Public and environmental health
Finding Journal Articles
Databases enable you to search for articles on a particular topic:
- Academic Search Complete on Ebscohost A comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database, with more the 5,300 full text periodicals.
- APA-FT Australian Public Affairs Full Text on Informit Index to thousands of social sciences and humanities articles, includes full text articles from more than 200 Australian journal titles.
- Expanded Academic ASAP on Gale A multidisciplinary database covering 2000 titles (more than half in full text) and a wide range of subject areas.
- Health & Society on Informit Indexes journal articles, conference papers, books, government publications, research reports and other resources, covering subjects such as health policy, health services, Aboriginal health, health education and promotion, and ethical issues, with a strong Australian focus.
- Health Reference Center Academic on Gale Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources.
- Health Source Academic/Nursing edition on Ebscohost Full text for over 400 scholarly ful ltext journals focusing on nursing and allied health.
- Health Source Consumer Edition on Ebscohost Full text health journals intended for the health consumer.
- Informit A set of Australian-based databases. May be a useful source of local material.
- Scopus 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 public and environmental health 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 Cutting Edge program about the health care systems in Britain, Japan, Germany, Switzerland and Taiwan, Sick around the world, 53 min.
- Web of Science Another large abstract and indexing database with links to full-text sources.
Tip: If full text is not provided use the Full Text? button 
to link to the full text in other databases (if available).
Finding Newspaper Articles
- Factiva Full text articles from hundreds of major newspapers from Australia and around the world.
- Australia New Zealand Reference Centre Full text articles from selected Australian newspapers.
See the Newspapers guide for more newspaper databases.
Ebooks
- Knovel a collection of more then 500 online books with a strong coverage of food science.
- EBL Ebook Library a collection of more the 30,000 online books across a wide range of subjects.
Selected titles :
- Atlas of human infectious diseases (Wiley)
- Dictionary of public health promotion and education (Wiley)
- Encyclopedia of food science and technology (Wiley)
- Encyclopedia of microbiology (Academic Press)
- Encyclopedia of environmental health (Elsevier Science)
- Food chemical safety (CRC Press)
- Food safety handbook (Wiley Interscience)
- Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology (Wiley Interscience)
- See the ebooks 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.
- Communicable diseases
- Environmental health
- Epidemiology
- Food safety
- Public health
- Find out about more new items, covering a range of topics, added to the library collection in the last month.
Government Websites
- Public Health Topics An access point to Public Health related information on the Victorian Government Health Information website including Environmental Health, Food Safety, Koori Health, etc.
- Environmental Health & Toxicology National Library of Medicine links to toxicology and environmental health resources from the US National Library of Medicine.
Standards
- Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code Access to the full text of the code.
- Australian Standards Online Swinburne Library subscription containing the full text of all current Australian Standards.
- Codex Alimentarius Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme
Statistics
- Topics @ a Glance: Health Full text of ABS data and reports, including those relating to health.
- Passport GMID (Global Market Information Database) Swinburne Library subscription. An international database containing useful statistical data.
Material Safety Datasheets
- Where to Find MSDS on the Web Listing of publicly accessible MSDS sites.
- SIRI MSDS Searchable database of more than 100,000 MSDS.
- MSDSXchange Search or browse the Xchange database for MSDS.
- MSDS Solutions An extensive collection. Requires free registration.
Toxicology
- Hazardous Substances Information System Database that allows you to find information on hazardous substances.
- Household Products Database Index to the chemical composition of common household products.
- TOXNET Cluster of databases related to toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
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)