Medical Humanites Databases

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Databases

Database name	Search the database	Helpsheet	Full text
AGIS Plus Text: Attorney General's Information Service The AGIS database plus more than 120 full text legal journals from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. Journals available in full text	open database Password	Terms & conditions Helpsheet	Yes
Anthropology Plus Bibliographic references to articles and essays in English and other European languages relating to biological, cultural, physical and social anthropology from 1969 - NEW: Use the Ask A Librarian link in Anthropology Plus to contact your University of Sydney librarian.	open database		No
ATLA Religion Database Bibliographic references to journal articles, collections of essays, Festchriften, conference proceedings, congresses and book reviews on religion, religious scholarship, biblical studies and related fields, particularly in the West.	open database	Terms & conditions Ovid Basic Helpsheet Required browsers	No
Australian Family and Society Abstracts: FAMILY A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families. New:Family Plus		Helpsheet	No
CINCH: Australian Criminology Database A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime and criminal justice.	open database	Terms & conditions Helpsheet	No
EEBO: Early English Books Online Access the full text of over 125,000 titles published in English between 1473 and 1700.	open database	Terms & conditions	Yes
Eighteenth Century Collections Online Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. Based on The English Short Title Catalogue, it includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. As well as books and directories it covers sheet music, pamphlets and advertisements.	open database	Terms & conditions Terms & conditions	Yes
Expanded Academic Index ASAP Contains an index and abstracts to over 1500 journals including the full-text of 520 journals indexed (last 3 years). Topics covered include humanities, communication studies, social science, science and technology, women studies, sociology, environment, and public affairs	open database	Terms & conditions Results may include full text via Ingenta. Post-graduates and staff may request pay-per-view Ingenta articles from Interlibrary Loans	Some
Family & Society Plus 1980- via Informit Online Family & Society Plus is an indexing and full text database that provides access to the scanned images of articles from published and unpublished material on research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families. Family & Society Plus is based on the FAMILY database. Subject coverage includes research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families. Some examples are children and child development; adolescence and youth; the aged and services to the aged; marriage and divorce; adoption and foster care; child abuse and domestic violence; child care; family economics; counselling and therapy; employment and unemployment; family law; health; housing; health policy and services; minority families; population studies; social change and social issues; social and community services; and sexual attitudes and behaviours.	open database	Terms & conditions	2000-
Historical Abstracts Covers world history (1450 to the present), excluding America, including cultural diplomacy, economics, international relations and politics.	open database	Terms & conditions	No
LegalTrac A journal index. Contains some abstracts, including major Australian legal journals. Topic area is law	open database	Terms & conditions	Some
Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts: LLBA Abstracts of journal articles, citations of relevant dissertations, book review citations, book abstracts and abstracts of association papers on linguistics.	open database	Helpsheet	Some fulltext
MLA: Modern Languages Association International Bibliography via Ebsco Contains bibliographic references to scholarly works in French, English, German, Italian and other languages on the topics of linguistics, literature, literary theory and criticism and folklore.	open database	Terms & conditions	No
MLA Directory of Periodicals via Ebsco Contains information on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals. This information has been gathered by the MLA staff with the cooperation of MLA bibliographers and the editors represented in these listings. Over 7,100 titles are included; of these, over 4,400 are currently indexed. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.	open database	Terms & conditions
Philosopher's Index Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.	open database		No
Sociofile/Sociological Abstracts Bibliographic references and abstracts to literature of sociology and the related social sciences including the topics aging, AIDS, alcohol abuse, anthropology, cities, communications, counselling, crime, culture, death, demography, drugs, and education. Source material from over 30 languages.	open database	Terms & conditions Helpsheets	No
Web of Knowledge This portal hosts Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts, MEDLINE, and Journal Citation Reports. Its CrossSearch feature enables a "quick overview" search of these databases and also searches Agricola and Pubmed. The databases link to full text on some other platforms. Undergraduates not enabled to access all full text on ScienceDirect.	open database	Terms & conditions Tutorials Tutorial Recorded Training Bookmarking the database	Links to some full text
Web of Science Contains Science Citation Index Expanded 1945-, Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1975. Updated weekly, it allows users to search current and retrospective information from more than 8,500 journals, across more than 230 disciplines. Also allows cited reference searching to track a paper's influence. Links to full text on some other platforms. Undergraduates not enabled to access all full text on ScienceDirect.	open database	Terms & conditions Tutorials	Links to some full text
Women's Resources International Includes over 232,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases. No userid and password available.	open database		No

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Web Sites

Medical Ethics
url: http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/subjects/medicine/links/ethics.html

NYU School of Medicine (this site has a Medical Humanities directory)
url: http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/topview.html

University of California, Irvine
url: http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/com/medhum/links.html

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
url: http://www.asbh.org/

The Journal of Medical Humanities
url: http://mh.bmjjournals.com/

The journal Literature and Medicine
url: http://www.calliope.jhu.edu