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Key databases

CINAHL: Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature Selected Full Text
Designed to meet the information needs of nurses and allied health professionals.

MEDITEXT Full Text
Meditext provides full-text journal articles from the 100+ Australasian medical and health journals indexed in AMI, the Australasian Medical Index. Subject coverage includes all aspects of health and medicine in Australasia such as: alternative medicine, clinical medicine, dentistry, ethics, experimental medicine, immunology, legal aspects, nursing, nutrition, occupational health, pharmacy, physiology, physiotherapy, public health, and psychology. There is an emphasis on clinical medicine and paraprofessional fields.

Mosby's Nursing Consult Full Text
Nursing journals, text books, drug information and patient information sheets.

Nursing Resource Center Full Text
The NRC Center includes resources (care plans, journal articles and encyclopedias) designed to meet the assignment-related needs of nursing students.

Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

ProQuest (Health modules) Selected Full Text
Search Health & Medical Complete and Pharmaceutical News Index on the ProQuest interface.

PsycINFO Selected Full Text
Scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health.
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PsycInfo is the single most useful database for students enrolled in Counselling programmes. Psychiatry Online in the Useful databses section below is also particularly valuable.

Worth a look

APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full-Text Full Text
Provides online access to full-text articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1995.
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Cochrane Library Full Text
Covers evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health care. Also indexed in CINAHL and Medline.

Emerald
A collection of over 190 peer-reviewed journals in management and related disciplines.
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Health management and quality assurance are two areas in which Emerald is strong.

Family & Society PLUS Selected Full Text
Covers research, policy and practice issues about Australian families including child abuse and child protection issues.

JBI Institute Full Text
JBI Institute provides a range of resources in the field of evidence-based medicine.

Psychiatry Online Full Text
Psychiatry online includes access to the full-text of five peer-reviewed journals published by the American Psychiatric Association, the newsletter Psychiatric News, DSM-IV-TR, DSM-IV-TR® Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and its Treatment Companion, and the other psychiatric text books produced by the Association.

PubMed Selected Full Text
PubMed provides access to over 15 million MEDLINE citations dating back to the mid-1960s.
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RURAL: Rural and Remote Health
Covers related issues and care, and the practice and educational needs of health providers.

Social Services Abstracts Selected Full Text
Covers current research on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
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Sociological Abstracts Selected Full Text
International coverage of sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied.
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TOXLINE
TOXLINE offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. The index abstracts journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. CSA's TOXLINE is a 'rolling 5-year' index, consisting of records from the last 5 years plus the current year.
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ScienceDirect Full Text
Access 227 Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect platform.
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SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Taylor & Francis SSH Full Text
Access journals in the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
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Web of Science
Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes cited reference searching.
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Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Link to Rural Medical School databases

A number of additional specialised clinical databases are listed on the Research Guide for Rural Medicine page. Click here to see this listing with live links and database descriptions.

Assignment help

HS 265 Research Methods in Health

Guide to using CINAHL
Guide to using MEDLINE on PubMed

HS 413 Foundations of herbalism

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Gale Virtual Reference Library titles relevant to health include:

Encyclopedia of Aging
Encyclopedia of Pain
Encyclopedia of Public Health
Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health
Handbook of Death and Dying
Infectious Diseases in Context
World of Microbiology and Immunology

Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.

SAGE eReference
SAGE eReference is a database of multidisciplinary encyclopedias.

Among the useful Sage reference titles are: Encyclopedia of Cancer, Encyclopedia of Counseling, Encyclopedia of Health & Aging, Encyclopedia of Global Health, Encyclopedia of Obesity and Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Click the link for more titles.

Drug information

Select from a list of recommended databases providing information on drugs.

High impact journals

The following Nursing journals are held at UNE and have a high ranking in Journal Citation Reports and ERA's listings for Nursing: (For Counselling journals see the ERA Psychology listing.)

Advances in Nursing Science in paper at call number P610.73/A617 1980-2001
American Journal of Nursing in paper at call number P610.73/A512 1975- 1900-2000
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing in paper at call number P610.7368/A673 1996-2008, 1995-
Critical Care Medicine 1998-
International Journal of Nursing Practice in paper at call number P610.73/I612 1999- 1999-
Journal of Advanced Nursing in paper at call number P610.73/J861 from 1978- and 2006-
Journal of Clinical Nursing in paper at call number P610.73/J862 from 1994- 2008-
Journal of Midwifery & Womens Health in paper at call number P618.6/J86 1984-2005 2001-
Journal of Nursing Education in paper at call number P610.7307/J86 1975-2002, 1997-
Journal of Vascular Nursing 2003-
Journal of Nursing Scholarship in paper at call number P610.73/I31 2000- 1998-
Maternal and Child Health Journal 1997-
Midwifery in paper at call number P618.2/M629 1993-2005
Nursing Outlook in paper at call number P610.73/N9747 1975- 1995-
Nursing Research in paper at call number P610.73072/N974 1976-
Qualitative Health Research in paper at call number P362.1072/Q1 1994- 1999-
Research in Nursing and Health in paper at call number P610.73/R432 1985-2004 and electronic via Wiley Interscience

Websites & Internet resources

Statistical sources

Australian Bureau of Statistics — online access to all ABS publications from 1998.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare — for health and welfare statistics and information, many publications available in .pdf format.
WHO Statistical Information System — WHOSIS world health statistics.
National Center for Health Statistics — link to US Health statistics.

Texts and images

Atlas of the Body — anatomy and medical illustrations by major section from the American Medical Association.
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body — full-text version of the 1918 edition.
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
The Merck Manual Of Geriatrics — full-text, searchable title (updated, 3rd edition, 2000)
Public Health Image Library — free images to download.
Virtual Pediatric Hospital — Digital health sciences library with full text resources.

General health resources

Ageline — a gerontology database with an online thesaurus, provides journal summaries.
Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet Bibliography Maintained at Edith Cowan University, provides references to reports, journal articles and other literature. Click on 'Resources'.
Australian Medical Websites A comprehensive listing of Australian medical websites.
NLM Gateway Access the resources of the National Library of Medicine, including searching MEDLINE/PubMed, through a single gateway.
Biomed Central Links to several hundred internet health journals.
Effective Health Care Bulletins York University bulletins online.
FreeMedicalJournals.com A website providing access to free medical journals on the Internet.
Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice — indexed in CINAHL
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Sites A series of links maintained by the Doctors Reform Society of Australia.
AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality US generated news, reports and other information aimed at both consumers and health care providers.
NHMRC - permits downloading of many NHMRC publications in .pdf format.
National Rural Health Alliance Inc. provides links to conference papers, journals, data and information on rural health matters in Australia and overseas.
NSW Health Department Publications, information, medical releases, factsheets and job opportunities.
World Health Organization includes access to WHOSIS - statistical information worldwide, the WHO library catalogue and some reports.

Programme-related links

Complementary & Herbal Medicine
HerbMed Interactive, electronic herbal database with hyperlinked access to scientifc data underlying the use of herbs for health. Evidence based with links to Medline.
Hom-inform Website of the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital, including the Hom-inform database on homeopathy, a thesaurus of relevant terms and pdf documents to download.
Longwood Herbal Taskforce Information about herbal medicine for both clinicians and patients, compiled by a team of experts using a systematic review process.
Taubman Medical Library Homeopathy Collection - searchable database with full text homeopathic monographs and pamphlets dating from the mid 19th Century.

Counselling
Child abuse child welfare and adoption — produced by the US National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption. Has data from 1965. Access is free upon registration. Click Products on the page displayed.
Counselling Services for Parents and Children A state by state listing compiled by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.

Health management
Centre for Health Economics Established at York University in 1983, contains publications and research information.
International Digest of Health Legislation - health management oriented, includes Australian legislation with links to other websites.

Nursing
The Nursing Portal - links to 6000+ nursing related sites.

Consumer health and medicine
The Health Network Australian and New Zealand consumer health site.
Health Insite sponsored by the Australian government.

Evaluating health sites & Online Tutorials
Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
Guidelines Maintained by Biome for UK universities.
McGill University's Neuro-Patient Resource Centre
Discern A questionnaire aimed at consumers that permits systematic evaluation of sites.
eSkills Learn at your own pace the basics of information literacy.
Internet Medic Teach yourself about Internet resources for the medical sciences.