General Health Sciences
The resources guide to Public Health (for BHS students and others) is available here
Last updated May 2012 by Mick Draper
Advice For Students
MBBS students should contact Mick Draper for help finding information.
Advice on individual assignments is usually found on the web site of the Discipline concerned. (see below)
Uni of Adelaide Undergraduate Student Online Resources
Anatomy tv Click on the link then on the Resources tab to get access to Anatomy tv. Interactive human anatomy to view multiple layers from skin to skeleton. Includes quizzes.
Australian Medicines Handbook Online access to information on drugs approved for use in Australia
BestPractice Latest research, evidence, and expert opinion on a range of common conditions
Diagnose.org Acollection of sites that cover most areas of medicine and include tutorials, quizzes, arcade games, blogs, etc. Produced by UK students to help other students.
Harrison's online Harrison's principles of internal medicine online. University of Adelaide users only.
MBBS I Indeigenous Health Assignment (see Undergraduate Tutorials below)
MDConsult Searches clinical ebooks, ejournals, review journals, a drugs database, news, practice
guidelines, patient handouts, and cases. Books include
- Gray's Anatomy for Students, 2nd ed. 2010
- Textbook of Medical Physiology, 12th ed. 2010
- Wheater's Functional Histology, 5th ed. 2006
Stat!Ref Search across 11 online med texts. Click on link then on Titles to see the book titles available.
UpToDate Provides information on diagnosis, treatment, prognosis etc on a wide range of medical conditions. Evidence based.
Uni of Adelaide Faculty of Health Sciences Undergraduate Tutorials
Medicine Web Sites
There are thousands of medical sites on the internet, with many new sites added each week. Sites listed below are those that have links to a large number of sites using search engines or indexes.
- DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals Search for specific journal titles or browse by topic.
- eMedicine Includes Differential Diagnoses & Workup, Treatment & Medication, Follow-up, Procedures and Techniques etc for a wide range of disciplines (not Dental Surgery)
- Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources Called a Meta directory because it is a list of links to sites that have links to other sites. From Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa
- Health Insite Consumer level information from a category list or search engine. From The Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.
- Health on the Net This database has access to many documents, definitions, illustrations etc. Includes a search engine. From Health On the Net Foundation.
- Intute: Health & Life Sciences Search for information on all aspects of health and life sciences. No new material after July 2011.
- List of Medical Wikis Info on a range of medical topics. Each wiki comes with a description, intended audience, who can contribute, and editorial policies. Compiled by David Rothman.
- Martindale's Health Science Guide Teaching files, case studies, movies, glossaries, sites by disease or discipline. By Jim Martindale
- Medlinks Best medical sites on the internet according to Stanford University Medical Center.
- Medpedia An edited medical encyclopaedia with articles produced by medical doctors or those with a PhD in a biomedical field.
- World Health Organization Home Page Includes summaries and figures from World Health Reports, contacts, mission statements, policies etc.
Online Dictionaries
Australian Sites
Directories
Organisations
Other Australian Sites
Clinical Toxinology Resources Toxinology information from around the world covering venonous and poisonous animals, plants and mushrooms. From University of Adelaide Dept of Paediatrics.
Lowitja Institute Newsletters Includes Lowitja e-Bulletin. The newsletters cover information on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research.
Conferences
Foreign Cultures and Health
Ethnomed Home Cultural aspects of various groups and how this might impinge on consultation and treatment. From University of Washington & Harborview Medical Center.
US Office of Minority Health
Evidence Based Practice
Databases for finding Journal Articles
MEDLINE
- Medline from Ovid Uni of Adelaide community only
Medline from Web of Knowledge Uni of Adelaide community only
- MedlinePlus A consumer database that includes a list of more than 600 of medical topics to search, drug info, a medical distionary, and a medical encyclopaedia. From U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- NLM Gateway Provides simultaneous searching in MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE.
- PubMed A fast, free version of Medline with links to some full text journals.
- Basic PubMed Tutorial with added info on how to Import to EndNote From Barr Smith Library
- PubMed Tutorial from National Library of Medicine. How to use PubMed efficiently.
Journal Title Abbreviations
Open Access Journals
Biomed Central Some free journals, meeting abstracts.
freemedicaljournals.com Free medical journals
Hindawi Publishing Corporation More than 200 open access journals many of them in the biological and medical sciences.
Highwire Press Includes some journals which are free to all.
PLOS Public Library of Science Includes 7 open access journals
PubMed Central A free journal archive.
Publication Aids
Citation Linker Enter details of the item you want and the linker will try to find the full text for you through University of Adelaide Library. Uni of Adelaide community only.
Journal Ranking
- Journal Citation Reports This ISI Web of Knowledge resource includes the defacto standard for journal impact factor.
- SCImago Journal & Country Rank This site allows users to view journals indexed by Scopus using the SJR indicator for ranking scholarly journals. Also ompares journals, and countries.
- Scopus Journal Analyser Uses SJR and SNP to evaluate and compare journals. View the tutorial before trying this. Uni of Adelaide community and walk in users only.
Other Barr Smith Library Resource Guides
Finding Authors and Affiliations
Cancer sources for public users outside and inside The University of Adelaide Library
School of Population Health and Clinical Practice Databases Tutorial
FoodPlus Database Demonstration May 2011
Maureen Bell's Homepage
Mick Draper's Homepage
Univeristy of Adelaide Faculty of Health Sciences This page was produced by Mick Draper
Mick Draper is the Research Librarian for the following disciplines in the Faculty of Health Sciences: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Anatomical Sciences, Dentistry, General Practice, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Orthopaedics and Trauma, Paediatrics, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Surgery.
Maureen Bell is the Research Librarian for Clinical Nursing, Mental Health/Psychiatry, Psychology and Public Health.
Email to: Maureen Bell Email to compiler: Mick Draper
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