Online tutorials
- Medline Advanced Search
2 minute tutorial on how to use Medline's Advanced search - Face to face classes Find a face to face class to help you with your research
- Embase cheatsheets, guides and demo searches New helpful guides and examples of how to search Embase
- Embase quick reference (PDF) More comprehensive guide to how to use Embase
- Searching Cinahl Great tutorial on how to search the new Cinahl interface. Watch the video or print the notes.
Key Databases
Great databases for finding scholarly literature:
- Medline via OvidSP Comprehensive medical, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, preclinical sciences and public health database.
- Embase.com The European equivalent of Medline - covers a significant amount of material not indexed in Medline.
- Informit Online Health, medicine, Indigenous health, mental health, drugs, alcohol, suicide, AIDS/HIV, health policy, health services, and rural health in Australia.
- Cinahl via Ebsco (1982 - present) Literature on allied and health and nursing.
- Sociological Abstracts via CSA (1950- present) International literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Useful for health topics where social aspects are a factor.
- More Databases...
Managing references
Once you've found your references you'll want an easy way to put them into your paper and store them. You can download a program called Endnote which will do that job for you...and it's free to Sydney University students and staff!
Here are some helpful tools for using Endnote:
Keeping up to date
- Setting up auto alerts in OvidSP Learn how to save your searches and recieve auto alerts on new material fitting your search criteria.
- Other alerting services Learn more on how to set up Table of Contents (TOC) and saved search alerts on other databases.
What are scholarly sources of information?
Try this tutorial to help you choose the right kind of information:
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