Division of Library Services

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is the well known index to literature in the fields of nursing and allied health.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is available as an EBSCOhost database and is actually a combination of 3 databases: CINAHL Plus with Full Text, CINAHL Select, and PreCINAHL. It provides the CINAHL index to journals in the areas of nursing and allied health, but also provides the full-text of more than 560 of these journals. Other resources that are indexed include: legal cases, drug records, clinical trials, professional publications, health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, and Evidence-Based Care Sheets.

While the traditional CINAHL includes material dating from 1982, CINAHL Plus with Full Text includes material going back to 1937. The database is updated weekly.

EBSCOhost (Health) is a package of EBSCOhost databases put together by CSU Library with bibliographic and some full-text material on Health and related subject areas. These databases all have the option to limit searches to scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals..

The databases are:

• Academic Search Premier
• CINAHL Plus with Full Text
• Health Business Fulltext Elite
• Health Source: Consumer Edition
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
• SocINDEX with Full Text

EBSCOhost databases can be searched individually or in combination.

MEDLINE is recognized as the premier index of biomedical literature, and includes allied health fields, plus the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to health care. It is produced by the United States National Library of Medicine and covers thousands of international journals from 1950 - .

It is primarily a database of citations, but the Ovid version includes links to some full text journal titles from the database CSU Full Text Journals@Ovid, listed in the CSU databases lists as Journals@Ovid CSU Full Text Subscribed.

MEDLINE is provided by Ovid in various date packages. The Ovid database MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations consists of In-Process records (records in preparation) from the National Library of Medicine and “PubMed-not-MEDLINE” records from NLM.

The Joanna Briggs Institue (JBI) is a not-for-profit initiative of the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of Adelaide, with headquarters in Adelaide, and twenty-eight Collaborating Centres across the world. Established in 1996, the Institute is now a major international agency for evidence-based health and aged care.

The Joanna Briggs Institute provides extensive, free-access information about evidence based health care on its website. But its main product is JBI COnNECT – the Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics.

JBI COnNECT is a subscription-only online gateway to a collection of evidence-based resources and tools designed to assist in the clinical decision-making process and to support best practice. These resources and tools allow users to engage in the “six essential steps of evidence-based health care”: to search, appraise, summarise, embed, utilise, and evaluate evidence-based information.

JBI COnNECT comprises a series of sites on selected areas of health, referred to as ‘nodes’. All nodes contain the same resources and programs, but the information included in each node is specific to that area of health. Alternatively, users can search for information from all nodes.

The nodes in JBI COnNECT include:

• Aged Care
• Acute Care
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Infection Control
• Midwifery Care
• Rehabilitation

The resources and programs available in JBI COnNECT include:

• databases of EBP material including the Best Practice Information Sheet Collection, the JBI Library of Systematic Reviews, the JBI Database of Evidence-Based Care Bundles, and the JBI Database of Evidence Summaries;
• JBI RAPid, a program that assists users to appraise evidence;
• JBI Online Practice and Policy Manual Builder;
• JBI PACES and JBI POOL/JBI COOL (tools to implement evidence and evaluate the impact of using it on resident/client outcomes);
• a collection of online journals.

CSU users should have access to all the material on the JBI website. It is recommended that, in order to gain a full understanding of the JBI and its resources, users check the information provided via the tabs at the top of the Joanna Briggs Institute's webpage.This will reveal not only the scope of the databases,but also how to find links to useful webpages.

JBI COnNECT – the Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics – is a subscription-only resource which is the main product of the Joanna Briggs Institute.

JBI COnNECT works as an online gateway to a collection of evidence-based resources and tools designed to assist in the clinical decision-making process and to support best practice. These resources and tools allow users to engage in the “six essential steps of evidence-based health care”: to search, appraise, summarise, embed, utilise, and evaluate evidence-based information.

JBI COnNECT comprises a series of sites on selected areas of health, referred to as ‘nodes’. All nodes contain the same resources and programs, but the information included in each node is specific to that area of health. Alternatively, users can search for information from all nodes.

The nodes in JBI COnNECT include:

• Aged Care
• Acute Care
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Infection Control
• Midwifery
• Rehabilitation

The resources and programs available in JBI COnNECT include:

• databases of EBP material including the Best Practice Information Sheet Collection, the JBI Library of Systematic Reviews, the JBI Database of Evidence-Based Care Bundles, and the JBI Database of Evidence Summaries;
• JBI RAPid, a program that assists users to appraise evidence;
• JBI Online Practice and Policy Manual Builder;
• JBI PACES and JBI POOL/JBI COOL (tools to implement evidence and evaluate the impact of using it on resident/client outcomes);
• a collection of online journals.

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.

The Cochrane Library is the main product of the Cochrane Collaboration, which is "an international not-for-profit and independent organization, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of health care readily available". Its stated role is to make available systematic reviews of healthcare interventions, while promoting the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions.

Thus the Cochrane Library is one of the prime international and independent sources of evidence-based medicine information.

The major resource within the Cochrane Library is the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: systematic reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which clinical decisions are based. But there actually 7 databases in the Cochrane Library, as follows:

For detailed descriptions of these databases, click here.

These databases are available for searching and browsing using the Wiley InterScience interface. Much of the material, including the Cochrane Reviews, is available in full-text. The Cochrane Library is updated quarterly.

Cochrane Library is a subscription resource, but under an arrangement between the Australian Government and the Cochrane Collaboration, the resource is available free to internet users anywhere in Australia.

In addition to this, CSU users can access the 6 main Cochrane Library databases via the Ovid interface, where they are listed under the titles of “EBM Reviews”.

This database is an amalgamation of all the EBM Review databases available from Ovid. These include the following databases:

Cochrane Library Databases

• Cochrane DSR - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• DARE - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
• CCTR - Cochrane Controlled Trials Register
• CMR - Cochrane Methodology Register
• HTA - Health Technology Assessments
• NHSEED - NHS Economic Evaluation Database

Non-Cochrane Databases

• ACP Journal Club - American College of Physicians Journal Club

This allows for concurrent searching of all these databases

Current Contents includes tables of contents and citations from journals from all disciplines. Abstracts are available for approximately 75% of records. Covers more than 7,000 international journals for the last five years.

There is no full-text of the articles in Current Contents but the SFX linking software can be used to locate full-text either in another online database or in a print holding in the library catalogue. In this database SFX is activated by clicking on the "Links" icon located beneath each citation.

Web of Science is an amalgamation of 3 citations databases including .....

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI): 1992-present
• Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED): 1992-present
• Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI): 1992-present

These databases can be searched individually or together, and can be used to locate articles by a range of criteria. They can also be used to locate citing articles (ie articles that have cited a specific reference).

There is no full-text of the articles but the SFX linking software can be used to locate full-text either in another online database or in a print holding in the library catalogue. In this resource SFX is activated by clicking on the "Links" icon located beneath each citation.

• The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

• The Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines.

• The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

SAGE Journals Online is the platform providing online full-text access to the approximately 485 journals published by SAGE. These journals are in the subject areas of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology, and Medicine.

CSU staff and students have some full-text access to most of the journals in this database.

The platform allows for searching within individual journal titles or across the whole database, and for browsing journals by title, or articles by discipline. The My Tools feature allows for customising the product, including creating alerts, saving citations and searches, and setting up “My Favourite Journals”.

All SAGE journal content is peer-reviewed with 46% of journals ranked in the Thomson Scientific 2005 Journal Citation Reports®.

Coverage varies according to each journal, but extends as far back as 1879.

ScienceDirect contains over 1700 Elsevier Science journals, most from 1996 forward and some from 1993 forward. New titles are added on a regular basis.

ScienceDirect also contains full-text journals from other participating publishers.

ScienceDirect currently currently offers the full text of journals from AIChE, CRC Press, and ASM International, and either host or link to the full text content of Cell Press titles. It is the goal of ScienceDirect to offer subscribers an electronic full text "library" on a scale greater than anything previously available, containing content from a variety of leading STM publishers. For a complete list of publishers on ScienceDirect, see Participating Publishers.

CSU does not subscribe to all the full text titles included in ScienceDirect.

Wiley InterScience is a database of journals published by Wiley-Blackwells Publishing.

CSU has access to the bulk of this collection in full-text – nearly 1300 journals. Users can search the collection using a simple or advanced search, and can browse by title or subject area.

Subjects covered range across all disciplines: Business, Education, Law, Medicine, Science, Social Sciences, and the Humanities.

Coverage dates vary with title.

Note: CSU previously had access to this material under the separate listings of Blackwell Synergy, and Wiley InterScience. On I July 2008 Blackwell Publishing merged with John Wiley & Sons, and all Wiley-Blackwell’s online products are now provided in a single online platform.

Meditext is an Australian indexing and full text database with access to scanned images of journal articles on all aspects of health and medicine, with an emphasis on clinical medicine and paraprofessional fields.

Other source documents include conference proceedings, government reports, selected books, and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) session reports (to 1996).

Coverage: 1968 - . Full text coverage (from 90 comprehensively indexed journals): 1995 - .

Includes more than 1200 peer reviewed full text journals and a growing number of online books, including the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Subject areas include Education, Mathematics, Medicine, Science and Technology. Coverage varies.

Please note: CSU Library doesn't have full access to all SpringerLink articles. You can tell whether or not you can access an article by looking at the square next to the record:

= Full access
= No access

Ingenta is a database of current article summaries from more than 20,000 multidisciplinary journals with links to the full text of over 4,500 titles. The database can be searched for free.

CSU subscribes to a limited number of full-text journals via Ingenta.

For journals to which CSU does not subscribe, users can, for the majority of articles, choose a pay-per-view option, with electronic, fax, or Ariel delivery from Ingenta.

Health & Society Database is a subset of Australian Family & Society Abstracts (FAMILY), produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. FAMILY indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families, so this subset database contains material on health policy and services as they relate to Australian people and families.

Specific subjects include: the health and well being of families and individuals; health policy; health services; quality of life, morbidity, mortality and life expectancy; mental health and illness; health issues of particular concern to the aged, children and youth; Aboriginal health; pregnancy, birth; ethical aspects of health such as those surrounding abortion, euthanasia and reproductive technologies; health education and promotion; health administration; and economic issues.

The database excludes documents of a clinical nature. Coverage is from 1980 - .

Clinical Reference Systems is a series of "Advisors" covering 9 major health areas. Each "Advisor" contains hundreds of short, plain language, consumer-level essays, many with images, on topics within that health area.

These 9 health areas are:

• adult health
• behavioral health
• cardiology
• eye
• medication information
• pediatric health
• senior health
• sports medicine
• women's health.

MIMS Online is the web version of the MIMS prescribing information for pharmaceuticals available in Australia. It contains both abbreviated prescribing information, which is equivalent to the MIMS Bi-Monthly (a paper product), and full prescribing information, which is equivalent to the MIMS Annual (a paper product). It also contains product images, and consumer medicines information (MIMS CMI).

The database offers access to information on over 4,500 prescription and non-prescription drugs.

MIMS Online has full search capabilities on either a single value or across multiple or advanced search criteria. It also allows browsing of the product information by Therapeutic Class. Other database features include a Favourites List of pharmaceutical products, and management of most recent search results.

The database is updated several times a year.

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.

MEDLINE is recognized as the premier index of biomedical literature, and includes allied health fields, plus the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to health care. It is produced by the United States National Library of Medicine.

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

Covers thousands of international journals from 1950 - .

MEDLINE is provided by Ovid in various date packages. The Ovid database MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations consists of In-Process records (records in preparation) from the National Library of Medicine and “PubMed-not-MEDLINE” records from NLM.

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.

APAIS-Health, produced by the National Library of Australia, is a subset of the APAIS database.  It is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from published material on  health and medicine in Australia, in particular the legal, social, economic and ethical aspects of health.

APAIS-Health comprehensively indexes approximately 250 journals. Overseas sources are also scanned for material on Australian subject matter. APAIS-Health also indexes very selectively from many other Australian journals and conference proceedings, as well as from overseas journals carrying articles with an Australian content.

Source documents include a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers, and books. Clinical articles are not indexed.

Coverage: 1978 – present.

The Rural and Remote Health Database (RURAL) is an Australian database of citations and article summaries and is produced by the Australian Rural Health Research Institute, Monash University.

Subjects include health issues and health-care in rural and remote areas, and the practice and educational needs of health providers, in particular medical practitioners and nurses, in rural and remote areas. The information is relevant to health providers, health planners, researchers, and members of rural and remote area communities.

Coverage from 1966 - .

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Bibliography (ATSIhealth), compiled by Neil Thomson and John Sutherland at the School of Health Studies, Edith Cowan University, is a bibliographic database that indexes published and unpublished material on Australian indigenous health.

Subject coverage: All records relate to Australian indigenous health and are in English. The records provided are not exhaustive and relate generally to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status rather than the social, historical, political or monetary aspects.

Warning: There is the possibility that some records contained in this database may contain references to deceased people, sacred or secret material, inappropriate terminology or offensive language, which, though unintentional, may cause distress to some people.

AusportMed includes material on all aspects of medical and health issues in Australian sport. Produced by the National Sport Information Centre, Australian Sports Commission.

Coverage from 1989 - .

Factiva is the successor to Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing, previously produced by Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive.

It is a global news and business information service. It covers the humanities, science, health, education and other subjects but has a focus on business, including business news, and company and industry research.

The database integrates content from newspapers (including The Age, and The SMH), Dow Jones newswires, business journals, market research reports, analyst reports, and websites. Much of the material is available in full-text.

Coverage varies, from 1980 - .

ANZ Newsstand is an online newspaper service provided by ProQuest and covering the full-text of Australian and New Zealand newspapers.

Titles from Fairfax (including The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald) and News Ltd (including The Australian, The Adelaide Advertiser, and The Herald Sun) are included, together with transcripts and wire feeds from ABC programs, and with leading regional and local newspaper titles from Australia and New Zealand.

Coverage varies, but most newspaper content is available from the mid- to late-nineties.

afr.com is the exclusive source of full-text articles from Fairfax Business Media publications including The Australian Financial Review and Business Review Weekly, but also over twenty other Fairfax news and information sources including the major Fairfax dailies and even The New York Times.

Content from sources such as The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The New York Times includes all (not just Business-related) material.

afr.com also includes a range of financial charts and investment tools.

Archival coverage extends as far back as 20 years. Publications and dates of coverage include:

The TVNews database is a new (August 2007) Informit Media database, available via Informit Online.

It indexes Australian television news, current affairs, and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format. All individual stories from a particular broadcast are indexed with a detailed synopsis. TVNews is updated daily, with stories appearing on an evening news broadcast generally being available for access the next morning.

The video for each story or documentary is available in WMV format as a progressive download, allowing viewing to begin before the total video file is transferred. Items range from under 30 seconds for short news stories, to over an hour for selected documentaries. Transcripts are NOT included.

Coverage is from August 2007- present.

This is an index to the archive of the Sydney Morning Herald spanning the years 1955 to 1990. The archive contains 820,000 pages from almost 13,000 issues. No new material is being added to the archive.

CSU does not have access to the full-text of the archive, so it is available here as an index only.

CSU staff and students would need to locate, or request, the full-text of articles in microfilm copies of the paper held at Bathurst, Thurgoona, and Wagga Campus Libraries.

More recent material from the Sydney Morning Herald is available online in full-text in the Factiva database (from September 1986) and the ANZ Newsstand database (from 1996).