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PEDro – the Physiotherapy Evidence Database – is is a free, Australian, web-based database of evidence relevant to physiotherapy. It contains citations of over 11,400 randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines relevant to physiotherapy. Where possible, abstracts and links to full-text versions of the documents are also provided.

The randomised controlled trials on PEDro are rated for quality to assist in discrimination between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not.

PEDro is maintained by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy and  is based at the School of Physiotherapy at the University of Sydney.

Periodicals Index (PERIND), produced by the National University of Singapore Library, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles on Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN (as an entity).

Source documents: Approximately 270 core journal titles published internationally and in Singapore. The journals are mainly in English with a small number in Malay. They include book reviews, review articles, editorials, letters, speeches, lectures, interviews, obituaries, panel discussions, commentaries, legislation notes, case notes and clinical case studies. The citations on medicine include also those authored by Singapore and Malaysian doctors regardless of geographical coverage. Most journals date from 1980, though medicine is covered from 1975 and law from 1932. Note that PERIND started as an index to periodical literature but beginning from mid-1997, it covers also book chapters and conference papers (both published and unpublished).

Subject coverage: Humanities, social sciences, business, management, building, architecture, city planning, law and medicine.

The Philosopher's Index database 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.

Coverage from 1940 - .

PictureAustralia is a service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time.

When you do a search in PictureAustralia, you are searching the collections of all the participating agencies. A full list of participating agencies can be found at: http://www.pictureaustralia.org/providers.html

Search results are presented as sets of 'thumbnail' or preview images. When you click on one of these you will go to web site of the relevant agency to view the full-size version, and you can order a high-resolution copy if required. You can move between PictureAustralia and the participating agencies' web sites using the BACK button in your web browser.

Features of PictureAustralia:

• Artworks include paintings, drawings, prints and posters of abstract art, fine art and portraits
• Photographs capture people, places and events
• Objects include sculpture, scrimshaw, bark, costume, weapons
• Images may be in black and white or full colour.

Primal Pictures is an online interactive resource that provides a multimedia overview of human anatomy.

Primal Pictures Dentistry, also called 3D Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry, is the Dentistry module of Primal Pictures, and includes 3D modelling of more than 100 views of the key anatomy for dentistry. Views include oral and nasal cavities, dentition, individual teeth in 3D and cross section, nerves, larynx and pharynx, sinuses, the eye, and the brain.

The resource also features MRI images, photographic slides, movies and animations, and specialised clinical content which includes 3D views of progressive dental conditions such as caries and gingivitis, and interactive 3D nerve views of intraoral injections.

A clinical text section covers a range of subjects in a subject guide format under the headings of embryogenesis, examination, teeth, dental anaesthesia, spread of infection, face, joints overview, and pterygopalatine fossa.

Please note:

• CSU's listing of Primal Pictures Dentistry links to an introductory Ovid screen which lists the various modules of Primal Pictures. Look for and click on the Dentistry heading in the right column, marked by a green tick.
• If you have previously used Primal Pictures (the full resource), you might find that the link to Primal Pictures Dentistry takes you to the full resource. You will need to clear cookies to resolve this.

Primal Pictures on Ovid is an interactive resource that provides a multimedia overview of human anatomy. It features three-dimensional animations that illustrate function, biomechanics, and surgical procedures. These animations and models include coverage of more than 6500 structures. They show different layers of anatomical regions, rotate those regions 360 degrees, and call up textual information about each structure. The models are supplemented by clinical videos, pathology slides, and MRI scans.

Primal Pictures, which claims to have created the world's first complete 3D model of human anatomy, is designed for students, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. The resource includes a study guide and a test bank for students.

Specialized collection of more than 550 scholarly education journals, and 200 educational reports.

Includes more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals. Full text titles are available in HTML full-text or (searchable) PDF format. Coverage varies, with some full text content from 1965- .

PsycARTICLES Full Text contains full-text professional and academic articles from 68 scholarly journals in psychology and related disciplines published by the American Psychological Association (APA), Hogrefe Publishing Group, the Canadian Psychological Association, and APA's Educational Publishing Foundation. It has always been a subset of the PsycINFO database, but is now (mid-2009) available as a separate resource.

Coverage extends back to 1894. In total, the database contains nearly 140,000 articles. The 68 journals are all currently published journals, but there is also material from journals no longer published.

A full-list of the currently-published journals is available here .

The database is updated weekly, in conjunction with PsycINFO.

Emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry, psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Contains the full text of nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals. Full text titles are available in HTML full-text or (searchable) PDF format. Coverage varies, with some full text content from 1965- .

PsycINFO is an electronic bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.

It covers more than 1,300 international journals in more than 20 languages, and books and book chapters in English, and includes material from as far back as the early 1800s.

There are links to some full text journal titles from the database Journals@Ovid.

PsycINFO is provided by Ovid in various date packages.

PsycINFO is an electronic bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.

It covers more than 1,300 international journals in more than 20 languages, and books and book chapters in English, and includes material from as far back as the early 1800s.

There are links to some full text journal titles from the database Journals@Ovid.

PsycINFO is provided by Ovid in various date packages.

PsycINFO is an electronic bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.

It covers more than 1,300 international journals in more than 20 languages, and books and book chapters in English, and includes material from as far back as the early 1800s.

There are links to some full text journal titles from the database Journals@Ovid.

PsycINFO is provided by Ovid in various date packages.

PsycINFO is an electronic bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.

It covers more than 1,300 international journals in more than 20 languages, and books and book chapters in English, and includes material from as far back as the early 1800s.

There are links to some full text journal titles from the database Journals@Ovid.

PsycINFO is provided by Ovid in various date packages.

PsycINFO is an electronic bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.

It covers more than 1,300 international journals in more than 20 languages, and books and book chapters in English, and includes material from as far back as the early 1800s.

There are links to some full text journal titles from the database Journals@Ovid.

PsycINFO is provided by Ovid in various date packages.

PubChem is a free resource available as three separate but linked databases which contain the chemical structures of small organic molecules, and information on their biological activities. It aims “to provide a public online resource of comprehensive information on the biological activities of small molecules … to molecular biologists as well as computational and medicinal chemists”.

The three databases are:
PubChem Substance - Search unique chemical structures using names, synonyms or keywords.
PubChem Compound  - Search deposited chemical substance records using names, synonyms or keywords.
PubChem BioAssay - Search bioassay records using terms from the bioassay description.

PubChem also provides a chemical structure similarity search tool, and a BioActivity Summary service.

PubChem is part of the Entrez search and retrieval system, which also gives access to PubMed and other biomedical databases. The system is maintained by the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a component of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), which is in turn part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). Chemical structure records within PubChem include links to other Entrez databases, providing information on biological properties. These include links to PubMed scientific literature and NCBI's protein 3D structure resource.

PubMed, developed by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the (US) National Library of Medicine (NLM), is a free database of citations to more than 16 million journal articles from over 4,600 of the world's most significant health sciences journals. These citations are to articles in journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and the life sciences.

A list of the journals covered is available here.

The database consists primarily of citation-only references, but in some cases the LinkOut feature provides access to full-text articles at journal websites and in other web resources. PubMed includes links to most of the (full-text) articles in PubMed Central.

The bibliographic information in PubMed includes MEDLINE, but also includes additional material such as citations that precede the date a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing. For information on the difference between PubMed and MEDLINE, see the NLM Fact Sheet: What's the Difference Between MEDLINE and PubMed?

PubMed includes a journals database, which can be searched in various ways, and the My NCBI feature, which allows for saving results and searches and for setting up alerts.

Coverage extends back to the 1950s; the database is updated weekly.

PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital full-text archive of life sciences and medical sciences journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the (US) National Library of Medicine (NLM).

A list of the journals included in PubMed Central is available at the PMC Journal List. New journals are continually being added to the database.

The currency and age of material in PubMed Central varies by journal. Many journals make their content available in PMC as soon as it is published. Others may delay release of content in PMC for anywhere from a few months to a few years after publication, but most provide free access to full text within a year of publication.

NLM is digitising the earlier print issues of many of the PMC journals in order to provide online access to the complete run of issues of these journals. PMC has material dating back to mid- to late-1800s or early 1900s for some journals.