Nursing Databases
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| Cinahl via Ebsco The place to start for nursing and allied health research |
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| Medline via OvidSP (1950 - present) A major resource for biomedicine and health. (See also PubMed) |
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| Scopus Scopus is a large multidisciplinary database covering published material in the humanities and sciences. It also provides citation analysis of authors and subject areas. |
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| PsycInfo via OvidSP (1806 - present) Contains links to selected full text on psychology; social, clinical, cognitive and neuropsychology; psychiatry, sociology, anthropology and education. Produced by the American Psychological Association. |
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| Sociological Abstracts via Proquest (1952 - present). International literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. |
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| Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database via OvidSP An evidence-based health care resource to assist in evaluating evidence for informed clinical decision-making and best practice in health care. It includes evidence summaries in the following areas: Aged Care, Acute Care, Midwifery, Physio, Occupational Therapy, Diagnostic Imaging.  Also available via Proquest Nursing & Allied Health |
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| Australian Medicines Handbook Provides concise practical, reliable, comparative drug information to promote quality use of medicines in Australia. |
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| MedicinesComplete (2006 - present) Access to several major resources in pharmacy and pharmacology. |
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| Health Collection - search via Informit Online Health Collection - browse titles A full-text allied health database. Content includes research articles, reports and case studies of practical support to anyone studying or working in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health roles. |
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| Mosby's Nursing Consult Mosby's Nursing Consult (Elsevier) brings online books, journals, practice guidelines, drugs, news and evidence-based resources together in an integrated online interface to help nurses and students efficiently find answers to clinical questions. |
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| BMJ Best Practice A point of care decision-support tool. Provides access to reliable, up-to-date information structured around the patient consultation assisting students and clinicians with diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment decisions. |
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| AccessPhamacy AccessPharmacy is a comprehensive resource for pharmacy education which features searching by core curriculum topic or across leading pharmacy online references; browsing by organ system; and review of textbooks. |
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AGELINE via Ebsco (1978 - present) Covers social gerontology, which is the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts. |
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| AMED - Allied and Complementary Medicine via OvidSP (1985 - present) Covers a selection of journals in complementary and alternative medicine. |
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| anatomy.tv Human anatomy in 3D. Complete anatomical 3D models from skin to bone for various body parts. Includes biomechanical animations, dynamic MRI, and movie clips. Ensure your browser pop-up blocker is disabled for best functionality |
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| APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full Text via Informit Online (1978 - present) Australian literature of the social sciences and humanities. |
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| ATSIhealth via Informit Online (1900 - present) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health literature. |
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| AusportMed via Informit Online (1989 - present) Covers all aspects of medical and health issues in Australian sport. |
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| Australian Bureau of Statistics : ABS The Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's official statistical organisation. The site provides access to ABS statistical and reference information. |
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| Australian Medicines Handbook Note: the Browser Instruction page displays by default the first time AMH is accessed on a computer. Most browsers ( & all Library browsers) have javascript and cookies enabled by default, so you may simply click the "continue" link. Provides concise practical, reliable, comparative drug information to promote quality use of medicines in Australia. |
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| BIOSIS Previews via Web of Knowledge (1926 - present) A major resource for all biological sciences and particularly useful for searching experimental research. |
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| Caresearch A palliative care resource funded by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing that aims to provide evidence based, quality information to the palliative care community. |
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| Catalyst Important: Logout out of Catalyst and if you link through to Martindale, close its window when finished. Catalyst provides quick, easy access to the popular AusDI Independent Drug Monographs, pharmaceutical company product information (PI), consumer medicine information (CMI) leaflets, drug product images, a product identifier module with convenient links to your choice of drug interaction system(s). The Australian independent drug monographs, originally published in the popular AusDI product, include full-text, evidence-based drug and drug-class monographs. |
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| Cochrane Library via Wiley Interscience A collection of evidence-based databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence used to make informed decision-making in the provision of healthcare. In addition to the Cochrane reviews, it provides other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials. All material is full-text. |
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| Current Contents Connect via ISI Web of Knowledge (1998 - present) A quick and easy way of keeping up to date with material published in your subject area. |
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| Dissertation & Theses Full Text via ProQuest An authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities. |
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| Drug Database (DRUG) via Informit Online (1974 - present) Drug Database (DRUG), produced by the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia (ADCA) in Canberra, covers material on the psychosocial aspects of drug abuse. |
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| All EBM Reviews: Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, DARE, CCTR, CLEED, CLMCR, & CLHTA via OvidSP This multifile database allows you to search simultaneously the seven Evidence Based Medicine Reviews databases: ACP Journal Club (ACP), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CCTR), NHS Economic Evaluation Database (CLEED), Health Technology Assessment (CLHTA), and Cochrane Methodology Register (CLMCR). |
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| Embase.com(1966 - present) European equivalent of Medline covering biomedicine and pharmacy. |
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| Embase via ScienceDirect EMBASE is an international pharmacological and biomedical database indexing medical and drug information from 70 countries. |
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| Expanded Academic Index ASAP(1980 - present) Topics covered include humanities, communication studies, social science, science and technology, women studies, sociology, environment, and public affairs. |
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| Factiva.com Search Australian and overseas newspapers. For Australian news sources, the Fairfax publications archive includes The Sydney Morning Herald 1986+, Australian Financial Review 1987+, BRW 1989+, and the News Limited archive includes The Australian 1996+. 15 concurrent users only. Also use Proquest Newsstand databases for international & recent Australian news coverage. |
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| Family - Australian Family & Society Abstracts Database
via Informit Online (1980 - present)
Comprehensive index and abstracts database which covers research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families. |
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| Families & Society Collection via Informit Online (1976 - present) Family provides published and unpublished material on research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families. |
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| Google Scholar An academic version of the famous search engine. Also useful for links to references which cite other academic articles. Using this link via the Library website means you can get the full-text of articles in journals to which the Library subscribes. |
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| Health & Society Database via Informit Online (1980 - present) Health & Society Database (H&S) is a subset of Australian Family & Society Abstracts (FAMILY), produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. It covers health policy and services and the social, psychological, legal, and ethical issues associated with health and Australian families. |
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| Health Books and Journals @ Ovid Search all of the University of Sydney online books and journals available through Ovid. |
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| Health Issues in Criminal Justice (CINCH-Health) via Informit Online (1968 - present) This database focuses on health issues involved in the crimal justice system. Subject coverage includes mental health, medical and medicolegal issues, drugs and alcohol, suicide, HIV/AIDS, corrections health, euthanasia and occupational health and safety. |
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| Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT) Includes clinical practice guidelines, consumer health brochures, evidence reports and technology assessments from contributers such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Institutes of Health (United States). |
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| HIV/AIDS Database (HIVA) via Informit Online (1980 - present) Produced by the the NSW HIV/AIDS Library Network and deals with the clinical, nutritional, medical, social and psychological aspects of HIV/AIDS. |
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| Humanities & Social Sciences Collection via Informit (1940 - present) Broad subject coverage ensures relevance to users of all interests especially Aboriginal and indigenous studies, arts, history, law, literary studies, media, political science and sociology. |
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| International Pharmaceutical Abstracts via OvidSP (1950 - present) Provides worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and Health related literature. |
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| Journal Citation Reports via ISI Web of Knowledge Discover analytical information on selected journals such as impact factor and citation frequency. |
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| Maternity and Infant Care via OvidSP (1971 - present) Indexes journals, books, and grey literature relating to the midwifery profession, pregnancy, labour, birth, postnatal care, and neonatal care and the first year of an infant's life. |
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| MDConsult MDConsult consists of cross searchable full text medical reference books and full text medical journals and clinics. |
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| Medical Evidence Matters Scroll down the initial list of databases to click Medical Evidence Matters. Allows you to assess therapy options for known medical conditions by comparing outcomes from the peer-reviewed literature. Results are organized into summary tables and graphs. |
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| MIMS Online Important: please close your browser down to end your MIMS session & enable other users to access MIMS. An Australian pharmaceutical database offering access to information on prescription and non-prescription drugs. Also try Catalyst, a generic-based drug information resource. It covers a very comprehensive range of drugs including many over the counter (OTC) and hospital use only products. |
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| Mosby's Index Mosby's Index (Elsevier) covers over 3,000 peer-reviewed and electronic only journals in the fields of Nursing and Allied health, utilising a version of the EMTREE thesaurus enhanced for Nursing. |
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| Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies (MAIS) via Informit Online (1988 - present) AAll aspects of Australian immigration and multicultural issues. |
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| Pre-Medline via OvidSP PreMEDLINE is the in-process database for MEDLINE. It provides basic information and abstracts before a record is indexed with MeSH heading(s) and added to MEDLINE. |
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| Proquest Newsstand databases Search a wide range of international and Australian newspapers in ANZ Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand, and Proquest Newsstand. ANZ Newsstand covers Australian and New Zealand newspapers published by Fairfax Australia and News Ltd, AAP newswires and ABC transcripts. Key titles included: The Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Australian (2001- ), Canberra Times (21/5/2007 -), Courier Mail (Feb 2001 -), Sun Herald (1/9/1996 - ), Sunday Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Sydney Morning Herald (1/8/1996). Content list. Use Factiva for access to ANZ titles prior to these dates. |
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| Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Includes e-journals, Evidence-Based Resources from the Joanna Briggs Institute, and the Medcom Video Training Programs Collection |
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| PubMed PubMed for handhelds National Library of Medicine's free online public access to Medline. See also Medline (Ovid) |
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| Rural and Remote Health Database (RURAL) via Informit Online (1966 - 2006) Covers topics such as education for rural medical practice, indigenous peoples health, rural and remote area nursing and health care. |
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| TOXNET(1965 - present) A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. |
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| TVNews via Informit Online (September 2007 - present) TVNews indexes Australian television news, current affairs programs, and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks and links to the video files. Provided access is restricted to University of Sydney staff and students, the material is used for educational purposes and the Copyright Part VA Warning Notice is displayed, possible uses of TVNews items include:
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| Web of Knowledge This portal hosts Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, and via the Additional Resources tab, Journal Citation Reports. Its CrossSearch feature enables a "quick overview" search of these databases and also searches Agricola and Pubmed. |
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| Web of Science Contains Science Citation Index Expanded 1900-, Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1975. |
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