Anatomical Sciences Resources

Last update July 2008 by Mick Draper  

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Sources for finding  JOURNAL ARTICLES

University of Adelaide Library Information sources for finding journal articles

MEDLINE

• Medline from ScienceDirect For Uni of Adelaide community. Includes an alert service. No explosion.
• Medline from Web of Knowledge Can be used in Cross Search with other databases. Should include explosion. Not as up to date as PubMed
• 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.
  • Uni of Adelaide PubMed tutorial Covers the main points of searching PubMed.
  • Uni of Adelaide basic PubMed tutorial including importing citations to EndNote.
  • PubMed Tutorial from National Library of Medicine. How to use PubMed efficiently.

Journal Title Abbreviations

• Journals in Index Medicus DOS text or WordPerfect 6.1 listings of the journals indexed by abbreviated title, full title, subject, and country of publication
• U.S. National Library of Medicine Journals Database Enter an abbreviated title and get the full title for a journal

Library PubMed and EndNote Tutorial A basic PubMed tutorial based on the National Library of Medicine Tutorial plus how to save to EndNote and use that software to assist in writing articles, and theses. Includes links to

PubMed Searches on The University of Adelaide Discipline of Anatomical Sciences Research Areas
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General Anatomy Sites

• an@tomy tv 
  Interactive Human Anatomy Uni of Adelaide community only. Click on link, then on the Resources tab, and then on the Anatomy.tv icon or link. The online graphics and text includes several layers, rotation, etc.
• Anatomy atlases
  Anatomy information for med students. Includes several online books with images, text and sound.
• Anatomy interactive Human Gross Anatomy
  A compilation of anatomy links
• bioanatomy 
  A compilation of sites, including teaching material, products, publications and images.
• Get Body Smart.com An animated site showing anatomy of various systems, tutorials, and quizzes. From Scott Sheffield
• Human anatomy online Graphics and some text on the body systems From MyHealthScore.com
• Intute:Health and Life Sciences Anatomy
  A compilation of anatomy sites
• Intute: Health and Life Sciences Embryology
  A compilation of embryology sites including animations
• Primate Info Net 
  From Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center University of Wisconsin - Madison
• The "Virtual" - Medical Center Anatomy & Histology Center

 

Uni of Adelaide Undergraduate Student Online Resources

• Anatomy tv Click on link, then on the Resources tab, and then on the Anatomy.tv icon or link. The online graphics and text includes several layers, rotation, etc. Interactive human anatomy to view multiple layers. Includes quizzes.
• Australian Medicines Handbook Online access to information on drugs approved for use in Australia
• Harrison's online Harrison's principles of internal medicine online. University of Adelaide users only.
• MDConsult Searches clinical ebooks, ejournals, review journals, a drugs database, news, practice guidelines, patient handouts, and cases on a wide area of clinic medicine from specific tabs or from a single search engine.
• Stat!Ref 8 online med texts. Click on Table of contents to see the books available.

Animal Dentition

Click here for compilation of sites that covers fish to mammals

Blood Brain Barrier

• Blood Brain Barrier  
  Definitions, short essays and links to other sites from Answers.com 

Cell Biology

UNSW Cell Biology 
A beginning set of notes on cell biology from Mark Hill Uni of NSW

UNSW Embryology
More notes for beginners by Mark Hill of Uni of NSW

Fingerprints and Dermatoglyphics

• The History of Fingerprints 
Site is associated with US Army Criminal Investigation Command
• Dactyloscopy The Science of Fingerprinting 
From The Thin Blue Line Information Section, NSW Police
 

Forensic Anthropology

Osteology

• Human Osteology  Basic site on human bones and anthropometric devices 
• Osteology Chapter from book by Henry Grey (1918) Anatomy of the human body
  

Human Evolution

• Becoming Human 

Includes news, a glossary, links to other sites, bibliographies and essays. From The Institute of Human Origins
• Human Evolution 

A compilation of sites from the Google search engine
• Internet resources for Anthropometry 

A compilation of sites by Uni of South Australia Library
• Modern Human Variation 

An online tutorial by Dennis O'Neil, Ph.D. Palomar College San Marcos, California
• Physical Anthropology Web Resources 

Web links to evolution, growth and development, human and molecular genetics, palaeoanthropology, primate studies, and skeletal and forensic anthropology. From Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology

Sizing

• Caesar Project Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resource 
• 3-D Landmarks 
  Landmarks for Automatic landmark recognition
• Electronic 3-D Scans 
  How scanners are used to produce 3-D images
• Univariate Measurements 
  36 Landmarks used to measure humans 

SizeUK

• SizeUK home page 
UK National Sizing Survey includes an email for buying survey results.
• Scanner Benchmarking for SizeUK 
Article on the methodology of the 3D whole-body acquisition systems used.

Palaeopathology

Paleopathology Research Laboratory Virginia Commonwealth University Has case studies

Animal palaeopathology

• The Palæopathology of Horse Husbandry Information on a project by Dr M.A. Levine of Department of Archaeology, University of Newcastle
  
  

Reproductive Biology

• FishBase 

An excellent database with many species. Includes info and refs on reproduction. From The WorldFish Center and other collaborators
• Sea Urchin Embryology 

High school or early undergrad level teaching material From Stanford University
• UNSW Embryology 

Lots of notes on embryology. Mostly human but other animals included. By Mark Hill Uni of NSW
• Welcome to the Marsupials 

Info on this group including a little on reproduction from The Natural History Collections of the Uni of Edinburgh

Publication Aids

• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences Instructions from a long list of health sciences journals. From University of Toledo (USA)
• Publishing in the Life Sciences Covers selecting a journal, and manuscript preparation. From McGill University

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.

Structural Cell Biology assignment seminar July 2008
Notes on using PubMed

The University of Adelaide Faculty of Health Sciences

Anatomical Sciences at The University of Adelaide

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