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Key databases for Health Informatics  
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. 		Terms & conditions

Ovid Basic Helpsheet
CINAHL via OvidSP (1982 - 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. 		Terms & conditions

Ovid Basic Helpsheet
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. 		Terms & conditions

Ovid Basic Helpsheet
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. Web of Science also provides citation analysis of authors, journals and subject areas. 		Terms & conditions

Tutorials
Scopus
A large multidisciplinary database covering published material in the humanities and sciences. It also provides citation analysis of authors and subject areas. 		Terms & conditions
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. Australian content 		Terms & conditions
More databases useful for Health Informatics (A - Z)  
AGELINE via OvidSP 1978 - present
The place to start for ageing and gerontology. Provides coverage of ageing in relation to delivery of health care, psychology, public policy and economic contexts. 		Terms & conditions
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.
Australian content 		 
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. 		 
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. 		Terms & conditions
Dissertation & Theses Full Text via Proquest
Electronic full text available from 1997 - present
Containing 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.) 		Terms & conditions

Helpsheet
Embase
A major pharmacological, biomedical and drug information database. Contains a large number of full text articles from journals published worldwide. 		Terms & conditions

Tutorial
Expanded Academic Index ASAP (1980 - present)
Contains an index, abstracts and full-text. Topics covered include communication studies, social science, science and technology, women studies, sociology, environment, and public affairs. 		Terms & conditions
GrantSearch
Australia's most comprehensive index of grant opportunities. Australian content 		 
Informit Online
A collection of databases of online Australasian scholarly research. Includes coverage of Medicine & Health, Social Sciences, Information Management and Technology, Business and Management. Australian content 		 
Journal Citation Reports via ISI Web of Knowledge
Discover analytical information on journals such as impact factor and citation frequency. 		Terms & conditions

Tutorials

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MIMS Online
Australia's most comprehensive and authoritative pharmaceutical database. Provides full information on prescription and non-prescription drugs. Full colour product identification pictures are available. 		Terms & conditions
NICAN
Contains sport and recreation information for people with disabilities Australian content 		 
ProQuest 5000
Includes databases across a range of subject areas including business, general reference, education, science, technology and medicine. It provides both abstracts, indexing and full text. 		Terms & conditions

Quickstart guide
PsycInfo via OvidSP (1806-present)
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. 		Terms & conditions

User guide
PubMed
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. 		 
ScienceDirect
One of the largest online collections of published scientific research. Good coverage of medical related subjects. 		Terms & conditions
University of Sydney Theses
All University theses are listed in the library catalogue. Search by Author, Title, Subject or Keyword. 		 

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