Orthoptics Databases
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| Medline via OvidSP (1950 - present)
A major and premier source for the medical sciences. Provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services. The majority are fulltext. |
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| CINAHL via EBSCOhost (1981 - present)
A major resource for allied health professionals and nurses. Includes some full text articles with coverage of allied health, management, behavioural sciences, biomedicine and education. |
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Cinahl Support Center Searching CINAHL (iResearch) |
| AMED : Allied and Complementary Medicine via OvidSP (1985 - present)
A useful specialised database of citations and abstracts for physicians, therapists, medical researchers and clinicians covering allied health and alternative treatments to conventional medicine. |
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| Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge
One of the largest Science databases. Provides access to current and retrospective information from high impact research journals. Also provides citation analysis of authors, journals and subject areas. |
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| 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. Jan 2012: Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) not currently supported in Document Download Manager |
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| Health & Society Database (H&S) via Informit Online
Local database of health policy, services and the social, psychological, legal and ethical issues associated with health which is of direct importance to Australian people and families. Aboriginal health, health administration and economic issues are a core subject area of the database. 
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| BMJ Best Practice A point of care decision-support tool. Provides access to reliable, up-to-date information structured around the patient consultation assisting students and clinicians with diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment decisions. |
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anatomy.tv
Human anatomy in 3D. Complete anatomical 3D models from skin to bone for various body parts. Includes biomechanical animations, dynamic MRI, and movie clips. "Bad Request (Invalid Verb)" error message workaround: Edit the URL in the address bar of your browser. Change http://www.anatomy.tv.ezproxy2.library.usyd.edu.au to http://www.anatomy.tv.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au, or vice versa, then press Enter on your keyboard. |
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| Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
A major source of statistical data compiled by Australia's official statistical organisation. Includes Australian census data, National and State based statistics. Statistics are updated weekdays at 11:30am.
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| ABS Census Datapacks Provides access to Census 2006 Community Profile data & digital boundaries "in bulk" See also CData Online .
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| CAM : Complementary and alternative medicine via Pubmed
A useful source which contains citations to journal articles related to complementary and alternative medicine (Cam). A subset of PubMed. |
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| Catalyst Important: Logout out of Catalyst and if you link through to Martindale, close its window when finished. Catalyst provides quick, easy access to the popular AusDI Independent Drug Monographs, pharmaceutical company product information (PI), consumer medicine information (CMI) leaflets, drug product images, a product identifier module with convenient links to your choice of drug interaction system(s). The Australian independent drug monographs, originally published in the popular AusDI product, include full-text, evidence-based drug and drug-class monographs. |
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CData Online 2006
Allows you to create your own tables of Census data on a range of topics such as, age, education, housing, income, transport, religion, ethinicity, occupation and more. |
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| Cochrane Library
A reliable source of up-to-date information and evidence based studies designed to support decisions taken in health care. |
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| Current Contents Connect via ISI Web of Knowledge
A quick and easy way of keeping up to date with material published in your subject area. |
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| Dissertation & Theses Full Text via Proquest
Electronic full text available from 1997 - present. Contains more than 1.6 million Phd and Masters thesis accepted by accredited educational institutions and universities. Check to see what other thesis candidates have done in your field! (Note: Very large files; may be slow to download off-campus.) |
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| Embase.com
A major pharmacological, biomedical and drug information database. Contains a large number of full text articles published worldwide. |
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| ERIC via OvidSP (1966 - present)
Provides extensive access to educational-related literature. Includes coverage of meetings, conferences, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, books and monographs. An alternative interface is available: ERIC via Proquest |
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| ERIC Web (1966 - present)
ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. |
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| Expanded Academic Index ASAP via Gale Infotrac (1980 - present)
Contains an index, abstracts and full-text from a large number journals. Topics covered include communication studies, social science, science and technology, women studies, sociology, environment, and public affairs. |
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| GrantSearch
NB: No subscriber search available; free search only Australia's most comprehensive index of grant opportunities.
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| Informit Online
A collection of databases of Australasian scholarly research. Includes coverage of Medicine & Health, Social Sciences, Information Management and Technology, Business and Management.
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| Journal Citation Reports via ISI Web of Knowledge
Discover analytical information on journals such as impact factor and citation frequency. |
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| MIMS Online
Important: please close your browser down to end your MIMS session & enable other users to access MIMS. Australia's most comprehensive and authoritative pharmaceutical database. Provides full information on prescription and non-prescription drugs. Full colour product identification pictures are available. Also try Catalyst, a generic-based drug information resource. It covers a very comprehensive range of drugs including many over the counter (OTC) and hospital use only products. |
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| NetLibrary
A selection of eBooks covering a wide subject range including Health Sciences related topics. The eBooks are fully searchable and can be "checked out" or booked in advance. |
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NetLibrary for Macs |
| Proquest Central (formerly Proquest 5000)
ProQuest Central puts together a number of databases across a range of subject areas including business, general reference, education, science, technology and medicine. It provides both abstracts, indexing and full text. |
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| PsycInfo via OvidSP (1806 - present)
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Includes literature from disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Some full text. |
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| PubMed PubMed for handhelds A free database offering access to the Medline database of citations and abstracts of biomedical research articles. The core subject is medicine, and PubMed covers fields related to medicine. |
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| ScienceDirect
One of the largest online collections of published scientific research. Good coverage of medical related subjects. |
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| University of Sydney Theses
All University theses are listed in the library catalogue. Search by Author, Title, Subject or Keyword. |