Mental Health and Psychiatry Internet Resources

Last update: 1 March, 2013,
by Maureen Bell

These web pages are intended to provide some links to quality mental health sites on the World Wide Web, and to save you time in locating useful material. If you have any problems with the links not working, comments, or suggestions for improvements just send me an email message

The Discipline of Psychiatry also has a web site which provides information on its research interests and teaching activities.

Navigation

At the top of this page you'll see a series of links to other library features, including the Catalogue, Resource Guides (for other subject areas), and the Library A to Z, which will allow you to find all sorts of information, from hours of opening, to borrowing rules.

To navigate the pages in the mental health section use the Quick Links box on the right.

To find individual documents or links within the mental health pages use the Google Custom Search

Almost all of the material listed here is freely available. Journals and databases restricted to the University's staff and students, and mental health library members, are password protected. Mental Health library members are entitled to a range of additional services and these are descibed in the Schedule of Services .

We produce a free bimonthly electronic newsletter to keep you up to date with new mental health links on our site, and new books in mental health purchased for the library - you don't have to be a library member to join our list.

Available free on our site is A Biography of Psychiatry: The Story of Events and the People Involved in the Development of Services for the Psychiatrically Ill in South Australia 1939-1989, a book by W. A. Dibden.
We also have an extensive collection of printed books on the history of psychiatry and mental health services in South Australia

You'll find a considerable amount of government report literature available free on the web, and the publishers of many journals make full text available free after 6 or 12 months.
PubMed the National Library of Medicine's free version of Medline is another invaluable resource.