Medicine
Resources for Medicine
Medicine definitions, facts, figures and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
- Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts
Online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
Print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
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Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary
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610.3/29
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Mosby's dictionary of medicine, nursing & health professions (Aust. edition)
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610.3/34
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| Stedman's medical dictionary for the health professions and nursing |
610.3/32 |
To find additional reference items
- Search the Library Catalogue
- Select advanced keyword search
- Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**
medicine AND dictionaries
medicine AND encyclopedias
medicine AND handbooks
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. medicin** will retrieve medicine, medicines, medicinal
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Medicine books and more
Search the Library Catalogue to find books and more
If you know the exact title
- Select title search
- Type in the exact title
- Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection
If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area
- Select advanced keyword search
- Type in keywords from your topic
- Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
e.g. diabetes AND obesity
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. medic** will retrieve medical, medication, medicine, medicines, medicinal
Catalogue search tips:
- Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. heart disease AND statistics AND Australia
OR
Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
- Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
- Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location
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Medicine journal articles
Search a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and research reports
Try these first
Complete list of Graduate School of Medicine databases
Complete list of Health & Behavioural Sciences databases
Found a useful reference?
Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database.
Database search tips:
- Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
- Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
- To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords
e.g. cardiovascular AND mortality
- To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords
e.g. cancer OR neoplasm
- Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword.
e.g. medic* retrieves medical, medication, medicine, medicinal
- Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material
- Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search
More information: Finding Journal Articles Tutorial
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Medicine Internet sites
It is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web.
Try the following sites as a starting point:
Anatomy and histology
Cardiovascular
Dermatology
- DermAtlas (Johns Hopkins University)
- DermIS - Dermatology Information System
Gastroenterology
Neurosciences
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Pathology
Radiology
Surgery
Images
Calculators
Search engines
Search engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database.
Try these first:
- HealthInsite (Australian)
Aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health.
- Google Scholar
- Anzwers (Australian information)
- Scirus - scientific search engine
Directories
Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.
UOW sites
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