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Key databases

Annual Reviews Online (ANO) Full Text
ANO provides a comprehensive series of full-text reviews in biomedical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences.

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

Cochrane Library Full Text
Covers evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health care. Also indexed in CINAHL and Medline.

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.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

PubMed Central (PMC) Selected Full Text
PubMed Central is a digital archive of journal literature on the life sciences.

PubMed Selected Full Text
PubMed provides access to over 15 million MEDLINE citations dating back to the mid-1960s.
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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.
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Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Worth a look

Biological Abstracts
Research literature in a broad array of subjects related to biology and the life sciences. Please note that our subscription covers 1998 to 2001 only.

Biological Sciences Selected Full Text
This database covers research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology,ecology, and specific aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.

BIOSCIENCEnetBASE Full Text
BIOSCIENCEnetBASE contains the full text of books on topics such as bioengineering, genomics, tissue engineering, biofuels, nanotechnology, drug delivery, and immunology.

Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
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Lange Educational Library Full Text
The Lange Educational Library provides full text access to a range of texts in pharmacology, microbiology, physiology, epidemiology and pathology. It also includes a self-review tool and 50 clinical case files to test your knowledge.
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MEDLINE at PubMed
PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine. It includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
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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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Web of Science
Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes cited reference searching. 
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Chinese Medicine A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References.
Dictionary of Biomedical Sciences
Drug Abuse Handbook
Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics
Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases
Handbook of Pathophysiology
Illustrated Dictionary of Immunology
Medicine, Health and Bioethics
Oxford Reference Online - search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject. Titles include Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Oxford Companion to the Body, and 9 titles under the subject Medicine.
Sage - search Health & Social Welfare encyclopedias
Thieme Electronic Book Library Select from many Colour Atlases in Physiology, Hematology, Pathology, Anatomy, Biochemistry.

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Recommended journals

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology  1 year delay
Annual Review of Biochemistry
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
Annual Review of Physiology
Cell
Development
Developmental Cell
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Journal of Cellular Physiology
Journal of General Physiology
Journal of Physiology
Physiological Reviews 1 year delay
Physiology 1 year delay
PLoS Biology

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Web sites and Internet resources

Australasian Society for Human Biology
Australian Medical Council (AMC)
Australian Physiological Society
Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
Australian Society for Biophysics
Australian Society for Medical Research
Australian Society for Microbiology
AuthorMapper - searches journal articles and maps the location of authors. 
BioMed Central - open access to 196 peer-reviews journals
CSIRO Biotechnology
Human Genetics Society of Australia
John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR)
Society for the Study of Human Biology
Vadlo - a search engine for biology/biomedical scientists, educators, clinicians and librarians. Find powerpoint lectures, laboratory methods, seminars.
Virology on the WWW
Wolfram Alpha
- a new kind of knowledge-based computing. Enter your question and WA computes the answer.

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Multimedia and images

Cells Alive - A visual tour of cells, bacteria, viruses and their interaction with one another .

SMART Imagebase
The Scientific & Medical ART (SMART) Imagebase is a collection of more than 11,000 high quality, full-color medical illustrations and animations depicting human anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma,embryology, histology, and other medical and health-related topics.

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Related guides

Biology
Health
Forensic Science
Rural Medicine

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