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About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Information Resource

AAFP Conditions A to Z

ACP’s PIER: The Physicians’ Information and Education Resource with AHFS DI Essentials

ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice

Adam's & Victor's Principles of Neurology

Advisory Board Company
WA Health Access to the ABC Site (intranet link)
The Advisory Board is a membership of 2,500 of the USA's largest and most progressive health systems and medical centers. The Advisory Board gathers data across and beyond the membership and publishes daily and weekly news services, 50 major studies and 3,000 customized research briefs each year on progressive management and clinical practices in health care. In general the research focuses on the best (and worst) demonstrated practices, helping member institutions benefit from one another's learning curves.

AHFS Drug Information
[American Hospital Formulary Service]

Alcohol and Other Drugs Handbook (Aust Dept Hlth & Ageing)

American Psychological Association APA Documentation from the Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"This section provides a quick resource for citing references in papers using the 5th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001). These materials will introduce you to APA documentation and show you examples which you can use as templates for citing your own references."

Analgesic Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]

Antibiotic Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]

ARCHI
The Australian Resource Centre for Healthcare Innovation (ARCHI) is a knowledge sharing hub for Australian health professionals and health service managers that actively supports the learning process for health professionals involved in clinical service redesign initiatives around Australia.

ARROW Discovery Service
Theses, working papers, technical reports etc from Australian university research repositories.

AustHealth

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII)

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics - ABS@WAgov

Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry

Australian Department of Health and Ageing National Medicines Policy

Australian Department of Health and Ageing Health Priorities

Australian Drug Information Network (ADIN) [Drug and Alcohol Abuse]

Australian Government Publication Information

Australian Immunisation Handbook (9th edition, 2008)

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook

Australian Medicines Handbook

Australian Society for Medical Research

Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (Katzung)

Behind the Headlines (NHS)
Behind the headlines provides an unbiased and evidence-based analysis of health stories that make the news. The service is intended for both the public and health professionals.

BioMed Central Journals
Original research titles are free access, review titles require a subscription

BMJ Journals Online

Braunwald's Heart Disease: a Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine

Brenner & Rector's The Kidney

Burket's Oral Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment

Campbell Collaboration

Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics

Campbell-Walsh Urology (Wein)

Cardiovascular Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]

CareSearch
CareSearch is the result of a project funded by the Australian Government to improve the evidence available to palliative care clinical practitioners, researchers and educators nationally.

CARPA Standard Treatment Manual Reference
Central Australian Rural Practitioners Association

Catalogue (Joint Catalogue with other WA Health Services)

Cecil Textbook of Medicine (Goldman)

Child Health Library

CINAHL Plus with Full Text [Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature]
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. More than 600,000 full-text articles are available, dating back to 1937.

Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers 2nd ed 2007 [National Library of Medicine]

Clinical Dermatology (Habif)

Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods (Henry)

Clinical Electrocardiography: A Simplified Approach (Goldberger)

Clinical Evidence

Clinical Oncology (Abeloff)

Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine (Roberts)

CME Centre (MD Consult)
Access to free continuing medical education through Clinical Cornerstone, a bi-monthly CME journal. Articles are designed to provide the primary care practitioner with information on cutting-edge developments. The CME Test Form can be printed out and faxed or mailed for ACCME Category 1 credit.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

ComLaw
ComLaw, incorporating the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) is the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney-General's Department.

Comprehensive Gynecology (Katz)

Conn's Current Therapy (Rakel)

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

CSL Antivenom Handbook

Cummings Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery

Current Critical Care Diagnosis & Treatment (Bongard)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology (Crawford)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Emergency Medicine

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Gastroenterology (Grendell)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Infectious Disease (Wilson)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Orthopedics (Skinner)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Pediatrics (Hay)

Current Diagnosis & Treatment Obstetrics & Gynecology (DeCherney)

Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment (Tierney)

Current Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment (Way)

Curtin Uni of Technology Referencing Guide
Includes APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA & Vancouver styles

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)

DeGowin’s Diagnostic Examination (DeGowin)

DeLee and Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

Delmar's Fundamental and Advanced Nursing Skills (Altman)

Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests

Dermatology Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]

Developmental Disability Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]

Diabetes Australia - National Evidence Based Guidelines

Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations

DIPEx Database of Individual Patient Experiences - this website has been replaced by HealthTalkOnline and YouthHealthTalk

Directory of Open Access Journals

Download of Psychiatry

Drug Information (MD Consult)
Information on generic drugs, brand names, indications, contraindications, adverse reactions, FDA approvals, safety notices, etc.

DrugPoints® System

Drug Use in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding [Therapeutic Guidelines]

DSM-IV-TR - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

DUETs (Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments)

Dynamed
DynaMed is a clinical reference tool for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care. DynaMed monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases. It currently contains clinically-organized summaries for around 2,000 topics and is updated daily.

Ebsco CINAHL Plus with Full Text [Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature]
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. More than 600,000 full-text articles are available, dating back to 1937.
Ebsco CINAHL Plus with Full Text for Smartphones & Mobiles

Ebsco Health Business Journal Collection
Ebsco Health Business Collection for Smartphones & Mobiles

Ebsco MEDLINE with Full Text
Full-text coverage dating back to 1965 for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE.
Ebsco MEDLINE with Full Text for Smartphones & Mobiles

Ebsco Psychology & Behavioral Science Journal Collection
Ebsco Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection for Smartphones & Mobiles

Ebsco PsycINFO
The American Psychological Association's (APA) database contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations dating back to the 1800s. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
Ebsco PsycINFO for Smartphones & Mobiles

ECG Learning Center in Cyberspace - Alan E Lindsay Center

ECG Library

Educator's Reference Desk

Embase (Ovid Database)

Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide (Tintinalli)

Emergency Topics [Therapeutic Guidelines]

EndNote FAQs

Endocrinology Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]

ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more tha n 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free.

Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Frontera)

Essentials of Radiology (Mettler)

Evidence Matters
The "Basic Free Version" allows clinicians to compare therapies for their patients based on peer-reviewed medical research. Provides answers to clinical questions from a simple "ask-a-question" interface, with results organised into summary graphs or tables, based on therapy effectiveness, safety and cost. Evidence Matters currently covers cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, gynaecology, neurology, oncology, orthopaedics, paediatrics and urology.

Eye Emergency Manual: an Illustrated Guide (NSW Health)

Family Medicine: Principles and Practice (Taylor)

Ferri's Clinical Advisor

Ferri's Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient

Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology

Foundations of Nursing Research

Free Books 4 Doctors

Free Medical Journals

Fremantle Hospital Medical Research Foundation

Gastrointestinal Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]

Geriatric Medicine, an Evidence Based Approach

Global Index Medicus (World Health Organization)
Index to African, Carribean, Eastern Mediterranean, Latin American and South East Asian journal articles

Goodman & Gilman’s: Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics

Google

GoogleScholar

GovPubs
Australian Government Publications Guide is a guide to selected types of Australian government publications, such as Acts, Hansards, Gazettes and Parliamentary Papers, located in Australia's National, State and Territory libraries or available on the Internet.

Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology: a Textbook of Medical Imaging

Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care

Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Questionnaires, index measures, rating scales, vignettes, tests in health and psychosocial sciences.

Harriet Lane Handbook: a Manual for Pediatric House Officers (Johns Hopkins)

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Access Medicine)

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (STAT!Ref)

Harvard Style Examples from Monash University Library

Health News Review
"HealthNewsReview.org is an attempt to help improve the accuracy, balance and completeness of news stories that make claims about new ideas in health care."

HealthInsite

HealthTalkOnline

Hematology: Basic Principles and Practice (Hoffman)

HighWire Press Journals

Hitting the Headlines Archive
An analysis of the evidence behind selected health stories reported in national newspapers. Summaries of news stories are posted within 48 hours of newspaper publication to ensure that health professionals and the public are better informed about the accuracy of reporting of research in the press.

Hursts the Heart (Fuster)

In-Cites.com
Designed to complement the publication, citation, citations-per-paper rankings, and other data featured in Essential Science Indicators. It also includes listings of highly cited and so-called hot papers across 22 broad fields, as well as baseline citation statistics to gauge whether a paper is cited above or less than average.

Infectious Diseases (Cohen & Powderly)

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences

Integrative Medicine (Rakel)

Intermid

Internurse

Intute Health & Life Sciences

Joanna Briggs Institute and JBI Connect

Journals Available - Links into Particular Packages, eg Emerald, ScienceDirect, ProQuest, etc

Journal Watch (Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford)
"Journal Watch is written by Dr Richard Lehman and is a lighthearted review of the leading medical journals from a GP perspective. It is updated weekly."

Journals@Ovid

Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology

Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children (Gershon)

LactMed
Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed) is a peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.

List of Serials Indexed for Online Users
Useful to discover journal title abbreviations or the full title where you only know the abbreviated title.

Map of Medicine Healthguides (UK)

Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference

Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry (Stern)

Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women’s Health Across the Lifespan

MD Consult
MD Consult contains many full text journals, including the Clinics series

MedCalc 3000 Medical Reference and Decision Support Tools
MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide range of medical formulae, calculators, conversion tools, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools commonly used by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and students. Tools include:

Media Doctor (Australia)
"Media Doctor is a website dedicated to improving the accuracy of media reports about new medical treatments. Media Doctor reviews current news items about medical treatments, assesses their quality using a standardised rating scale and presents reviews of good and bad examples of reports on this website. It is anticipated that these independent and objective critiques will improve journalistic practices in reporting new medications and treatments in Australia."

Media Doctor (Canada)
The Canadian site has the same objectives as the Australian site.

Media Portal

Medical & Health Research Infrastructure Council Western Australia

MEDLINE with Full Text
Full-text coverage dating back to 1965 for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE.

MedlinePlus

Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy

Merck Manual of Geriatrics

Merck Manuals

Micromedex
Drugs, Poisoning and Toxicology information - also includes Alternative Medicine (AltMedDex)

Middleton's Allergy: Principles and Practice (Adkinson)

Miller's Anesthesia

MIMS Online

Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA)
Provides national leadership in building greater awareness of mental health and suicide prevention amongst Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

National Academies Press
(more than 2,500 books online free)

National Cancer Institute [NIH Institutes of Health]

National Health & Medical Research Council (NH&MRC)

National Guidelines for Organ and Tissue Donation / Australasian Transplant Coordinators Association Incorporated 3rd Edition 2006

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

National Library of Guidelines (UK)

National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Select from over 100 searchable NLM databases and electronic resources

National Library of Medicine Gateway
Resources available to search through the Gateway

National Prescribing Service (Australia)
National Prescribing Service (NPS) is a member-based organisation providing accurate, balanced, evidence-based information and services to health professionals and the community on Quality Use of Medicines (QUM).

National Public Health Partnership

Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics (Kliegman)

Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On-Call Problems, Diseases and Drugs

Neurology Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]

NH&MRC

NHS Direct

NHS Evidence
A meta-search of authoritative clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practices from the UK NHS.

NSW Speech Pathology EBP Network

NICE

Obstetrics Normal and Problem Pregnancies (Gabbe)

OECD Health Data 2009
This database covers a wide range of policy relevant topics, from population health status and non-medical determinants of health to health care resources and their utilisation. Data are also collected on health insurance coverage and on health care within overall social protection systems.

OmniMedicalSearch

OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories
A fully searchable global directory of freely available open access repositories containing research material.

Operative Surgery Manual (Khatri)

Ophthalmology (Yanoff)

Osler Medical Handbook

Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery (Cummings)

OTseeker

Ovid Embase

Oxford Textbook of Medicine

Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (Gabbard)

Paediatric Pharmacopoeia [Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne]

Palliative Care Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]

Palliative Medicine (Walsh)

Patient Handouts
All 10,000 MD Consult patient handouts are easily customizable, allowing physicians to provide additional instructions and contact information on each handout. These handouts can be printed and distributed to patients. Most are written at a sixth- to eighth-grade reading level and are 1 to 2 pages in length. Spanish versions are also available for key topics.

Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners (Park)

Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and their Families

PEDro

Practice Guidelines (MD Consult)

Practice of Geriatrics (Duthie)

Primary Preventive Dentistry

Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases (Mandell, Bennett, & Dolin)

Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Long)

ProQuest Health & Medical and Nursing & Allied Health Collections

ProQuest Nursing Dissertations and Theses

Psychiatric Secrets (Jacobson)

Psychology Related Electronic Journals and Periodicals

Psychotropic Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]

PsycInfo (Ebsco database)

PsycLine, Your Guide to Psychology and Social Science Journals on the Web

PubList: The Internet Directory of Publications

PubMed (Medline)
[US National Library of Medicine]
PubMed for Handhelds

PubMed Bookshelf

PubMed Central Journals

PubMed Central UK

Raine Medical Research Foundation

RCPA Manual see Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Manual

Red Book: Report of the Committee on Infectious Disease

RehabData
US National Rehabilitation Information Center's online gateway to an abundance of disability- and rehabilitation-oriented information organized in a variety of formats designed to make it easy for users to find and use

Respiratory Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]

Review of General Psychiatry (Goldman)

Review of Medical Physiology (Ganong)

Review of Natural Products

Rheumatology Guidelines [Therapeutic Guidelines]

Robbins and Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease (Kumar)

Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Clinical Practice Guidelines

Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Manual

Rudolph's Pediatrics

Sabiston Textbook of Surgery (Townsend)

SAI Global Standards Australia
Use the Department of Health link to access the full text of Australia standards.  Please note that the Department has a single user license for all of Health so it is important to log out once you have finished using the site.

Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits

Schwartz's Principles of Surgery

Science Direct Journals (selected titles)

Science.Komm Internet Directory to Medical Journals

Scirus

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)

SIGN

Skeletal Trauma in Children (Green & Swiontkowski)

Skeletal Trauma: Basic Science, Management, and Reconstruction (Browner)

Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease

Smith’s General Urology (Tanagho)

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary

Stockley's Drug Interactions

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

Textbook of Clinical Neurology (Goetz)

Textbook of Family Medicine (Rakel)

Textbook of Respiratory Medicine (Murray & Nadel)

Therapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniques

Therapeutic Goods Administration Clinical Guidelines

Therapeutic Guidelines
Includes:  Analgesic, Antibiotic, Cardiovascular, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Gastrointestinal, Neurology, Palliative Care, Psychotropic, Respiratory, Rheumatology, Drug use in pregnancy and breastfeeding, Developmental Disability

Therapeutic Modalities in Rehabilitation

This Week In Medicine
MD Consult clinical summaries customized to your interests, synopses of current medical publications and events, what patients are reading, contents of major journals, topical reviews and more. Updated daily.

Toxnet
US National Library of Medicine databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases

Trauma (Moore)

TRIP Database [Turning Research Into Practice in Primary Care]
The TRIP Database is a meta-search engine that searches across 61 sites of high-quality medical information. By searching the TRIP Database you have direct, hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from premier on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (AKA the Vancouver style)

UptoDate (access only available from a computer in the Library)

US National Guideline Clearinghouse

WA Aboriginal Health Strategy

WA Biomedical Research Institute

WA Mental Health Policy and Strategic Plan 2010 - 2020

WA State Law Publisher
From 1 July 2004, free online access is available for all legislation, regulations, gazettes, etc.

Western Australian Institute for Medical Research

Western Australian Medication Safety Group (WAMSG)
Operational Circulars and Directives, Safety Alerts and Patient Information.

Western Australian Psychotropic Drugs Committee (WAPDC) Guidelines and Information
Guidelines on drug treatment for anxiety disorders, antipsychotic drugs, etc.

Western Australian Therapeutics Advisory Group (WATAG)
Advisory Notes, Antibiotic Use Evaluation Reports, Clinical Guidelines and Operational Circulars and Directives.

Wilderness Medicine (Auerbach)

Wiley-Blackwell Medical Journals

Williams Textbook of Endocrinology (Kronenberg)

Williams Obstetrics

Women and Newborn Health Library

Women's Health: A Primary Care Clincal Guide

World Wide Information on Serials in Health (WWISH List)
Maintained at Hunter Health. Includes a list of free titles - click on E-Journals link from the Quick Links Section.

YouthHealthTalk

 

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