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Health Sciences (BHS) 

This guide is designed for Bachelor of Health Sciences students
Last update: Nov 03rd, 2009 URL: http://libguides.library.usyd.edu.au/bhs  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Finding Specific Journal Articles

If you're trying to track down a particular journal article - say one from a list of references - use the library catalogue. 

Select 'Journal Title' from the drop-down menu and type in the title of the journal, not the title of the journal article! Watch this clip to find out more...

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Finding Journal Articles on a Topic

If you're trying to find journal articles on a particular topic, use one of our databases. 

Go to 'Databases by Subject', select an appropriate database, and do a keyword search for your topic. Watch this clip to find out more...

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Core Databases for the Health Sciences

Start your research here! (All databases can be accessed off-campus using your UniKey).

  • MEDLINE  
      
    Keywords: Health, Medicine, Nursing, Health Administration, Health Care Systems, Health Policy
  • CINAHL  
      
    Keywords: Nursing, Allied Health, Health Administration
  • Scopus  
      
    Keywords: Medicine, Nursing, Health Professions, Citation Database
  • Web of Science  
      
    Keywords: Medicine, Public Health, Pharmacology, Psychology, Citation Database
  • PSYCInfo  
      
    Keywords: Psychology, Behavioural Health, Mental Health
  • AGELINE  
      
    Keywords: Ageing, Aged Care, Disability, Rehabilitation, Gerontology, Community Health
  • Sociological Abstracts  
      
    Keywords: Sociology, Behavioural Health
  • Health & Society Database  
      
    Keywords: Health Administration, Health Policy, Health Services
  • APAIS-Health  
      
    Keywords: Health and Law, Health and Society, Health and Economy, Health and Ethics
  • ATSIHealth  
      
    Keywords: Aboriginal Health, Torres Strait Islander Health
  • Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet  
      
    Keywords: Aboriginal Health, Torres Strait Islander Health
  • RURAL: Rural and Remote Health Database  
      
    Keywords: Rural Health, Remote Health, Health Workforce, Health Policy, Health Delivery, Health Services
  • PsycBITE  
      
    Keywords: Evidence Based Health, Psychology, Behavioural Health
  • Other useful databases...  
 

Medline Search Tips

Medline has different features to other databases you may have used. Here are some short, interactive tutorials to introduce you to Medline:

 
 

Search Engines

Search Google Scholar via the library website to get more full text access to journal articles.

  • Google Scholar  
      
    The academic version of Google.
  • Scirus  
      
    A search engine focused on scientific information.
 

Basic Search Tips

Never searched a database before? Here are some tips to get you started:

  • Identify key concepts. e.g. 'type 2 diabetes' and 'prevention'.
  • Brainstorm synonyms for each key concept. e.g. 'diabetes mellitus', 'prevent'.
  • Use truncation to broaden your search. e.g. 'prevent*' will find 'prevent', 'preventing', 'prevention', 'preventative', 'prevented' etc.
  • Use double quotation marks to narrow your search. e.g. "type 2 diabetes" will search for these words as a phrase rather than seperately, thereby reducing the number of irrelevant hits.
  • Combine synonyms with OR and key concepts with AND. e.g. ("type 2 diabetes" or "diabetes mellitus") and prevent*. 

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