Human Biology & Physiology

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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 Selected Full Text
CINAHL meets the information needs of nurses and allied health professionals.

Cochrane Library Full Text
The Cochrane Library covers evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health care.

Health Collection Full Text
The Health Collection includes research articles, reports and case studies dealing with health in Australia.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.

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.

SAGE Premier Full Text
SAGE Premier includes 550+ titles in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine with full-text back to 1999.
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ScienceDirect Full Text
Science Direct offers full-text access to over 200 Elsevier journals.

SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Wiley Online Library Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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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. ProQuest Help

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 Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

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Lange Educational Library Full Text
The Library provides 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. ProQuest Help

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 eReference - search Health & Social Welfare encyclopedias
Thieme Electronic Book Library Select from many Colour Atlases in Physiology, Hematology, Pathology, Anatomy, Biochemistry.

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

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)
Nature Precedings - pre-publication research and preliminary findings.
ScienceResearch.com - accelerates your research by returning relevant results from over 300 authoritative science and technology collections.
ScientificCommons.org - aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet.
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.

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 full-color medical illustrations and animations depicting human anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, and other topics.