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Quick links to CINAHL on Ebsco; OVID Databases, eg MEDLINE ; and UpToDate (not available offsite)

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AMED - a bibliographic database (Allied and Complementary Medicine) produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library. It covers a selection of journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine.

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BANDOLIER - a journal focusing on evidence-based healthcare. Information is drawn from systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomised trials and high quality observational studies. These are analysed to ensure relevance and published, first in the paper version of Bandolier, and after six months, on the website. Where necessary, editors of Bandolier also carry out their own systematic reviews.

BestTreatments - database funded by the Ministry of Health, which provides consumers with information on health issues. The information supplied is sourced from Clinical Evidence and is published by the BMJ Publishing Group .

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CINAHL (via Ebsco) - CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers.

Clinical Evidence - via the BMJ publications group website. Clinical Evidence is the international source of the best available evidence for effective health care. They summarise the evidence to help you make your clinical decisions.

Cochrane Library - A collection of databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews, Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment Database, and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database.

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DataStar - a bibliographic database made up of DH-Data which covers health service, hospital administration, medical toxicology and environmental health and is jointly produced by two services at the Department of Health (UK) and King's Fund which covers policy and management of health and social care services in the United Kingdom.

DH-Data - covers health service, hospital administration, medical toxicology and environmental health and is jointly produced by two services at the Department of Health (UK).

Drug Information Portal from NLM links the various freely accessible drugs / medicines databases in its collection in a single metasearch interface, e.g.  LactMed for safety of the drug in pregnancy / breastfeeding,  HSDB and TOXLINE for reactions / interactions. 

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All EBSCO Databases - (University of Otago, Wellington computer network only) including Academic Search Complete, Australia/NZ Reference Centre, Business Source Complete, CINAHL, Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Reference Systems, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Computer Source, EconLit, Health Business Fulltext, Health Source Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Hospitality and Tourism Index, Newspaper Source, Professional Development Collection, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Regional Business News, Religion and Philosophy Collection, The Serials Directory, SPORTDiscus.

EMBASE - Excerpta Medica database (EMBASE) produced by Elsevier, is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals.

EPIC Suite: Thomson Gale - (University of Otago, Wellington computer network only) a general knowledge database that includes diverse resource centres and includes the Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module.

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Firstsearch - (University of Otago, Wellington computer network only) the OCLC FirstSearch service, connecting you to information in a wide range of subjects in 12 databases.

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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Article linker will provide links to library databases and full-text of many articles.

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imagesMD - (University of Otago, Wellington computer network only) an online encyclopaedia of medical images containing over 50,000 images from more than 90 subject collections. Each is accompanied by detailed and informative text contributed by more than 2,000 medical experts.

Informit Health Collection - (University of Otago, Wellington computer network only) Available from 1 January 2010. Developed in response to the growing demand for Australasian health information, this Collection provides cover-to-cover full text access to core content from the region. Content includes research articles, reports and case studies of practical support to anyone studying or working in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health roles. Many titles included in the Collection are unavailable elsewhere online, including journals dedicated to specialist and current topics of interest such as ageing and age care, child health and  breastfeeding, indigenous health issues, mental health and rehabilitation.

INNZ - an index with abstracts from selected New Zealand serial publications, including newspapers and approximately 300 journals about New Zealand and the South Pacific.

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Joanna Briggs Institute - (C&CDHB computer network only) the Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing & Midwifery produces best practice sheets and systematic reviews (password required - contact the Reference Desk, ext 5561, for details).

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King's Fund - covers policy and management of health and social care services in the United Kingdom (searched via DataStar).

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MEDLINE - the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) premier bibliographic database providing information from the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health and pre-clinical sciences. MEDLINE is the primary source of global information from international literature on biomedicine.

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OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) - OMIM is a freely available database from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), offering a searchable catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. Links are also made available to PubMed and additional related resources at NCBI and elsewhere.

Otago Databases - (University of Otago, Wellington computer network only) access to databases via the University of Otago.

OTseeker - (Occupational Therapy Systematic Evaluation of Evidence) a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy.

Ovid Databases - Collection of databases including AMED, EMBASE, MEDLINE and PsycINFO. Further information is available on the OVID Database Help Page

Oxford Reference Online - (University of Otago, Wellington computer network only) a collection of full-text dictionaries and encyclopaedias.

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PEDro : Physiotherapy Evidence Database - developed to give physiotherapists and others rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy.

POPLINE  is a freely accessible database indexing scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in a wide range of reproductive health issues, e.g. population law and policy, population and environment, family planning, fertility, reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases / infections,  gender and health.

Proquest - access to a large range of databases, many full-text, including Health and Medical Complete.

PsycINFO - a bibliographic database that provides citations with abstracts to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.

PubMed - service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s . Access to PubMed is free and unrestricted.

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REHABDATA - disability and rehabilitation database produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center. It describes over 65,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities.

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ScienceDirect - access to full-text of Elsevier journals on a current subscription to the University of Otago Library.

Scopus - (University of Otago, Wellington computer network only) covers 25 million abstracts from over 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers. It also offers powerful and innovative searching and browsing tools. Designed to be as easy to use as PubMed or Google, Scopus is integrated with Scirus web search to cover the scientific web.

The Serials Directory - (University of Otago, Wellington computer network only) provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. Check if a serial is peer reviewed and where it is indexed.

SPORTDiscus (via Ebsco) - (University of Otago, Wellington computer network only) provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines.

STAT!Ref® Shared Collection online - is a cross-searchable database of electronic medical books available to the UOW, C&CDHB and University of Otago networks. It includes the following titles: Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment - 46th Ed. (2007), Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR", 2000), Essentials of Microbiology for Dental Students - 2nd Ed. (2006), Goodman & Gilman's, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics - 11th Ed. (2006), Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine - 16th Ed. (2005), Introduction to Orthodontics - 2nd Ed. (2001), Oxford Textbook of Medicine - 4th Ed. (2003), Oxford Textbook of Surgery - 2nd Ed. (2000), Paediatric Dentistry - 3rd Ed. (2005)

Enter a search term and all the available books will be searched or select advanced search and choose an individual title.

STAT!Ref® Wellington titles online - available to the UOW and C&CDHB networks and includes the following titles: Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology 8th Ed. (2005) - Infectious diseases: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention (2005) - Nurse's Guide to Cancer Care (2000) - Orthopaedic Examination, Evaluation, & Intervention (2004) - Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine 2nd Ed. (2005) - Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care 3rd Ed. (2004) - Rudolph's Pediatrics 21st Ed. (2003) - Trauma 5th Ed. (2004)

SWLI Evidence Database to support Research in Aging is a freely available evidence-based database from the Social Work Leadership Institute of related, published studies and articles that illuminate and advance policy discussions regarding aging care and the role of social workers.

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TRIP - a free web resource that pulls together the best available evidence from the web to enable health professionals find answers to clinical questions. Content is drawn from evidence-based sources of systematic reviews, practice guidelines, and critically appraised topics and articles. TRIP also searches Medline's Clinical Queries, medical image databases, e-textbooks, and patient information leaflets. TRIP Answers is a searchable repository of clinical Q&As from a range of sources around the world. The aim is to provide a space where clinicians can find answers to their own questions generated by patients. Each Q&A is evidence-graded.

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UpToDate - (UOW and C&CDHB access. Not available offsite ) medical topic reviews that are specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice. The published evidence is summarized and specific recommendations made for patient care. Physician editors and authors review and update content on a continuous basis and a new, peer-reviewed version is issued every four months.

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Web of Knowledge - (University of Otago, Wellington computer network only) access to the Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes. Also includes access to Current Contents Connect.

Wiley InterScience - access to 330 titles from a broad range of subjects, with 99 in the "Life and Medical Sciences.

Further copyright restrictions

Users may print up to 10% or one chapter of a work.
One article from a journal may be printed, or additional articles from the same journal if they are on the same subject
Some publishers (e.g. Blackwell's) do not allow you to save or email copies of articles. If there is not an option to "email to a friend" then you are probably not allowed to do it. Please check with library staff if you are not sure.
Offsite access to some resources may be restricted. Please contact the library on extn 5561 for further information.
For information concerning downloading for educational purposes, eg for inclusion in course packs, please contact the Library reference staff on extn 5561

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Last updated March 3, 2010

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