This page outlines databases and resources that are available at the University of Tasmania and that are relevant for all health disciplines. Scroll through them all or select the category of interest.
Go to the tab for your School name on the left to find additional and more specialised resources.
Multidisciplinary databases | Health databases | Evidence-based practice databases | Australian health literature | Other resources |
These databases are great for all science topics, and include a large amount of health science content. They are particularly useful if your topic is multidisciplinary or if you need to use citation features.
These databases include mainly Health content and are relevant for all Health disciplines.
Medline via Ovid: mainly searches Medline, plus some extra content; advanced search options
Medline via PubMed: mainly searches Medline, plus some extra content
Medline Complete via Ebsco: you may find yourself in here if you use the MegaSearch
Produced by National Library of Medicine, covers international literature on biomedicine and health, 5,600+ journals
Evidence-based practice is the 'integration of clinical expertise, patient values and the best evidence into the decision making process for patient care' (Sackett et al. 2000). It includes clinical practice guidelines, which are evidence-based recommendations about how healthcare and other professionals can care for patients with specific conditions.
You can learn more about EBP, clinical guidelines and our EBP databases on the Evidence-based practice guide.
Sackett, D.L., et al., 2000, Evidence-based medicine: how to practice and teach EBM (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Informit includes various databases containing references to Australian publications in a variety of disciplines, including Health. You can either search all of Informit, or select the relevant databases; such as Health Collection or APAIS-Health.
Other health resources we have access to at UTAS include:
Search for medical journals indexed in PubMed and ascertain the full journal name as well as the appropriate journal name abbreviation.