Science research. International

Nature Publishing Group

Please consult the Info link for subscribed titles and their links. Individual titles also listed in the Library catalogue

POPLINE

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Reproductive health, population, family planning, and related health issues.

POPLINE website

PsycArticles  

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Psychology. Journals of American Psychological Association. International

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Ovid

PsycBOOKS  

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Psychology books. International

1806 - present

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Ovid

Psycinfo 1806- , 1967- , 1985-

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Psychology and related disciplines. International.

1806 - present

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Ovid

Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  

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Psychology and related disciplines from the publisher SAGE and participating societies. International

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CSA

Rural and Remote Health Database (RURAL)

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Rural and remote area health issues and care, and the practice and educational needs of health providers Australian

1966 - present

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Informit

Virtually all journals published by SAGE. This publisher publishes in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. International

SAGE

Note: SAGE Journals Online includes the Nursing and Psychology collections which have been available on the CSA platform. These are still available on the CSA platform as well as on the SAGE platform

ScienceDirect  

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Life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. International.

1995 - present, some earlier

Conditions of use

ScienceDirect website

SportsDiscus

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Sport: recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness. International.

1800 - present

EbscoHOST

Springerlink  

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Journal of the publisher Springer-Verlag. International with strengths in Behavioral Sciences, Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Material Science, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences & Law, Mathematics, Medicine, and Physics & Astronomy.

Dates vary

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Springerlink

Web of Knowledge

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Portal for Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, JCR Web

Dates vary for each database

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ISI Web of Knowledge

Web of Science

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Citation indexes, which allow searching by cited references. Science Citation Index, Social Science citation Index 1965 - present, Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 1975 - present

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ISI Web of Knowledge

Wiley Interscience  

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Journals published by Wiley, including sciences, life sciences, technology, business and finance and behavioural sciences. International.

Dates vary according to title

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Wiley