Electronic Databases for Mental Health

Bibliographies and Reading Lists -
lists of mental health journal articles from the PubMed database, arranged alphabetically by subject.

Mental Health Resources by Topic

PubMed - includes links to tutorials and notes on how to search

Dial Up Access to Databases

Databases of Particular Interest for Mental Health

Searching the web

There will be times when you'd like to find government documents, or other information on the web. This is when Google is your best option, but make sure you use it effectively!! Try Four Nets for Better Searching for some easy to follow, simple advice.

Australian Databases

ATSIROM : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander CD-ROM
This collection of Australian database subsets indexes materials on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander concerns in education, law, public affairs, health, literature, criminology, family and society, culture and heritage, multiculturalism.

AEI-ATSIS on ATSIROM : (Australian Education Index ATSI subset)
AGIS-ATSIS on ATSIROM
APAIS-ATSIS on ATSIROM : (Australian Public Affairs Information Service ATSI subset)
MAIS-ATSIS on ATSIROM : (Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies ATSI subset)
AUSTLIT-ATSIS on ATSIROM : (Australian Literary Database ATSI subset)
FAMILY-ATSIS on ATSIROM : (Australian Family & Society Abstracts Database ATSI subset)
HERA-ATSIS on ATSIROM : (Heritage Australia Information System ATSI subset)
CINCH-ATSIS on ATSIROM : (Australian Criminology Database ATSI subset)
ATSIhealth-ATSIS on ATSIROM : (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health)

AustHealth
A collection of major Australian health databases covering medical journals of Australia, health of indigenous people, rural health and material in the social, political and economic arenas.
Databases included are:

AMI - Australasian Medical Index
Bibliographic database which indexes and abstracts articles from Australian health and medical journals which are not indexed in Medline. It covers all aspects of health and medicine with an emphasis on clinical medicine and paraprofessional fields. Includes journals, conference proceedings, government reports, selected monographs and the full text of most NHMRC sessions. AMI does not contain records for Australian material already in the Medline database.
Time span: 1968 -

Meditext
This database contains the same information as AMI - Australasian Medical Index, but it also contains full text for a number of publications for which there is no other full text online source available.

APAIS - Health
This is a subset of the APAIS (Australian Public Affairs Information Service) database, covering health and medicine in Australia. It covers legal, social, economic and ethical aspects of health. Clinical articles are not indexed.
Time span: 1978 -

ATSIhealth (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Bibliography)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Bibliography indexes published and unpublished material on indigenous health. It includes journal articles, theses, unpublished articles, government reports, conference papers, abstracts, books, book chapters, discussion and working papers and statistical documents. Records are not exhaustive and relate to health status rather than to social, historical, political or monetary aspects.
Time span: 1988 -

AusportMed Australian Sports Medicine
Indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on health,medicine, biomechanics, psychology, diagnosis, treatment, nutrition,physiology, fitness, drugs in sport and other aspects of medicine and health issues in sport. Indexes journal articles, monographs, conference papers, government reports, theses, videotapes and audiocassettes.
Time span: 1989 -

CINCH-Health
Health Issues in Criminal Justice (CINCH-Health), is a subset of CINCH, the Australian Criminology Database. CINCH, produced by the JV Barry Library at the Australian Institute of Criminology, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts items from published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime and criminal justice. Source documents include Australian material from journal articles, monographs, monograph chapters and conference papers. Subject coverage includes mental health, medical and medicolegal issues, drugs and alcohol, suicide, HIV/AIDS, corrections health, euthanasia, and occupational health and safety.
Time span: 1989 -

DRUG
Drug Database (DRUG), produced by the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia (ADCA) is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from published and unpublished materials on the psychosocial aspects of substance abuse.
Time span: 1974 -

Health & Society
A subset of the FAMILY database, covering health policy, services, social, ethical, psychological, and legal issues connected with health and of importance to Australians and their families. Includes health and wellbeing of families and individuals, quality of life, morbidity, mortality, life expectancy, mental health, health issues of concern to particular groups such as the aged, children, youth, Aboriginals. Also covers health promotion, education and administration and ethical issues connected with pregnancy, birth, abortion, death and reproductive medicine.
Time span: 1980 -

Meditext - see under AMI

RURAL (Rural and Remote Health Database)
The Rural and Remote Health Database (RURAL) is produced by the Monash University School of Rural Health, and is made up of seven separate smaller databases all of which are searched together.
Timespan: 1966+

Databases included are:
Database 1: Education for Rural Medical Practice: Goals and Opportunities. Edited by Dr James T. B. Rourke.
Database 2: Indigenous Peoples' Health: Issues and Care in Rural and Remote Areas of the world. Edited by Dr Sandra Meihubers.
Database 3: Rural and Remote Area Nursing. Edited by Julie Webb-Pullman.
Database 4: Rural and Remote Health Care. Edited by Anna Nichols.
Database 5: Rural and Remote Area Aged Care. Edited by Anske Robinson.
Database 6: Promoting Rural Mens Health. Edited by Robert H. Hall and Anske Robinson.
Database 7: Rural and Remote Area Health Care: 1996+. Edited by Anske Robinson..

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.

AUSTROM
Contents: Thirteen Australian databases, mostly bibliographic, including indexes to journals, books, newspaper articles, reports, theses and manuscripts, conference proceedings and audio-visual material. Subjects covered include law, criminology, education, architecture, sport, leisure, recreation, psychology, economics and health issues relating particularly to Australia.
Below are details of some of the databases of interest for mental health.

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

HealthMap (A Social Health Atlas of South Australia, 2nd ed. 1996)
Access is available only within the Library - it is not networked
Aims to provide health services with the best possible information to assist their work, by publishing a large range of information in map format. Provides an overview of the health status and patterns of use of health and welfare services in different areas of the state, in the context of socio-economic status. The atlas contains maps categorised under the broad headings of:
Demography and socioeconomic status
Income Support payments
Health status
Utilisation of health and welfare services
Location of health and welfare services

Notes on how to use HealthMap are available here (pdf 206kB) as a .pdf file

HealthWIZ
Access is available only within the Library - it is not networked
Consists of statistical data held in the National Social Health Database which can be used to understand and describe characteristics of local populations, analyse patterns and trends in the use of local health services, establish patterns of health and illness at a local level, discover geographic variations in health related characteristics of populations, and demonstrate links between health, service use and socio-economic factors relating to health. It is intended for use by workers in the fields of community health and welfare, planners, advocates, researchers, educators, and students.

Heaps: Health Education and Promotion System
The Heaps website contains a database listing of Australian and New Zealand health promotion projects. The database contains over 6,000 entries covering a wide range of health promotion activity including programs for: indigenous Australians; rural and regional Australia; youth; ethnic communities; women's health; and general practice.

International Databases

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 -

A current listing of the journals covered by Academic OneFile, and full text availability is here.

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.

BIOSIS Previews
BIOSIS Previews is the world’s most comprehensive reference database for life science research. It covers original research reports and reviews in traditional biological and biomedical areas. It also covers references to primary journal literature on vital biological research, medical research findings, and discoveries of new organisms.
Time span: 1980 -

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 Collaboration currently consists of two unique databases:

The C2 Register of Interventions and Policy Evaluations (C2-RIPE)
The C2 Social, Psychological, Education, and Criminological Trials Registry (C2-SPECTR)

CINAHL
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.
Abstracts are included from approximately 50% of the journals, nursing dissertations, educational software and audiovisuals.
Time span: 1983 -
Pre-CINAHL is also available. A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which is available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.

Basic help for searching CINAHL is here

Cochrane Library
Cochrane Library provides rapid access to high quality information about the effects of health care. It consists of a number of databases, and these are described in detail at the National Institute of Clinical Studies site. There is a useful NICS Guide to the Cochrane Library which explains the purpose of the Cochrane Library, and how to search it.
You'll also find some background notes on the Cochrane Library and Evidence Based Medicine on my public health page.

CSA 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. Many records from key journals in sociology, published since 2001, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference; these links increase the possibility of finding more potentially relevant articles.
Time span: 1952 -

For a list of journals included in CSA Sociological Abstracts you can use Serials Source List for CSA Sociological Abstracts

Current Contents
see
ISI Current Contents Connect

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 -

Index to Theses (Remote access not available to mental health staff)
A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.

ISI Current Contents Connect
Current Contents Connect is a weekly table-of-contents database which presents the contents pages of current issues of the world's scholarly and technical journals, books, and proceedings literature. It is the best database for very recent articles, and has a useful email alert function.
Time span: 1998 -
Help is available from Current Contents Connect Quick Reference Card , and Current Contents Connect Tutorial

ISI Web of Knowledge (Remote access not available to mental health staff)
ISI Web of Knowledge allows you to cross-search multiple resources simultaneously. Its resources include CAB Abstracts, Biosis Previews, Current Contents Connect, Inspec, Zoological Record, and Web of Science, as well as a version of Medline.

MDConsult
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
see
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.

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.
Time span: 1802 - 1995
For search tips click here

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Remote access not available to mental health staff)
Citations and abstracts to doctoral dissertations submitted to accredited North American institutions and some other international institutions.
Time span: 1861 -

There is a special section of the library's web site which provides information on locating both University of Adelaide theses and theses from other universities by using the Library catalogue, relevant databases and web sites, and the Interlibrary loans service.

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.

To check which journals are included in PsycARTICLES you can use the PsycARTICLES Coverage List

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).

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.

To check which journals are included in PsycINFO you can use the PsycINFO Journal Coverage List

Basic help for searching PsycINFO is here
The American Psychological Association has detailed Search Guides for PsycINFO for a variety of platforms including EBSCO.

PubMed (University of Adelaide Customised Version)
Records in the version of PubMed customised for the University of Adelaide have a 'University of Adelaide Online' button - which will allow access to the many thousands of online journal articles available to Adelaide users. You will need to use the link above or the Library's catalogue to access this version.

Notes and tutorials on how to use PubMed can be found here
Detailed notes on searching for evidence based material on PubMed are here.
Instructions for importing references from PubMed into EndNote are here
Click here for a video demonstration

Science Citation Index
see
Web of Science

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.

Social Sciences Citation Index
see
Web of Science

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 -

Consult the Social Services Abstracts - Current Serials Source List to see which journals are included in the database.

Sociological Abstracts
see
CSA Sociological Abstracts

Web of Knowledge
see
ISI Web of Knowledge

Web of Science (Remote access not available to mental health staff)
Web of Science is useful for finding articles which have cited a given article, and which should therefore be on a similar topic.
It includes:-
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)
Time span: 1980-
Help for searching Web of Science is at Web of Science Tutorial, and Web of Science Quick Reference Card

Publishers' Web Sites

Blackwell-Synergy

Cambridge Journals Online

Oxford Journals Online

SAGE Journals Online

Science Direct
Contains the full text of journals published by Elsevier Science in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.

SpringerLink

Taylor & Francis Online Journals

Wiley Interscience

CrossRef search - searches full text from several publishers.