| Database | Details | Strengths |
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| Academic Onefile | Useful database with full-text coverage in areas such as physical sciences, technology, medicine, & social sciences. | General database Multidisciplinary |
Academic Search Premier
| Useful database with broad coverage across most academic areas. | General database Multidisciplinary |
| AIDSinfo | HIV and AIDS treatment and prevention guidelines, and prevention of HIV transmission. Includes AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service. Search for clinical trials, drugs or vaccines. From U.S. Dept of Health and Human services | AIDS research |
Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT)
| An Australian database covering citations (from 1978 onwards) and some full text (from 1995 onwards), focusing predominantly on social sciences, and
scientific topics of public interest. Clinical articles
not indexed. | Australian Public interest focus (rather than clinical) |
| CINAHL with full text | CINAHL with Full Text is the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for nearly 600 journals | Nursing & allied health
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Cochrane Library
| Reviews of published and unpublished clinical trials. This is the premier database for evidence based practice. | Evidence-based medicine Clinical trials |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | Useful database with full-text coverage ranging from academic to general sources. Some coverage of medicine and life
sciences. | General database Multidisciplinary |
FAMILY
Australian Family & Society Abstracts
| Contains references to books,
journal articles, government documents etc. Includes material on sexual
behaviour, fertility & counselling. From 1980- | Australian |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition | Search across nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. | Nursing & allied health
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Informit Health
(formerly AustHealth) | A full text allied health and nursing database providing cover-to-cover full text access to core content from the Australasian region. Content includes research articles, reports and case studies of practical support to those studying or working in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health roles. Full text publications: 1977- ; Index: 1977- NOTE: You can also search across a range of additional Health related databases within Informit. Once in Informit, click on change databases, scroll down to the section labelled health, select the checkbox and click continue. ... By doing this you're now searching a range of different databases including AMI, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Bibliography, AusportMed, Drug,
Health & Society, HIVA - HIV/AIDS | Australian Nursing & allied health |
| Journal citation reports | Impact factors and other statistics about major journals. | Impact factors Journal bibliometrics |
| NLM Gateway | Search
across multiple National Library of Medicine (NLM), USA, resources including: PubMed, DIRLINE, Toxline, Space Life Sciences Meetings, and
HSRProj (research projects in progress). | Search across multiple NLM resources simultaneously
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| OMIM | Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. A human genetics database on the web. | Human genes Genetic disorders |
| PsycINFO | Covers all aspects of psychology.
| Psychology Allied health |
| Toxline | Toxicology bibliographic information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine | Toxicology |
Zoological Record
| Comprehensive coverage of zoological topics
including peer reviewed and popular literature. Includes humans as
hosts for animals, anthropological aspects of zoology, and evolution.
| Zoology Evolution |
Major online collections
| Search across collections of online books and journals
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| BioMed Central | Search across a range of open access journals covering many aspects of life sciences and health sciences. | Health sciences and physiology journals
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| Cambridge Journals Online | Search across full text online journals from Cambridge University Press
| Includes health sciences and physiology journals |
| Wiley (including Blackwell Synergy) | Search across full text online journals and books from Wiley (and also Blackwell Synergy) | Includes health sciences and physiology journals |
| Oxford Journals | Search across full text life sciences, biology & medicine journals of the Oxford University Press. Many of the journals have extensive archives | Includes health sciences and physiology journals |
| ScienceDirect | Search the range of Elsevier journals in full text. Many journals in the areas of medicine and life sciences. | Includes health sciences and physiology journals |
SpringerLink
| Search Springer's range of online journals and books.
| Includes health sciences and physiology journals |
