University of Sydney Subject Guides - Medicine for students

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Key databases

This list of databases consists of some of the core databases that you will use when conducting Medical research.

Medline via OvidSP (1950 - present)
MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine´s premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the preclinical sciences, health administration, and the health care system.
Apais-Health via Informit Online (1978 - present)
Covers health and medicine in Australia, in particular the legal, social, economic and ethical aspects of health.
Embase.com
European equivalent of Medline covering biomedicine and pharmacy.
All EBM Reviews: Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, DARE, CCTR, CLEED, CLCMR, & CLHTA via OvidSP
This mutifile database allows you to search simultaneously the seven Evidence Based Medicine Reviews databases including Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; ACP Journal Club; Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Mims Online
An Australian pharmaceutical database. It offers access to information on prescription and non-prescription drugs. To end the session please close your browser window.
MD Consult
MDConsult consists of cross searchable full text medical reference books and full text medical journals and clinics.
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Need help looking up Databases?

You might like to attend one of our face-to-face classes or if you don't have time we have some short video tutorials or interactive Tutorials