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General Medicine Subject Guide
Databases
| African Index Medicus |
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The World Health Organization and the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) have produced an international index to African health literature and information sources. Very few African health and biomedical information sources are included in the world's leading bibliographic databases and there is a wealth of untapped information in books, reports and studies from international development agencies, nongovernmental organizations and local institutions. |
| ATSIhealth - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health |
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Includes published and unpublished material on Australian Indigenous health. Source documents include theses, unpublished articles, government reports, conference papers, abstracts, book chapters, books, discussion and working papers, and statistical documents. |
| AMI - Australasian Medical Index |
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This database indexes material dealing with all aspects of health and medicine, with an emphasis on clinical medicine and para-professional fields; it covers Australian and New Zealand health and medical literature which is not included in Medline. |
| APAIS - Health |
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This subset of the APAIS database covers legal, social, economic and ethical aspects of health in Australia. |
| Clin-eguide |
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This medical decision support tool from Ovid provides evidence-based information for use at the point of care. This resource integrates fully with other UNSW-subscribed Ovid products, allowing linking through to Medline, Embase and Books@Ovid. It will be continually updated with new content. |
| Cochrane Library |
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The Cochrane Library contains the following EBM databases:
- The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Complete reviews
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness Abstracts of quality assessed systematic reviews
- The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
- The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews Complete reviews
- The Cochrane Methodology Register References
- Collaborative Review Groups
- Methods Groups
- Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA) Abstracts by INAHTA and other healthcare technology agencies
- NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED)
For UNSW staff and students outside Australia, please use the following access to Ovid databases:
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| EMBASE |
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The EMBASE family consists of three separate databases: (1) EMBASE: Excerpta Medica Database, and its subsets, (2) EMBASE Drugs and Pharmacology, and (3) EMBASE Psychiatry. Produced by Elsevier Science |
| Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office. U.S. Army, Series 1-5 |
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This historical index covers the medical literature dating from 1880 - 1961. |
| Global Health |
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Global Health brings together the resources of two international databases - the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS. Dating back to 1973, the Global Health database provides deep subject coverage of information related to human health and communicable diseases. 1973+ |
| Meditext |
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Meditext is based on the journal indexing of the database Australasian Medical Index (AMI), it includes fulltext articles on all aspects of medicine and health. |
| Medline via OVID |
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The MEDLINE database (produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine) is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. An Online tutorial for Medline is also available. |
| OLDMedline |
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The citations in Ovid OLDMEDLINE are for articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences, and allied health sciences, originally printed in hardcopy indexes published from 1951 through 1965. |
| RURAL |
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Contains 7 smaller databases dating from 1996+ :
- Education for Rural Medical Practice
- Indigenous People's Health
- Rural and Remote Area Nursing
- Rural and Remote Health Care
- Rural and Remote Area Aged Care
- Promoting Rural Men's Health
- Rural and Remote Area Health Care
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Related Databases
| Ageline |
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Database covering research in the field of Ageing (gerontology) produced by the AARP (formerly American Association of Retired Persons) Research Center. Includes health issues. |
| Ausportmed |
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Produced by the National Sport Information Centre in the Australian Sports Commission. Indexes articles on all aspects of medical and health issues in Australian sport. |
| Biomed Central |
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An alternative publishing consortium that promotes open access in scholarly fulltext electronic publishing. Fully peer reviewed. Covers research articles, hypotheses papers, case reports, debates, study protocols, methodology articles, clinical trials, current reports, meetings. |
| CAB Abstracts |
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CAB ABSTRACTS is a bibliographic database compiled by CAB INTERNATIONAL. It covers the significant research and development literature in the biological sciences, including aspects of human health, human nutrition, tropical medicine and AIDS research. |
| CINAHL |
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Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature |
| Current Contents |
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Current Contents is a multidisciplinary current awareness resource, providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. |
| Drug Database |
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Drug Database (DRUG), produced by the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia (ADCA) in Canberra, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from published and unpublished material on the psychosocial aspects of substance abuse. |
| Entrez |
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Produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Entrez provides integrated access to nucleotide and protein sequence data from >130,000 organisms, along with 3D protein structures, genomic mapping information, PubMed MEDLINE, and more. |
| Health & Society |
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Health & Society Database (H&S) is a subset of Australian Family & Society Abstracts (FAMILY), produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. FAMILY is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families. Health policy and services and the social, psychological, legal and ethical issues associated with health are of direct importance to Australian people and families, and are a core subject area of the database. |
| Journal Citation Reports |
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JCR is a resource tool for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 8,400 journals from over 3,000 publishers worldwide. |
| POPLINE |
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POPLINE focuses on particular developing-country issues including demography, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, maternal and child health, primary health care communication, and population and environment. |
| Toxnet |
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A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. |
| Scopus |
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Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature including peer-reviewed titles, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, patent records, scientific web pages, and seamless links to full text articles and other library resources. It is updated daily.
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| Web of Science |
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The Web of Science delivers web-based access to the citation indexes, including Science Citation Index. Complete coverage is now provided. |
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