> Bibliographic Databases
> Clinical Guidelines
> Dictionaries
> Health subject gateways
> How to guides
> Journals - open access
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> Other useful general websites
> Search engines - health
> Search engines - general
> Searching - evidence based
How to ...
... choose the best search for your information need
... develop a search strategy
... search the internet
... search the internet for medical resources
... do research on the internet
... do research using Google Advance search
... do research using PubMed
... do research using strategies developed in evidence based medicine (EBM)
... evaluate what you find
... evaluate medical resources on the web
... evaluate what you find using critical appraisal tools of EBM
... cite information in your work
... cite internet sources
Bibliographic Databases
(mainly abstracts)
PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
PubMed Central (National Library of Medicine)
Highwire (Stanford University)
Cochrane Library (Evidence Based)
NHS Evidence - Later Life (National Library for Health)
PEDro (Physiotherapy)
Ageing Well Literature Database (Ageing Research Online)
Clinical Guidelines
Evidence Australia (Royal Melbourne Hospital)
MJA Clinical guidelines (Australian Medical Journal)
NSW Health Policy directives, guidelines and information bulletins
BMJ Clinical Guidelines (British Medical Journal)
NICE Clinical Guidelines (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, UK)
National Guideline Clearinghouse (USA)
Health Subject Gateways
HealthInsite (Australia)
Intute includes gateways for Health & Life Sciences, Science & Technology, Social Science, Arts & Humanities (UK).
Map of Medicine (NHS Choices)
MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine)
Journals - Open Access
PubMed Central
BioMed Central
Amedeo
Australian Journals Online (National Library of Australia)
FindArticles
PLoS Journals (Public Library of Science)
Edna (Education Network Australia)
Search Engines - Health
Scirus is a science-specific search engine that finds scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data from journals and web sites.
Search Engines - General
Dogpile is a meta search engine, which searches across many search engines including Google, Yahoo! Search, Live Search, Ask.com, About, MIVA and LookSmart.
Google Scholar locates scholarly literature (mainly abstracts) across a range of disciplines.
Google searches web pages from Australia or worldwide. Use Advanced Search for best results.
Vivisimo uses several search engines and provides results in a clustered list of categories that may match your query.
Searching - Evidence Based
CareSearch Palliative Care Knowledge Network
Cochrane Library
Evidence in Health and Social Care (NHS Choices)
Joanne Briggs Institute
PubMed Clinical Queries
RiFA (Research in Practice for Adults)
The Cambell Collaboration
TripAnswers
Trip Database
Searching - General
Dictionaries
MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary
Med Terms
AskOxford
Acronym Finder
Cambridge Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus
Newspapers
Australian Newspapers (National Library of Australia)
InfoQuick (Index to Sydney Morning Herald)
Media Links (State Library of NSW)
Newstext
Other
Australasian Legal Information Institute
Business Who's Who of Australia (Dun & Bradstreet)
Interfaith Calendar
NSW Area Health Interactive Map
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reviewed: 10 December 2009
updated: 10 December 2009
created: 1 September 2007
