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This guide will help you find information and introduce you to medical resources available at the UTAS library
Last update: Nov 01st, 2009 URL: http://utas.libguides.com/medicine  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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What are databases?

Databases contain information about things like  journal articles and conference proceedings

Use databases if you want to search for current research on a topic

Some databases contain full articles

For others you have to search for the journal title in our library catalogue

      
     

    UTAS Databases

    This link gives you a list of all the UTAS databases

     

    Library catalogue

    Database doesn't have fulltext?

    Use our catalogue to see if the journal title is available elsewhere


    or get more search options
     
     

    Key databases

    Start your search for journal articles by selecting one of these databases

     

    Evidence-based medicine databases

    • Dynamed  
        
      An evidence-based medicine database offering point of care information
    • UpToDate  
        
      ON CAMPUS ACCESS ONLY Help
    • Medical Evidence Matters  
        
      From ProQuest, this EBM database answers clinical questions
    • Clinical Evidence  
        
    • TRIP  
        
      Turning Research into Practice. A high quality evidence based medicine database
     

    Other recommended databases

    • Cochrane Library  
        
      Cochrane library does not open using Firefox. Please use an alternate browser such as Internet Explorer Help
    • CINAHL  
        
      Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature Help
    • Web of Science  
        
      Index of 7000 high impact journals in all subject areas. Articles indexed since 1991 have links to articles cited by and citing that article Help
    • Embase  
        
      Comprehensive, timely access to pharmacological, biomedical literature. More than 18 million records
    • Scopus  
        
      Large database indexing over 13 000 titles.
     
     

    Australian Health Databases

    • APAIS -Health (Informit)  
        
      Covers health and medicine in Australia and in particular the legal, social, economic and ethical aspects of health. No clinical articles. 1978+
    • Health and Society  
        
      Covers health policy and services and social, psychological, legal and ethical issues. 1980+
    • Meditext  
        
      This Australian database covers all aspects of health and medicine, with an emphasis on clinical medicine and paraprofessional fields
    • AMI  
        
      Australasian Medical Index. Includes material indexed by Medline
     

    Help!

     

    Need help with searching in journal databases? Try our

    Searching Databases tutorial

     

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