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
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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.
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