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Electronic Databases for Mental Health
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The list is divided into broad categories - Australian and international - and then items are arranged alphabetically rather than ranked according to their relevance. The Library subscribes to databases in many other fields, and all databases are accessible through the catalogue |
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
The Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre combines Australia and
New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers & newswires,
reference books, and company information. This database provides
local perspectives on current events, business, sports, and many
other subjects. Australia/NZ Reference Centre also contains
international magazines, reference books, newspapers & newswires.
Australian Bureau of Statistics Website. Statistics Section
Everything on the ABS web site is now accessible free of charge. There's a useful "How do I?" option at the right hand side of the home page.
GrantsLINK - Your
Commonwealth community grants site
GrantsLINK makes it easier to find suitable and relevant
grants for community projects from the many Commonwealth
grants that are available.
Informit
Informit offers a wide range of databases and full content publications that deliver Australasian scholarly material published in journals, monographs, conference proceedings and other research material. Informit Plus Text databases include links to thousands of articles from hundreds of leading Australasian journals. Subject areas covered include arts, education, health, law, business, science, and humanities and social sciences.
The Informit selection of Health databases is an excellent source of Australian material - much of which is not indexed elsewhere.
Libraries
Australia The National Bibliographic Database
Libraries Australia is a web-based service for Australian libraries
and their users. It provides access to the national database of
material held in Australian libraries, known as the National
Bibliographic Database. Libraries Australia enables you to search
for an item and find out which library in Australia holds it. Use
the Help option on the
toolbar to find hints on effective searching.
To search for journals, use the Journals limit. For short titles such as Nature, use Advanced Search and change all of these to exact match or starts with. With the Advanced Search option you can restrict your search to books or journals held by libraries in South Australia.
Academic OneFile
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles in HTML and PDF format from more than 8000 journals with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects; intended primarily for academic researchers.
Time span: 1980 -
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary database, which provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Business Source Complete
Business Soure Complete
provides full text for thousands of
scholarly business journals, including full text for more than
1,000 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes
virtually all subject areas related to business.
CAIRSS for Music
This database is actually free from the Institute for Music Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio. CAIRSS for Music is a bibliographic database of research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. CAIRSS contains citations to every article published in 16 primary journals, as well as citations of selected articles from 11 secondary journals.
The Campbell Collaboration
The Campbell Collaboration collaborates closely with its sibling organization, the Cochrane Collaboration, which prepares and maintains systematic reviews of the effects of interventions in health care. The Campbell Library of Systematic Reviews provides free online access to systematic reviews in the areas of education, criminal justice and social welfare.
CINAHL with full text
Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL), is equivalent to the printed Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. It indexes English language nursing journals, as well as publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing. The primary journals from the following allied health disciplines are also included. Allied Health Disciplines, Cardiopulmonary Technology, Dental Hygiene, Emergency Services, Medical/Laboratory Technology, Medical Assistant, Medical Records, Nutrition and Dietetics ,Occupational Therapy, Optometry, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Physicians' Assistant, Podiatry, Radiologic Technology, Respiratory Technology, Social Service in Health Care, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Surgical Technology.
Publications are selectively indexed for the following fields:
Behavioral Science, Biomedicine, Consumer Health, Health Sciences Librarianship, Health Services Administration, Law & Legal Issues in Health Care.
Basic help for searching CINAHL is here
Cochrane Library
Cochrane Library provides rapid access to high quality information
about the effects of health care.
Consists chiefly of 7 databases: Cochrane database of systematic reviews; Database of abstracts of reviews of effectiveness (DARE); Cochrane central register of controlled trials (CENTRAL); Cochrane database of methodology reviews; Cochrane methodology register; Health technology assessment database (HTA); and NHS Economic evaluation database (NHS EED).
You'll find some background notes on the Cochrane Library and Evidence Based Medicine on my public health page.
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives dealing with mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works. New material is added on a regular basis and, when complete, the database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of client narratives, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material.
Counseling and Therapy in Video
Counseling and Therapy in Video "provides [a] large ... online collection of video, available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling - 400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion ... Counseling Sessions and Demonstrations include filmed footage of actual therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions, and scripted sessions designed by counseling professionals to illustrate common issues and scenarios that arise during courses of therapy ... Consultations feature experts in particular courses of therapy advising other therapists on the application of their methods ... Lectures, presentations, and interviews feature well-known therapists discussing their own work and issues affecting the larger fields of mental health and wellness."--Publisher description.
eBooks Collection (EbscoHost)
This is a large ebook collection – although not as big as Ebrary.
Ebrary (Click on the book cover image to view the ebook. Use of Ebrary Reader is not available)
Ebrary is a collection of over 50,000 electronic books selected from a wide variety of international publishers. You can search by individual titles, by subject, by author, or by publisher.
ERIC
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is
sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive
access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database
corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE)
and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). In
addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings,
government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual
media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
Health Business FullTEXT Elite
This database provides full text coverage for nearly 450 well-known
administrative journals. Health Business FullTEXT Elite provides
comprehensive journal content detailing all aspects of health care
administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care
institution management.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides over 550 scholarly full text journals
focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features abstracts
and indexing for 800 journals.
Time span: 1975 -
JBI COnNECT+
JBI COnNECT+ (Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics) provides you with access to evidence-based resources to inform your clinical decision-making.
MDConsult Aaustralia
MD Consult is designed to answer clinical questions, and to help physicians stay abreast of recent medical developments. It includes the ability to search a range of books, journals, drug information, practice guidelines, and patient information handouts.
Medline
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PubMed
OT seeker - Occupational
Therapy
OTseeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic
reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational
therapy. Trials are selected from a wide range of sources and can
be searched by keywords or diagnosis/subdiscipline (eg. mental
health).
PEDro
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
PEP: Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing
From PEP-WEB, PEP describes itself as "A fully searchable digital archive of classic psychoanalytic texts." It contains the full text of a wide range of psychoanalytic journals, as well as a number of psychoanalytic books, and the full text and editorial notes of the 24 volumes of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.
Periodicals Archive Online
Periodicals Archive Online is an online periodical archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. PAO includes full text from periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages, including some published as far back as 1802.
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES™ is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. Most APA journals now go back to Volume 1, Issue 1; the earliest journal is Psychological Review, which was started in 1894.
PsycBITE
PsycBITE is a database that catalogues studies of cognitive,
behavioural and other treatments for psychological problems and
issues occurring as a consequence of acquired brain impairment
(ABI). The types of studies contained on this database are
Systematic Reviews, Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT),
Non-Randomised Controlled Trials (non-RCT), Case Series (CS), and
Single-Case Experimental Designs (SCED).
PsycBOOKS
PsycBOOKSis a full-text database that provides electronic access to thousands of scholarly and professional titles published by APA, including recent titles in psychological and behavioral science, plus a substantial backfile of classic and historic works.
PsycCRITIQUES
PsycCRITIQUES is a full-text database with tens of thousands of book and film reviews from 1956 to the present.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO is an abstract database of psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. The fact that we are accessing it through EBSCOhost means that full text for some journals is available online. PsycINFO covers not only journals (almost all of which are peer reviewed), but also books, and book chapters.
Basic help for searching PsycINFO is here
PsycTESTS
PsycTESTS is a research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the tests and their development and administration
PubMed (University of Adelaide customised version)
PubMed comprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals. Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher web sites. For an explanation of the difference between PubMed and Medline click here
Notes and tutorials on how to use PubMed can be found here
Instructions for importing references from PubMed into EndNote are here
Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It has the broadest coverage available of scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature, including 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 international publishers.
Scopus help can be found here
Social Services Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of
current research focused on social work, human services, and
related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and
community development. The database abstracts and indexes over
1,406 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal
articles and dissertations, and citations to book
reviews.
Time span: 1980 -
Sociological Abstracts
The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
Time span: 1952 -
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