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This is a guide to general medicine resources for USYD students, staff, and researchers
Last update: Nov 13th, 2009 URL: http://libguides.library.usyd.edu.au/medicine  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Key Databases

Key databases

  • 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
  • Meditext via Informit Online (1968 - present)  
    Australian literature on all aspects of health and medicine, with an emphasis on clinical medicine and paraprofessional fields. Full text available from 1995.
  • Embase.com (1966 - present)  
    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)
  • 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.
  • Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge  
    Contains Science Citation Index Expanded 1945-, Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1975. It allows the identification of key articles in a discipline and to search by cited reference, that is to trace reference
  • PubMed  
    The National Library of Medicine's free online public access to Medline. See also Medline (OvidSP)
  • See Full list of Health and Medical Databases  
 

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