Biomedical Science
Resources for Biomedical Science
Biomedical Science 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 handbooksPrint 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 medical, nursing & allied health dictionary
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610.3/22
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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
drugs AND manuals
medicine AND handbooks
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. medicin** will retrieve medicine, medicines, medicinal  Need help? Ask a question.
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Biomedical Science books and moreSearch the Library Catalogue to find books, videos and CDs 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. nutrition AND health
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. medicin** will retrieve medicine, medicines, medicinal Catalogue search tips:
- Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. heart disease AND statistics AND Australia
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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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Biomedical Science journal articlesSearch a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and research reports Try these first 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, 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
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Biomedical Science Internet sitesIt is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web. Try the following sites as a starting point: Anatomy
- Visual human project
Complete anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies BiomechanicsHealth informatics
- Health Informatics
A collection of sites, linked from the Library's Information Technology page Nutrition
- Nutrition
A collection of sites relating to nutrition Occupational health and safetySports scienceSouth Eastern Sydney/Illawarra Area Health ServiceStatisticsSearch enginesSearch 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)
DirectoriesDirectories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.
- HealthInsite (Australian)
Aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health. An Australian Government initiative.
- Healthfinder
US Department of Health and Human Services consumer information website
- HealthWeb
- WWW Virtual Library
Links to other virtual libraries
- Virtual hospital
A digital library of health information UOW sitestop of page
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