Biomedical sciences
Finding Journal Articles
Databases enable you to search for articles on a particular topic:- Ebscohost A platform for more than 40 databases, use this link to search across all of them or to select individual, or groups of, relevant databases such as:
- Academic Search Complete A multidisciplinary database covering a range of subject areas including the sciences. Provides full text for more than 5000 journals, both scholarly and popular.
- Ejournals Database Indexes thousands of electronic journal titles. Full text available online for selected titles.
- General Science on Gale Covers more than 200 science journals from general science magazines to academic journals.
- Health Source Academic/Nursing Edition Full text for over 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on nursing and allied health.
- Health Source Consumer Edition Full text health journals intended for the health consumer.
- Medline - covered by PubMed and Scopus
- MIMS Online The web version of the MIMS pharmaceutical product information. It contains both abbreviated and full prescribing information, consumer medicine information and product images for pharmaceuticals available in Australia.
- MIT Cognet Includes 6 full text MIT Press journals and abstracts from other 25 journals, as well as full text ebooks, covering the field of brain and cognitive science.
- PubMed A service of the National Library of Medicine, providung access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles, including PubMed Central, and other related resources.
- PubMed Central An archive of life science articles.
- Sage Premier Full text access to over 450 journals published by Sage, access is generally from 1999 onwards.
- Scopus One of the world’s largest abstract and indexing database. It also includes the journals indexed by ScienceDirect and has 100% Medline coverage. Science Direct is a full text science database with a strong coverage of biomedical science journals.
- TVNews on Informit Provides online access to news, current affairs and selected documentary programs that have been broadcast on Australian television such as Four Corners, Catalyst and Cutting Edge.
Here's a Catalyst story about new dyes being used in brain scans to detect Alzheimer's in its early stages, Predicting Alzheimer's disease, 10 min.
- Web of Science Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. You can search most disciplines and time spans back to 1982 to uncover information relevant to your research.
Tip: If full text is not provided use the full text button 
to link to the full text in other databases (if available).
Ebooks
- MIT CogNet Over 500 full text ebooks in cognitive science, neuroscience and psychology.
- Credo Reference Online dictionaries and encyclopaedias covering a range of topics. Also includes a useful online tool for measurement conversions.
- EngNetBase Full text ebooks in biomedical engineering.
Selected titles:
- AccessScience A good, general, online encyclopaedia covering science and technology.
- Black's medical dictionary (Black)
- Collins dictionary of biology (Collins)
- A dictionary of biomedicine (Oxford University Press)
- Dictionary of microbiology and molecular biology (Wiley)
- Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary (Saunders)
- Encyclopedia of genetics, genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics (Wiley)
- Encyclopedia of imaging science and technology (Wiley)
- Encyclopedia of infectious diseases modern methodologies (Wiley)
- Encyclopedia of life science (Wiley)
- Encyclopedia of medical devices and instrumentation (Wiley)
- Encyclopedia of microbiology (Elsevier)
- The handbook of brain theory and neural networks (MIT Press)
- Handbook of contemporary neuropharmacology (Wiley)
- Handbook of psychophysiology (Cambridge University Press)
- The Human Body Book: An Illustrated Guide to Its Structure, Function and Disorders (Blackwell)
- MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences (MIT Press)
- Penguin dictionary of biology (Penguin)
- Wiley encyclopedia of biomedical engineering (Wiley)
- See the ebook guide for more ebook databases.
New Material
Find out about new books, ebooks, DVDs and streamed video added to the library collection in the last 12 months.
- Anatomy
- Biology
- Biophysics
- Biomedical engineering
- Cardiovascular system
- Human physiology
- Microbiology
- Find out about more new items, covering a range of topics, added to the library collection in the last month.
Internet Resources
- Bioresearch A searchable catalogue of biomedical internet sites provided on the Intute website.
- Biomedcentral Publisher of open access biomedical journals.
- BASE Academic search engine from Bielefeld University in Germany.
- Nature Online Website of the journal, Nature, with links to the current issue, archive, videos and podcasts.
Online Tutorials
Learn how to improve your research skills and use library services effectively - watch our short online tutorials!
- Searching for an article in an Ebscohost database: basic searching (2min 38)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 1: the reading list (1min 21)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 2: finding an article (1min 36)
- How do I place a hold? (1min 52)
- How do I renew a loan? (1min 34)
- Booking a computer or room at Hawthorn or Prahran (text instructions)